Teasy

A tiny tool to make teaching easier.

Teasy allows to select an application window to be mirrored into an external monitor window. You can choose the application to mirror by using the control and preview window. I use it during live programming classes, where I project only the IDE, keeping my cluttered desktop for myself :).

Features

You have a customizable laser pointer, which appears whenever you hover on the actual application window

You can also hide temporarily the app from the main monitor window and show a clock (with a configurable timer) instead. I find this very useful to signal when the lecture is going to be resumed during a break.

Todo

• Tests
• MOAR tests
• Add a live twitter stream (with moderation). In this way students can participate by sending questions which can then be shown in realtime.
• Add twitter polls.

Contributing

The makefile exposes all the targets you may need to develop and release a new app. Here's the description of the targets:

target                         help
------                         ----
help                           This help dialog.
all                            = release
release                        cleanup and build local electron app
release-run                    run local electron app
release-build-modules          build just js modules
release-build-native           build just native cpp modules (coregraphics stuff)
release-package                package local app into an OSX .app (`release` directory)
release-on-github              To be fixed..
release-clean                  cleanup local app
stop                           stop development server
show                           start development server (compile and hot reload)

Prerequisites

• Install opencv:

  brew install opencv

Licensing

The MIT License (MIT)

Teasy: Copyright (c) 2015 V. Zaccaria

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Credits

• Concept, design and implementation: Vittorio Zaccaria
• Original Electron Boilerplate C. T. Lin