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Colors of the Internet
Allison and I had been thinking about decomposing scenes, art, and geometries into representative colors, textures, and features. Then, during an inspiring walk around the MOMA, I spotted a woodblock print (below) by Sherrie Levine. In her prints Meltdown, she decomposes paintings by Duchamp, Kirchner, Mondrian, and Monet into their constituent colors. Can you guess […]
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I Graduated!
It’s been quiet for too long around here… since my last post, my thesis was accepted September 20, 2012 and I received my diploma early February 2012. The title of my thesis was “Low dimensionality spectral sensing for low cost material identification and discrimination”. It really took a lot out of me. I learned a […]
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Flying Android Project
In 2009, I was challenged by [govt agency] via GTRI to develop an Unmaned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) which is piloted by a smartphone. In particular, only the sensors on the phone may be used and the flight controller must run on the smartphone. Custom electronics were allowed to interface the phone to the airframe (PHY) […]
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Phased Array RADAR
This IAP I had the opportunity to participate in a phased array RADAR course taught by MIT Lincoln Labs. Our team was named winner (best imagery) by the director of MIT LL, Dr. Eric Evens. I’ll follow up with a more detailed post, until then, click through for a video.
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T+V
This week, with help from Alex Olwal and Julia Ma, I finally managed to scratch a project itch that has been lingering since the spring. The installation uses crowd sourcing to actively build a tangible visualization of attendee demographics. A world map covered by transparent LEGO baseplates stands at a conference, and bowls of transparent […]
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RoboCup
Project Overview For the past three years, I have been the team leader for the Georgia Tech RoboJackets Small Size RoboCup team. RoboCup is an international robotic soccer competition designed to drive research in robotics, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence and the systems which compose those fields. The stated goal of the RoboCup Federation is to […]
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4D Tracker
Introduction There are approximately 515 million cases of malaria every year, of which roughly three million cases are fatal [5]. To combat the spread of malaria, often the carriers (mosquitoes) are targeted. In the past, mosquito larvae have been attacked with varying degrees of success, but sometimes with notable environmental impact (one solution involves flooding […]
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SeaWolf
During the Spring and early Summer of 2009 I developed two 10.5 foot long, 325 pound unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). My role was technical leader, I oversaw all design of the vehicles. Underwater vehicle construction remains somewhat of a black art where effective design principles are often found through trial and error rather than analytically. […]
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Monkey
Presently the only platforms to study human robotics interaction are expensive custom platforms which are developed over the course of several years at a very high development cost. Thanks to rapid growth in the toy industry, and the dramatic economies of scale, robotic toys have become available at very low cost for the functionality they […]