I think I’d like to make a gyroscope if I end up going to the fab lab at gmu. Here is the link to one that includes design documents for one.
Category: Cool
Extreme Sports, Baby Cribs and Pipes
In the future we will have new extreme sports. We are already sort of seeing it with that person that did a jump from close to outer space. We will start to have ziplines that you can ride from the moon to the earth. We will surf/swim on the lakes of lava on the sun! We… Continue reading Extreme Sports, Baby Cribs and Pipes
Autonomous Smart Faucets
So, i want to make a device that will turn on and off the bathroom sink for me… Basically I’m too lazy to turn off the sink while i’m brushing my teeth. So, I want to connect a RP to a Kinect/leapmotion to a couple motors that can move the knobs. Then it would be… Continue reading Autonomous Smart Faucets
Price Surging and Bounty Hunting
So, it seems like uber might have a bounty type pricing model. They have this system of price surging. This we also found doesn’t work for adjusting the bounty. I thought that maybe it would provide a method to get agents to go after the right tasks, it doesn’t. However, it does give me hope that… Continue reading Price Surging and Bounty Hunting
Power grid for shipping containers
Shocks in shipping containers that would charge batteries that would allow for gps tracking of all of the containers. Also, when stacked they could essentially distribute the electricity. Harvesting the energy from the force of tons of pressure would be interesting. Also, they could be very safe batteries!! You could use Lightsail storage. Then it would be… Continue reading Power grid for shipping containers
Computational Sciences and Informatics
Another PhD in Computational Sciences and Informatics. I wonder if I could pick one of these up then after I get my PhD in CS and have a job. They have a quantum information science area and I have always been interested in being able to program and think about problems with quantum computers. Especially with… Continue reading Computational Sciences and Informatics
Travel and Architecture
There should be an app that will tell you your personal expected travel time at any user given day and time not just the current conditions and average driving time given speed limits etc. It could be based off of your past history of driving. So, basically it would need to be a phone app… Continue reading Travel and Architecture
Smart grid dataset from UMASS
I just found http://traces.cs.umass.edu/index.php/Smart/Smart. UMASS has a nice set of data that can be used for doing stuff with the smart grid. Might be interesting.
Botball 2015
I’m going to be a mentor again for Botball. This time I’m partnering with David, Kevin and Stephen and we are mentors for the middle school that David helped at last year. So, hopefully that means we will have more success than I had last year with Kramer middle school. This weekend is the intro/get… Continue reading Botball 2015
JUnit and TestNG
I just got finished some code refactoring and a major rearchitecturing of bounties to be more ammenable to unit tests. Which I, for lack of time, unfortunately didn’t do. But, now that I have a bit of time and its for a class I’m going to start adding them. Junit has always been my goto… Continue reading JUnit and TestNG