Back in December of 2021, I decided to stick my laptop inside of a $40,000 laser cutter (Epilog Fusion Pro 48"), and watched for 20 nerve-racking minutes as the laser did its job of blasting away the original coating. The results were pretty awesome! How the idea came to be: Sometime earlier that fall semester, I…

Pre-Race Training: 75–80 mile weeks in March with a 55 mile DIY ultra. (Got injured and made gait adjustments) 3 weekends of back-to-back super longs (23 + 25 miles) 2 weeks of back-to-back 100 miles during April 1 DIY 28 mile Ultra on the last day of April 3 weeks…

How a one week project ballooned into two months, and how a copycat design transformed into something original The Concept Phase Early January, a friend approached me with what seemed like a simple website design job for their video production company named Brickhead. They currently had a SquareSpace site that looked very template-y…

Creating the concept: The idea I initially had for a pitch involved using Vuforia to create a 2x2 or 3x3 grid with a landscape mapped to the overall shape, and users could mix and match the pieces to create different layouts. However, after the feedback from sharing the concept, I…

The idea for my project was inspired by the concept of Liminal Spaces. A friend had mentioned a couple months ago about discovering a Creepypasta called ‘The Backrooms’ and I felt like that’d be a cool concept to build upon for the project. The Backrooms is a concept about…

My general outlook on life and projects deadline is pretty well summed up in this post: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/07/why-im-always-late.html My print would take 5 hours, so in my mind, I’d be A-okay if I started the print at 5pm and had it fail. I could make some tweaks and then let…

That was one of the first things my professor said during my freshman year while we were being introduced to physical computing, and damn is that still holding true. I haven’t written a puzzle-solving code post in a bit, so I thought I’d document a recent obstacle I ran into…

Day 92: Link to code: https://editor.p5js.org/yetiblue/sketches/PSMhyM8sX Remix of: https://editor.p5js.org/AhmadMoussa/sketches/d4aQ1boe2

Day 85: Link to Code: https://editor.p5js.org/yetiblue/sketches/U6f7rvAYh Inspired by Cezar Mocan, and his 100 Days of Pen Plotter project. It’s nothing too complicated, basically just a simple WEBGL + P5js array of cubes. I used one of the pieces I made in the first week and altered it. The original…