Selected Projects
Stupid Traffic App
I know how to use third-party APIs too. Here's my Stupid Traffic App.
It runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W in the mornings getting data from the
Google Advanced Directions API to tell me which route I should take to
work each day in the mornings. It runs every 15 minutes from 8 AM to
11 AM (in case I have morning appointments or somesuch.)
It also dispalys hourly weather data for the day from the
National Weather Service in an abbreviated format,
to inform how necessary an umbrella is.
Speaker Visualizer
A few years ago, my parents became interested in, and began learning, to
play the organ. Modern organs are digital. My dad wanted to look into
how to position multiple speaker banks to get the best sound in a room.
This speaker visualizer allows placement of speakers currently treated as
point sources, and the placement and movement of a 'listener' (also
treated and visualized as a point). It traces out the sound rays from
each pair of speakers, and computes the formed angle between them.
This project uses React/Redux with a bit of d3.js.
Raspberry Pi Gate Opener
My parents' gate frequently fails to open during the day. I suspect
this is because the RF receiver overheats during the day due to poor
placement relative to the path of the sun.
This simple script is hosted on a raspberry pi running nginx with a
fixed local ip that my parents can access by phone or computer while
on their home Wifi network.
Molecular Simulation Structure File-Handling Library
This code was my library for reading and handling molecular simulation structure files.
It included general reading and writing superclasses that were extended to
read and write PDB, XYZ, and in-house simulation structure file formats.
Handling the structure files in an object-oriented fashion allowed for the
various objects to handle properties such as distances, angles, and
dihedral angles very easy regardless of boundary conditions (of which
simple cubic and orthorhombic were implemented).
As of the last commit, main() was being used to compute radial
distribution functions.
UCSD Circle K 2007 - 2008 Website
The 2007-2008 UCSD Circle K Website was my first attempt at web development.
Even back then, I recognized I was carrying out a lot of bad practices.
API keys and Database passwords are in the files. The front and back ends
are not separated, so it is impossible to change the front end without
refactoring the back end, and vice versa. The variable naming is atrocious.
But everyone had to start somewhere, and this is how I started. Minus pages
that had personal information or Facebook App API keys, pictures with people
whose permission I did not get, and files that I do not know the copyright
status of, this is the 2007-2008 UCSD Circle K site.
The site included the Automated Member-Accessible Networked Database Accounts,
a PHP/MySQL event signup system that handled online event signups, with
event subscriptions, a highly customized administrative tool suite for board
members, simplistic analytics tools, and a semi-automated MRP-display system.
There was also a Facebook App that displayed the week's upcoming events.
(The code for that was not included here).
