If you subscribe to my youtube channel, you might know that I’ve been working on a project called reacXion.  Last week, we finished a working breadboard prototype of the project, with a simple sample program running.  Check it out in the video below!  I had initially hoped to get this finished before heading back to [...]

I’m no artist, but I do try really really hard to appreciate art, and I do enjoy a good museum visit. And, while I might suck a painting, sculpting, drawing, and singing, I’m pretty good at building stuff. My girlfriend (an English major), is by no means a geek like me, but she loves art, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]