Published on: Sun Jul 07 2013
Shortly before graduating from Stonybrook University with my B.S. in physics, awesome news came along; accepted at University of California Santa Barbara for graduate studies in electrical and computer engineering!!! This means a road trip from NY to CA sometime this summer. (In 6 more days...)
Sometime in May a random adventure to PubHack turned into an exciting little application Visibrary. Our team programmed a C++ application using the Cinder framework, and we used the Biliocommons API to built a book recommendation engine based on librarian entered tags. After we won the Library Integration Prize Iv Segal and I built a web based version of our book recommendation engine at http://vi.skyberrys.com using Python/Django and D3 for the visuals. To see how the recommendation engine worked in a more encompassing way I build a quick model using D3's Force Directed Graph at http://vi.skyberrys.com/book.map/ .
The other big project for the summer (Hemisphere Keyboard) started from another project (Laser Raster Projector) I was helping with that needed 8 kinematic mirrors. Well the Laser Raster Projector didn't NEED the mirrors but I was having so much fun building the mirrors I made 8 of them, and even though they turned out to not work with the current hardware for the Laser Raster Projector project, while I was sitting around making the mirrors I came up with an alternative keyboard design, the Hemisphere Keyboard.
HemiSphere Keyboard from skyberrys on Vimeo.