Tech Innovation
Throughout the first semester in Tech Innovation, I have worked on many projects. From
small scale projects like working on LED dot matrices on Arduinos with Nikolas Anctil (and
later Michael DeLay), to working on the Pumpkin Toss of 2011 trebuchet, the first semester
of the Design and Build class was fun and filled with exciting projects. Click on the
following headings to display the descriptions
- LED Matrix
One day, during Tech Innovation, Nikolas Anctil found an LED Matrix with 5x7
LEDs. He decided to figure out how to hook it up and use it to display a letter.
After he had figured out how to display a letter, I decided to take the challenge
of making a GUI that could generate the necessary Arduino code to display whatever
the user desired. At first, I created the program using Python, but as I got more
interested in HTML5 and Javascript, I recreated my program using HTML5's canvas
element and Javascript. The features include being about to set the frames per
second, a mini display of already generated frames, and being able to shift the
display using the arrow keys as well as invert the display and clear it using
buttons on the keyboard.
- Music Site
One day, when I was listening to my iPod, I came up with the idea of making a
music site on my website to be able to stream my library anywhere I went (that had
internet of course). This single project was probably the largest project I have
worked on (in terms of time I spent on it). I wrote the code for the entire page
from scratch, and its features include dynamic selection list of the artists, albums,
and songs, and there is playlist support as well as selection of a random song. I
also added the option to download songs, but only for allowed users. Guest users
(username "guest" password "guest") only can stream the songs. I spent more than 50
hours total on this page.
- Morse Code
As a small side-project, I decided to make a page to translate to and from Morse
Code. It changes the opposite box of text as you type, and it can even play the morse
code using 1000Hz tone for the sound. After I created this page on my site, I used it
to teach myself morse code.
- Polynomial Interpolation
- Smoke Bomb
- STGCP.net