So, for my Build 18 project this year, my partner Alex and I wanted to do something cool and awesome. I had a few ideas floating around, and I had seen Nirav Patel’s post on the subject of virtual reality gaming with the PNI SpacePoint Fusion. Alex thought it was a good idea, and so [...]

My junior year at Carnegie Mellon is going really well! I thankfully only have 2 finals this semester, and so I’m filling my free time with a little bit of long-lost creativity. I’ve been wanting to make a 3D printout of a Sierpinski Pyramid for a while, but struggled on finding the correct modeling software [...]

One of the brothers in my campus ministry offered to cut my hair this weekend, except it had one catch: their Conair hair clipper wasn’t working! A few hours later I had the rogue clipper in my hands and proceeded to take apart the case to peer  at what was inside. Seeing no burn marks [...]

Hello again from Pittsburgh! I spent some time over the last few months continuing my electronics tinkering, and I’ve successfully completed two new gadgets along with a friend from school, Billy Keyes, as part of a week-long extravaganza at CMU called Build 18. It’s for ECE majors exclusively, and turned out to be a lot [...]

Hello again everyone! It’s been a few <cough>months</cough> since I’ve last made an entry on my blog here, but I’m glad to have a little bit of time now to make a quick update. I’m nearing the end of my sophomore fall semester at CMU, and it’s been a totally rocking ride. This summer I [...]