Archive for the ‘Assorted Hacks and Mods’ Category


SudoGlove – Hardware Control Using Hand Gestures

  Posted May 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Update 5/19/10 – I have uploaded the final report, code, schematics, laser-cutting files, and sound effects!  Read on to download them. Introducing the SudoGlove Control System!  This is my final project for INFO4320 at Cornell Engineering.  It was developed by me and three other students: Joe Ballerini, Tiffany Ng, and Alex Garcia.  You get geek [...]

3D-Printed Glowing Puzzle

  Posted May 4th, 2010 | No Comments »

Ahh yes, the joys of college – awesome people, parties, concerts, quadrangles (they are important!), problem sets, final exams, and of course, awesome prototyping equipment.  Take for example the objet 3D-Printer.  We use one in Cornell’s Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL), where I am employed as an undergraduate researcher.  But the information sciences department also has [...]

Arduino-Powered Jack-in-the-Box Toy

  Posted April 3rd, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Remember the last design project I posted?  Well this second one is for the same Physical Computing class, but is totally different.  This time, the assignment was to create a Jack-in-the-Box toy.   To make mine unique I added password protection and an alarm system to the box.  Check out the video below to see what [...]

Physically Display Website Statistics via an Arduino + Multicolor LED

  Posted March 5th, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Behold! My newest little project. This one isn’t as complicated as some of my other creations, but it’s still a pretty cool little device that I put together.  I made this as a project for my INFO4320 class at Cornell: “Intro to Rapid Prototyping and Physical Computing”.  The assignment was to use a multicolor LED [...]

RoboClaw v1 featured on Hackaday

  Posted October 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

If you don’t read hackaday already, you should be, because it’s probably the best blog around.  Anyways, they’ve recently featured my roboclaw on their website: go check it out! Here’s some of my other stuff that’s been on Hackaday: http://hackaday.com/2008/07/14/deepnote-guitar-hero-bot/ http://hackaday.com/2009/05/17/nerf-centry-gun-with-image-recognition/