Projects
This space is devoted to personal projects of mine, done either for fun, amusement, learning experience, or otherwise, in my free time.
Homebuilt Digital Picture Frame
This picture frame runs Linux, has WiFi, and displays any webpage.
How to make fake flames for halloween
Instead of using the traditional way by lighting up tissue paper with LEDs, I used cellophane and incandescent lights which seemed to be much more convincing...
FooPlot
A web-based, multilingual, 2-D and 3-D function grapher and plotter written in JavaScript and using SVG/ML.
Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea
Have you ever seen images of checks, credit cards, or statements with the numbers blurred out? Here I explain why this is not a good idea in theory.
Door unlocker
Abandon the world of keys and unlock your college dorm door with a password entered on a keyboard (or other means). This hack works entirely by string and does not require modifying any of the door or lock components, making your building managers happy.
Simmons LED Display
What do you do with the most powerful commercially available blue LED's? Outfit Simmons Hall with them to make a giant two-story 6x6 display.
PS/2 driver for PIC's
Use a standard PS/2 keyboard with your electronics projects using this driver or extending upon it.
Perl World Map Marker
A Perl script to mark a world map given a list of airports.
Facebook.pm
A Perl module for Facebook.
Turning MIT institute phones into pranks
Easily applicable to other places that issue standardized phones to students, etc. and have extras or broken phones lying around.
Fractals with a Video Camera
This is what happens if you point a video camera at the TV.
Playing with Fractals
The art in mathematics.
Motion-sensitive Birdfeeder
Photo highlights from a birdfeeder with a camera.
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