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I’m one of Cornell’s 25 Most Mysterious Seniors
Each Fall, the Cornell Daily Sun features Cornell’s 25 “most interesting seniors” in its last issue of the semester. This year they decided to call us “mysterious” – noting that the group they chose might not be the ones stealing every headline, but they are are ones making a lasting[…]
Immortalized in Song
Yes, you heard me right. Atdiy, of the ZombieTech Podcast (I was their guest recently), wrote and recorded a lovely song about me battling zombified, 3D-Printed, PLA plastic. Be sure to give the podcast a quick listen if you haven’t yet – I discuss the tools I would use to[…]
Interdisciplinary Sustainability Student Summit
This event was featured in the Cornell Chronicle on 11/01/2011 This past weekend was the first annual Interdisciplinary Sustainability Student Summit (ISSS). I organized the event along with my fellow Cornell University Sustainable Design team leaders. The summit, held at the General Assembly in New York City’s Flatiron district, hosted[…]
Cornell Daily Sun Science Spotlight
I was recently profiled (along with Brian Shiffer – a fellow hacker and good friend) in the Cornell Daily Sun. You can read the whole article here. Both of us attended MakerFaire NYC and the Open Hardware Summit. I presented my sudoglove at the Open Hardware Summit, and I worked[…]
Guest on the ZombieTech Podcast
Ever wanted to know how I would survive in a zombie apocalypse? What tools would I bring? How would I prepare food? Would I be able to survive without arduinos in a post-apocalyptic zombie-infested world? These are questions that I had never pondered, until tymkrs invited me to answer these questions on[…]
Interview in the Cornell Daily Sun
Cornell University Sustainable Design, the student design-build initiative that I lead, was recently featured in Cornell’s Daily Sun newspaper. I spoke with a sun writer about the lofty goals that we have for our Sustainability Research Facility (SRF) project. Head over to the daily sun site, and give it a[…]
Featured Engineer on EEWeb
Is this post shameless self-promotion? Maybe. Does that bother me? Just a little. Should you read the interview that I did with EEWeb anyways? Totally. I’m the most recent “featured engineer” on EEWeb.com, a popular online portal for Electrical Engineers. The site offers a pretty nice community, technical info, and[…]
Open Source Ecology
I was just recently introduced to open source ecology (OSE), a movement that aims to develop the global village construction set – all the tools you need to develop a modern community. They’ve already started prototyping many of the tools, and have published all the details necessary to build them[…]
Inspiring Kids at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum
I hope all of you celebrated Earth Day this past Friday! Last week was Earth Week at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in New York City, and I headed down there for 3 days with other members of Cornell University’s Sustainable Design Team to teach kids about ways they could be[…]
My TV Debut: SudoGlove on the Discovery Channel!
This project was featured on the Amp Hour Podcast on 4/18/2011 <Video Removed because The Discovery Channel made a Copyright Claim> :( If you thought I could only use the SudoGlove to drive RC cars and make music (depending on your definition of music), then you’re wrong! It appears that[…]