Peer-to-peer Data Transmission for Facebook
This prototype app reduces Facebook data consumption by sharing directly via peer-to-peer connections. This could help people use Facebook in areas of the world where network connectivity is poor.
This prototype app reduces Facebook data consumption by sharing directly via peer-to-peer connections. This could help people use Facebook in areas of the world where network connectivity is poor.
Implemented a series of algorithms to make a LIDAR-and-camera-equipped robot find colorful targets, in collaboration with Victoria Preston and Christina Fong.
I worked on this as a final project for an interpreters course.
I created novel and fun gameplay concepts by rapidly prototyping games that use interesting input and feedback systems, such as heart rate monitors, 3D tracking, and VR. (In collaboration with Julian Ceipek.)
A popular card game called Dominion contains many cards and expansion. I made this webapp to allow people to randomize and save dominion decks. It's designed to be fast, to be easy to use, and to look good on any screen size. It has a RESTful API.
This project was an exercise in interaction design. We designed and built a prototype app from the ground up, from user interviews, to paper prototypes, usability studies, and front-end web design.
Team: Cypress Frankenfeld, Dana Lee, Noam Rubin, Sharon Tam.
Goal: To build a glider capable of autonomous flight.
Outcome: We achieved a closed loop autopilot capable of turning and using PID control with accelerometers to level out again before landing. In addition, we built a simulation to better understand the mechanics and motion of a glider.
Team: Cypress Frankenfeld, Laurel Kroo, Theo Thompson, and Eric Westman.
Three teammates and I built a payload with cameras and other various sensors, attached it to a weather balloon, and let it go. It ascended over 80,000 feet before bursting, and parachuting to the ground. We retrieved it and got some beautiful pictures of near-space
As part of a NASA internship, three teammates and I worked on a device that transmits digital signals via x-rays. We made a proof of concept, and a demo that can be used to demonstrate the capabilities of x-ray transmission. In the future, this could be used to transmit large amounts of information over vast distances through space.
I helped design a control algorithm to cool an image sensor on a small satellite as part of the NASA internship.
Think of fridge magnets. You can arrange them to make fun sentences! What if the magnets were "smart," and gave you suggestions for more words to add? Using QR codes on word-blocks, we did just that.
As part of a team, I designed and built a prototype armadillo toy. It was able to curl and uncurl, roll while in the curled position, and move along the floor while in the uncurled position. It is all radio-controlled and driven by two servos. You can see the prototype demo video on youtube.
Goal: investigating the effects of abstinence-only sex education and comprehensive sex education on pregnancy rates, unwanted pregnancy rates, and age of first pregnancy for young adults and teens.
While I was interning at the physics department of the University of Kansas, I compared the outputs of two magnetic monopole simulation programs. Magnetic monopole simulations are helpful for physicists who are searching for magnetic monopoles. You can read the monopole simulation and detection paper that some of my work was incorporated into.
I make software for 3D CT Scanners.
I'm helping climate researchers create interactive dashboards to visualize climate data.
I worked at HubSpot as a backend software engineer on the SEO tools and authorization stack.
I was recruited to help a team at Intrepid work on an Android app.
I worked at Onshape on their Android App.
I worked at Sookbox, creating a home media server.
I worked as a web dev, front and back ends, using django. Most of my job involved displaying data in an easy-to-read way.
I interned with NASA and worked on a couple exciting projects. My teammates and I helped build an x-ray system to transmit digital data and a thermoelectric cooler controller for a pico-satellite.
I helped out at the IT department at my college, fixing broken computers.
I interned with professor Dave Besson at the University of Kansas to help compare some magnetic monopole simulations.
I designed and taught a children's tap dance class at the Lawrence Arts Center.
I taught piano to children at the Lawrence Piano Studio under the guidance of piano instructor Eric Sakumura.
BS in Engineering with a Concentration in Computing, 2014.
A tiny, new, engineering school that is experimenting with new types of project and team-based education.