Projects

• Chocolate Making

  

  Creating chocolate candies in fun shapes using alginate, silicon, clay, vacuum thermo-forming, and more.
  July, 2022

• Geiger Dice

  

  A "truly" random dice RNG based on Radioactive Decay (a quantum process)
  July, 2022

• Graffiti Robot

  

  A robot that paints graffiti!
  Fall, 2019

• Hydroponics Robot

  

  A robot that monitors and maintains a hydroponic rig
  Fall, 2019 - Present

• Square-1: A Theoretical Perspective

  

  My journey and technique for solving the Square-1 puzzle from scratch, with no prior knowledge of the puzzle.
  Nov 12, 2023

• Custom ASIC

  

  A small proof-of-concept custom silicon chip design fabbed through Tiny Tapeout.
  Oct 29, 2023

• Fair Dice Tester (Pt. 1)

  

  I made an automated dice rolling machine to test whether a die is fair or not (1-day build). This is part 1, which covers only the mechanical build (not computer vision).
  Nov 19, 2022

• Projector Screen

  

  For a one-day build, I made a retractable projector screen using an aluminum tube, a commercial wrinkle-resistant projector sheet, and some misc. items.
  July 18, 2022

• Bulb Changer

  

  A tool to change high-up chandelier lights
  Jan 1, 2022

• diffvg+CLIP: Generating Painting Trajectories from Text

  

  Combining diffvg with CLIP, we can produce painting trajectories given a text prompt.
  Dec. 9, 2021

• Break Timer

  

  A Chrome extension to remind you to take breaks. Created for Virginia Pan (and as an excuse to learn how to create Chrome extensions - certainly much better break timers exist)
  May 25, 2020

• BibTeX-to-HTML Citation Generator

  

  An AWS-powered online citation generator. Upload a bibtex file and copy/paste the formatted citations.
  Mar. 27, 2020

• Cheer Me Up

  

  An Alexa skill to cheer you up using pre-recorded audio messages from loved ones.
  Jan 2020

• Panoramic Stitching

  

  Basic image transformations using homographies
  Oct. 18, 2019

• Semi-dense Reconstruction Using Surfels

  

  A project to replicate the results of Wang, Gao, & Shen's 2019 ICRA paper (image credit to their paper)
  Oct, 2019

• Seam Carving

  

  Rudimentary implementation of scene carving from Avidan's 2011 paper for my CS6476 project
  Sept. 12, 2019

• FPGA Robot Racers

  

  A fun class project using FPGAs to create a robot game involving wireless differential drive robots and goals.
  Dec 2021

• Party Lights

  

  LED strip syncronized to the music for the ultimate party experience
  Sept. 23, 2018

• DIY Shelf

  

  A 5' tall shelf made for cheap: Tutorial
  Feb 18, 2018

• Secret Santa v2

  

  An upgrade of the secret santa site from last year featuring OAuth account authentication, SSL certificates, and a secure, cloud-based database powered by Google firebase and running from a static web page.
  Dec. 25, 2017

• Solar Benches

  

  A project to install solar powered phone chargers and night-time LED lighting on campus benches.
  Spring, 2016 - Spring, 2018

• Personal Website

  

  The making of this personal website (how meta...) to tell the world about what I'm up to!
  Summer, 2017 - December, 2017

• MagSpoof

  

  A spin-off of Samy Kamkar's project using an electromagnetic coil to simulate a card swipe for my Duke student ID card.
  Summer, 2017

• Secret Santa

  

  My first website - designed to remotely assign gifters and giftees for a secret santa ring amongst my close friends
  December, 2016

• Workshop/​Shed

  

  I designed and built a workshop from scratch in my backyard as a space for my sister and I.
  August, 2016

• Doodlebot

  

  A mobile, wireless writing and plotting robot.
  Summer, 2016

• Illuminated Clipboard

  

  A prototype backlit clipboard. My first experience with laser cutting.
  April, 2016

• Rube Goldberg

  

  A Rube Goldberg / marble machine - style project for my freshman year intro engineering class.
  December, 2015

• Bike Basket

  

  A thifty bike basket made in a pinch
  November, 2015

• DIY Thermostat Controller

  

  Shoddy IoT thermostat controller hack for my dorm room
  Sept. 14, 2018