Personal projects
FPV drones (2021)
I build and fly first-person-view (FPV) drones – manually piloting while viewing a remote video feed through remote goggles.
Mystic Merkaba light sculpture (2019)
“Mystic Merkaba” is a light sculpture inspired by sacred geometry. Sound-reactive, 3D-printed, with 1,080 addressable LEDs. I originally built this in April-…
Smart Pullup Bar (2017)
I built an automatic pullup counter for our office pull-up bar. You scan your work badge, then it senses and tallies your pullups.
DIY Core Cooling Glove (2015)
The CoreControl is a device designed at Stanford, which can supposedly improve athletic recovery by cooling down the body’s core temperature. They postulate …
Wall Hanging LED Board (2014)
I built a huge wall-mounted LED matrix, 2’x4’ with 20x10 LEDs, and wrote various visual effects for it. I was inspired by several other LED builds like the P…
Multi-Room Audio Control with Raspberry Pi (2014)
I put together a whole-home audio controller using the $35 Raspberry Pi computer and some custom hardware and software. It can be controlled from any mobile …
Anagram Thief, an online multiplayer word game (2011)
I built an exciting, real-time multiplayer game where you steal each other’s letters to create as many words as possible, as fast as possible.
Locra, a community service hub (2010)
I co-founded Locra, a site where volunteers connect with their teammates in service projects, and build a profile of their “service footprint.”