Absolute Maximum Ratings
Voice-controlled room automation
One side of Stephanie's head, showing the micro and wiring
This is the first project I started when I learned about microcontrollers. I had played with Microsoft SAPI before to recognize voice commands, but I always wanted to be able to do more tangible things with it than simply turning up the volume or pausing a video. Stephanie is an ongoing project that currently controls various lights in my room, other applicances, window blinds, etc. She also can read off the weather and bus times at the nearest intersection.
Steampunk gaming at its finest: modded!
Carrier Arachnid Schematic
Arcanum is an amazingly fun old steampunk role-playing game that I still play often. What better way to keep the replayability up and salute its steampunk nature than by cobbling on fantastic new additions?
Wiimote Gestures
Graphs of Wiimote acceleration data
During a Senior Design project I had the opportunity to play with a bit of data from a Wiimote. I took some of what I learned and, taking the great Wiimote Library for VB.NET and the fantastic Dollar Recognizer, I combined the two to recognize gestures with the Wiimote.
He breathes paint, not fire!
The completed system
As part of a microcontroller lab class project, a couple of friends and I modified a previous semester's project. The simplest description for this bot is 'large inkjet printer'. I focused on software, but I learned a lot about the hardware side from my friends during this project, including electronically controlling pneumatic systems and my first exposure to PCB milling.
