Brain Grinder! Built in 3 hours.

March 7th, 2011 | 2,708 views | 7 Comments » |

Instant.fm‘s not done yet, but check out what I whipped up in 3 hours using jQuery 1.5 deferreds, jQuery templates, and the Google Translate API!

Brain Grinder!

Update: Now, with the source code available on Github!

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1 Andreas Rønningen said at 2:38 am on March 8th, 2011:
Nice! Your work has been a huge inspiration to me! Keep up the good work!
2 Kevin said at 5:06 am on March 8th, 2011:
Legit. You sure have a knack for churning things out in 3 hours
3 Martin said at 9:59 am on March 8th, 2011:
Hey, not bad:) But, why not allow user to let the grinder to read out the word again? (now only read when user flip) Keep up your good works!
4 Rajesh said at 3:05 am on March 11th, 2011:
Nice Work! Keep it up!
5 charley said at 11:54 pm on April 23rd, 2011:
Inspirational, it’d be brilliant this have a “save the set” option, or an API to allow integration for Educational institutions…
6 Eric Reichert said at 7:58 am on April 24th, 2011:
A good feature would involve using the most common words from that language. That way the user wouldn’t have to pick the words.
7 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 10:44 pm on April 24th, 2011:
@ Eric – That’s a great idea. However, I’m not planning any development on BrainGrinder for the foreseeable future. I’m pretty busy with Instant.fm and my normal schoolwork.