ideas for a unique (or semi-unique) application of audio fingerprinting - project

I am a final year computer undergrad student looking for a unique (or semi-unique) application for audio fingerprinting, for my finally year project. My original idea was to have a program to figure out what song a user was humming, thru the use of audio fingerprint. But I did a search, and found out somebody had already implemented it (perfectly I might add). Any suggestions on how I can tweak it (it doesnt have to be TOTALLY new) or derive some thing along similar field will be VERY MUCH appreciated.
P.S. Thank you in advance.
(P.P.S. I don’t have to do a full implementation, just the core part or an essential part of my choosing)

Last.fm has an amazing API and song fingerprinting script. Maybe you could extend their app to do something different?

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What IoT project to develop modules connected by BLE was funded on Kickstarter?

I apologize in advance. I'm almost certain this question may not be appropriate here, but there doesn't seem to be a specific place on SO for such questions, so I've decided that as a last ditch effort, I'll ask on the main site. Please don't be (too) angry with me....
I'm looking for a specific IoT project, that was developing modules connected by BLE. They were independent modules, say just a speaker, on a coin-sized die connected to each other or a computer via BLE. The project seems to have been succesfully funded on Kickstarter, with an SDK and shipping to the backers, but I can't find them again. I've been searching for a day and a half, but I can't remember for the life of me what they're called. I've searched through my chrome bookmarks, but the computer I was using at the time was a lab system, so I most likely wasn't logged into Google, and those systems are wiped every week. The project was probably from 2014, and they kinda advertised themselves as an easy way to learn HW/SW, and the SDK might have had Code block drag and drop, like Scratch. No combination of search terms that I can think of on Google is bringing up the results I want. Please help, if you know this project, or a specific way to find it.
I'm fairly certain this question will get moved, but before it does, I hope SO's vast and vastly informed community will be able to help me or point me in the right direction....
After days of searching and going through possibly most of the IoT style projects out there, I finally found the one I was looking for: it's SAM Labs. If anyone wants to know, it's probably one of the cheaper options for creating a limited use remote application.

Implementing Copy Protection in a Desktop Mac App

I'm looking for an easy to use serial-number registration system for a small Mac App I've created. Frankly, I'm not overly concerned about pirates, but I do want a way to have a screen show up with 'Register/buy' options, and have a serial number that is related to the username/email. So, perhaps some sort of MD5 with salt? I've always heard that lots of programmers use some sort of RPN to do it, but, frankly, I have no idea how to create a serial number that would be related to registration information.
Anyways, I'd really prefer a plugin module (kinda like sparkle :) ) that would handle the registration for me, but, in lieu of that, I'd happily take some nice documentation that will lead the way to creating something like this.
Thanks much!

Core Data need help(beginner)

I trying to make a Web Service application which will run when the program is on the background too and i will fetch my data from tree different URLs from my server. I read almost all of this and also this tutorials and even i watched CS193p Core Data Lectures too but still i cant get started with coding. This is my first Iphone(ipad) application, i use NSJSONSerialization for parsing. Can anyone please explain a little
How many ManagedObjectContext s i need to declare?
How to save data which come from different classes to the same entity?
(The mos important) From where to get started with coding..
I think this is a kind of not wanted questioning but i really need help. Thanks in advance
I would suggest taking one of the core data sample apps from the ADC site and looking at how it's structured. You may even be able to adapt the code to your application. CoreRecipes is a great sample to learn from.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/iPhoneCoreDataRecipes/Introduction/Intro.html

Record Sound in Cocoa Example Please!

I've been scouring both this site and the net in general for an example cocoa app that uses QTKit or Audio Queue and actually works.
Unfortunately, I can't find anything that fits the above description.
All I want to do is get a simple audio recording app so I can learn how it works!
Please, I have put alot of time into this already so don't point me to Apple Dev. It is just too dense for my simple brain.
And yes, there is a dupe or two here, but none of them actually produced a satisfactory outcome.
I am desperate! I feel like this should be WAY easier. I am starting to worry about getting deeply into Cocoa because the developer documentation is really not good.
Help!
It's not reasonable to ask people not to point to the documentation, especially when there is a step-by-step tutorial for creating a simple recording app with QTKit therein. It's titled "Creating a Simple Capture and Recording Application" with about ten steps (with code). If that's not enough, the Sample Code section gives you "MyRecorder," which is a ready-to-go media recorder using QTKit.
It's far easier to get help if you a) don't limit people by telling them not to refer you to a resource and, b) start with some standard resource and explain what it is that's confusing you or that's not working for you, so we have a starting point from which to offer help.

Any code samples open-source-engines, or open source hex tile games, references for writing Hex Tile based Games?

Using other questions on here I found Amit's Page on Games including a section on Hex Tiles which also links to a game coding wiki here.
I am looking for suggestions:
(a) libraries, engines or code samples in any language. I have found one in python, PGU+pygame, but looking for more.
(b) open source hex-tile tactics or strategy games.
Because google can find things for me, what I'm hoping is that you have actually used one. So if you googled and then posted, then this is nothing better than let-me-google-that-for you. Much appreciated if (i) you have used it, (ii) seriously, any language at all is okay, C/C++, python, java, flash/flex, whatever.
Related question and another related question but .net
Battle For Wesnoth is a complete, open-source, turn-based strategy hex-based game. Its written in C++. Quite a good game too.
I'm sure there would be something valuable in there, although I've only have a brief browse of the source myself.
I used PGU a number of years ago to make a hex based game for PyWeek, you can take a look at the code if you want to. :)
http://www.pyweek.org/e/PySwec/
I've got a more updated version at home which is quite a bit better but unless you actually want to play the game you should be fine with that. :)
Based on another question here on stackoverflow, there is XConq, an open source turn based tile game.