Side Projects
TARA: Totally Awesome Recipe Assistant
A Meteor-based voice assistant web application for cooking with recipes.
Stanford Marguerite iPhone App
A free, open-source iPhone app for the Stanford Marguerite shuttle bus system.
Utility Knife
A Flask-based web app for visualizing Dropbox space/file usage as a treemap.
Lightning Rod
(project frozen for now)
A free, cross-platform Dropbox client written in Java that runs on a flash drive.
Teammates: Evan Benshetler, Mike Chen, Casey Conley, Bill Etter
Awards:
- Finalist, AngelHack Hackathon, Spring 2012
HAWK: Helicopter Aircraft Wielding Kinect
A quadrotor equipped with a Microsoft Kinect that creates 3D maps of buildings.
Teammates: Kelsey Duncombe-Smith, Bill Etter, Paul Gurniak, Matt Hale, Alfredo Muniz, Teddy Zhang
Advisor: Rahul Mangharam
Awards:
- 2nd Place, Cornell Cup Embedded Systems Competition, 2012
- Honorable Mention, University of Pennsylvania ESE Senior Design, 2011-2012
enunciate.me
A Django-based web app/widget that helps others learn how to pronounce your name correctly.
Teammates: Casey Conley, Varun Sampath
Awards:
- Best Market Potential Award, PennApps Hackathon, Spring 2012
uWave
A microwave hacked to play YouTube videos, completed in under 40 hours.
Teammates: Varun Sampath, Ben Shyong, Teddy Zhang
Awards:
- First Place, PennApps Hackathon, Fall 2011
SMS Person Finder
A crowd-sourced, text-message interface for Google’s Person Finder disaster victim database, completed in under 24 hours.
Teammates: Ted Lee + many others, see README
Awards:
- First Place, Random Hacks of Kindness Silicon Valley Hackathon, June 2011
AutoPlug
A prototype automotive architecture for plug-n-play services.
Teammates: Gabe Torres, Teddy Zhang
Advisor: Rahul Mangharam
Awards:
- Grand Prize, World Embedded Software Contest, 2010
- Best Presentation, Rachleff Scholars Research Symposium, 2010
NEStalgia
A wireless rifle controller for the game Cabal on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Teammate: Evan Benshetler
SEPTA Now
A Rails-based real-time visualization of SEPTA’s regional rail trains, completed in under 40 hours.
Teammates: Varun Sampath, Ben Shyong, Teddy Zhang
Awards:
- Student Choice Award, PennApps Hackathon, Fall 2010