I’m on sabbatical and departing for Thailand and to explore Southeast Asia for a few months solo!

I will try to give updates here but we’ll see how that goes.

I needed to automate some old GPIB instruments but ran into issues with GPIB adapters. This post mostly serves to document the modifications I made and as a reference for how to connect.

As a project sponsored by CU’s rocketry club, COBRA (now CUSRL), I designed and built a wireless ignition system for high power rockets. When launching to over ten thousand feet, rockets get large enough that we need thousands of feet of standoff distance for safety. Rather than carry a large spool of wire, we decided to look into wireless ignition systems.

I’ve been wanting to make my own knives for a while now and decided it was time to just do it. Here’s what the finished product looks like.

For my freshman projects class in the Fall of 2016, we were prompted with using some aspect of touch tone phones in a new way. Ultimately, my group decided on making a cell phone targeted at the elderly population, some of whom struggle to use miniaturized cell phones or much more complicated smartphones.

The primary goal of our project was to create a working cell phone with as similar an interface to old landlines as possible to simplify use.