Team Members
Ho Jie Feng Chai Yi Chen Sim Justin
Special Prizes we wish to be considered for
Most Socially Useful Award
Inspiration
We were unhappy with the lack of Net Neutrality in the 21st Century and wanted to change this, by providing a means of data transmission over a high data traffic network - in the case of this project, Whatsapp.
What it does
This project shows that even through the whitelisting of specific applications do not effectively restrict one's Internet access, as one can, just as in our project, make use of high data traffic applications and websites in order to improve their Internet access to lower data traffic ones.
How we built it
We researched the available APIs and libraries available for each platform and see which one suits our needs. We then combined a network interface driver with the libraries to send packets back and forth. Libraries used: pytun, yowsup and PyQt4
Challenges we ran into
Alternative messaging applications contained rate limits that prevented effective communication from working, thereby limiting the options of messaging platforms that we had. Also, due to the high load of our communication, the Whatsapp module frequently encounter obscure errors.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Almost being able to host a LAN Minecraft game over Whatsapp. We could do SSH/image/video transfer over our custom communication system.
What we learned
How to use Python messenger APIs as well as how to develop a graphical user interface.
What's next for BY - Data Transmission using Whatsapp
To extend this to other possible messenger applications in order to create a modular communication framework.
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