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This is a collection of mini-projects, thoughts, and ideas that I happen to stumble upon in my everyday life.

Segfault Coredumps

Apr. 21, 2022

Instructions on accessing coredumps from c++ segfaults.
Calculating Cost of Death Risk

Apr. 15, 2022

Cost of travel including costs due to productivity loss and chance of death.
Miller-Rabin Primality Test

Jan. 28, 2022

Cool algorithm for testing if a number is prime.
Chandelier Bulb Changer

Jan. 1, 2022

3D print a tool to change high-up chandelier lights
diffvg+CLIP

Dec. 9, 2021

Generating Painting Trajectories from Text
BibTeX-to-HTML Citation Generator

Mar. 27, 2020

An AWS-powered online citation generator.
Hydroponics Robot

Feb. 26, 2020

A robot that monitors and maintains a hydroponic rig
Panoramic Stitching

Oct. 18, 2019

Basic image transformations using homographies
Walking is worse than driving

Oct. 16, 2019

TIL: walking actaully has a higher carbon cost than driving!
More Tutorials

Sept. 28, 2019

My plan to be more useful to the world
Seam Carving

Sept. 12, 2019

Rudimentary implementation of scene carving from Avidan's 2011 paper for my CS6476 project.
Party Lights

Sept. 23, 2018

LED strip syncronized to the music for the ultimate party experience.
DIY Shelf

Feb. 18, 2018

Learn how to make a cheap, easy, portable 5' tall shelf from scratch!
Vacuum Chamber

Jan. 14, 2018

For the Cornea Project, I needed a way to remove bubbles from the silicon molds so I made a cheap, effective vacuum chamber.
Migrating to Netlify

Jan. 8, 2018

After some qualms with Google firebase, I decided to try out my hand with Netlify
Site Comments

Jan. 6, 2018

I thought it would be cool and easy to add a "comments" widget to the bottom select pages on my site.
Saving paper?

Jan. 3, 2018

I have been told my whole life that saving paper saves trees, but recently a professor brought up some interesting points...
Migrating to Google firebase

Dec. 30, 2017

After having had such a pleasant experience hosting my Secret Santa site with firebase, I decided to move the entire site over.
Migrating to Jekyll

Dec. 30, 2017

To clean up code and make site edits faster and more efficient, I switched over to Jekyll - a layout engine
Cost Analysis: Residential Heating

Dec. 28, 2017

During the winter, electric and natural gas heating are two prevalent methods of heating. Which is more cost effective?
Site Analytics

Sept. 27, 2017

I'm curious to see the traffic to this site.
Math Resources Page

Sept. 25, 2017

To aid students who attend my weekly math study group sessions, I decided to upload the worksheets and solutions online as an additional resource.
Restructuring Projects and Blog Pages

Sept. 18, 2017

There are some issues with the current "In Progress" and "Completed" sections of my "Projects" page. There are also some improvements to be made to this blog format.
iPhone Charger Cable Repair

Sept. 16, 2017

I had a few worn/broken iPhone charging cables and I thought it might be interesting to cut them open, see the wires inside, and maybe repair them. I was successful for 2/3 :)
Piano Keyboard Repair

Sept. 6, 2017

I bought a used keyboard last weekend only to find out the USB MIDI socket was broken! I bought a new port and fixed it up today.
Backpack Organizer

Sept. 4, 2017

An accordian-style folder system for my backpack.
Hello World!

Sept. 3, 2017

A test-er to make sure everything is working properly.