Capacitive Mailbox Combination Lock
A mailbox which only opens when the correct sequence of letters is touched on its side. Installed as a puzzle challenge in an escape room, it exists in a fu...
Projects
A list of some projects that I’ve completed, some I’m working on, and a few ideas that have yet to come to fruition. This page is as much for sharing my projects with others as it is a workspace for me to document what I’ve done and help plan what I have yet to do. So, as you browse through the various links below, keep in mind that they may be at differing levels of completeness/coherence.
Jedi Nightlight
An interactive 3D printed nighlight that reveals a hidden pattern when turned over.
Weather Reporting Shirt
A shirt that displays the current weather using a small screen, heat sensitive dye, and conductive thread.
Game of Simon Toy Hack
Repurposing a simple children’s toy into a more advanced game of memory and reflexes.
Kinect Charades
A game of hidden charades in which the guesser must determine the unseen performer’s pose through wearable tactile feedback.
RFID Magic Wand
A magic wand with an RFID tag in the tip, used to interact with a series of devices in an IoT environment.
City Lights from Windmills
An interactive installation with a stylized city skyline that reacts to the wind, blending low and high tech.
2048 Tilt Controller
A motion sensitive controller for the game 2048, built into a calculator.
Arduino Data Visualizer
A debug tool built in Processing for visualizing the analog and digital inputs of an Arduino.
Validating Complex Interval-Based Temporal Queries Over Streams
An analysis of range queries in a temporal database and the efficacy/efficiency of validating such queries.
TRIAGE Emergency Department Resource Allocation Tool
A data visualization tool designed to aid Emergency Departments during the triage process.
When Life Gives You Lemons, Plan to Open a Lemonade Stand!
Creating advanced game-playing agents for the Lemonade Stand Game, an annual competition run by Yahoo! Labs’s Martin Zinkevich.
Kinect Air Guitar
An air guitar that actually plays music using the Microsoft Kinect.
Lego Music Box
A Lego Mindstorms music box with interchangable music discs.