August 2009 This is an Arduino microcontroller that I wired into my car’s ECU and programmed to calculate the instantaneous/average miles per gallon of my 2002 Honda Civic. The circuit reads pulses from the Vehicle Speed Sensor and Fuel Injector wires. It is wired into my car via a USB cable. It’s pretty accurate once calibrated. My … Read more
July 2009 I soldiered an actual Intel 386 processor to my belt buckle (inspired by this Processor Belt Buckle), and have been wearing this almost everyday since! “… so nerdy that it’s trendy.” – Andrew Gibson
July 2009 I competed in the 2009 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, on the Georgia Tech RoboJackets Team. Our robot: Candi. I developed the computer vision algorithms to navigate an autonomous vehicle using only a vision camera. Our team ranked 6th place nationwide. Competition photos here. I wrote all of the vision and mapping code! The robot navigated using a single camera only. … Read more
September 2008 A project at GTRI FPTD I worked on involving combining a color vision system with a 2D laser projector. Case Study about the project here: Using Lasers to Identify Substandard Food. With Python and OpenCV, I got the system to find contours with the camera, and tell the laser to draw them in real-time. The goal was to … Read more
June 2008 I used a PIC microcontroller in a circuit to measure my car’s MPH. It measures the frequency of pulses from the Vehicle Speed Sensor, and converts it to miles-per-hour. A summer project involving programming a PIC micro controller to measure my Honda Civic’s MPH. The circuit I made measures the frequency of the pulses coming from … Read more
July 2005 This is a random collection of videos of me (black bike) and my friend, recorded via a digital camera one summer (and edited by me). I have done so much more cooler stuff on a bike that just never got to video. Maybe one day I’ll make another video. Be sure to watch the ‘wipeouts’ section … Read more
We can’t really change how much time we have – we can only alter where we put our attention. If you have a minute in a day gone wrong, you still have enough time. You are the creator of your reality. What you Desire becomes your Reality. It takes the whole of life to learn … Read more
I first saw this image (below) about the Reaction Range Model in a psychology book years ago. It really struck me, as I felt it somewhat explained my path of education. Basically, it proposes that a person’s genetic makeup determines the LIMITS on his or her IQ, and that environmental factors determine WHERE within this … Read more
Small screens suck. Even worse, once you get used to a high resolution screen, having to use anything smaller is torture. I find this to be true for desktop moniors, laptop screens, and even phones now (I don’t watch or own a TV, but I’m sure it applies there also). Having wide-screen is certainly nice, but please, … Read more
October 10th 2010 – a very interesting date, and a random day of procrastination from school! Installed Ubuntu 10.10 – so far, so good; it doesn’t seem too different than 10.04 though. I’ll update my fresh install script for 10.10 soon. Update: v0.3 works pretty well with Ubuntu 10.10; more features to be added soon! Took … Read more