A few weeks ago my co-worker issued a challenge to my team as a response to a random conversation:
The first one to find one of these as a legitimate commit ID wins:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Magic_debug_values
We speculated a little bit about …
If you're anything like me, the only times you've ever used git stash it went
something like this: In the middle of working on branch A you decided you
should test something out on branch B. So you quickly run git stash,
checkout branch B and test something, then come …
As I was working on my D3 daylight visualization I ran into a problem. After showing the first iteration to my friends, they set out to find every single edge case that broke the tool. Obvously, I wanted to fix every case, but the bug report process was so laborious …
The name of this website is an anagram. It's possible to rearrange all of the letters in the neural bit to form brian hulette. That's a simple concept I set out to illustrate concisely with the site's logo.
For the first iteration of this webpage, way back when I was …
This summer I am taking CS5114 - Theory of Algorithms at Virginia Tech. Our first Project was to analyze a Dynamic Programming algorithm, and compare it to other approaches that solve the same problem. Since I am focusing on DSP/Communications, I decided to look at the Viterbi algorithm, a Dynamic …
This site was adapted from my old, static HTML website. I wrote the original site way back in high school (with many updates throughout college), and it was beginning to show its age. The biggest issue was that I didn't create it with any sort of templating to begin with …
During my last quarter at Rose-Hulman I took a great class called ECE481 - Electronic Music Synthesis. In it, we discussed a lot of concepts used to synthesize music, including additive and destructive synthesis, FM synthesis, the Karplus-Strong algorithm, and various post-processing and mixing techniques.
As a final project for the …
In the spring of 2010 my brother and I decided we would like to launch a camera into near-space, in order to take images of the earth from 90,000+ feet. We were primarily inspired by a well known project completed by some MIT students called Project Icarus. They became …
I recently acquired a Canon PowerShot A530 camera, and decided to use it to take a few timelapse videos. I installed the Canon Hardware Development Kit (CHDK) on it, which gives me a lot more control over the camera's settings. You can use it to write scripts to automatically control …
In my Embedded Systems Design class, we were required to create a final project of our choosing which demonstrated our understanding of the course concepts. My partner and I decided to create an Audio Visualizer for our final project. The idea was to display the audio spectrum in real-time (calculated …
A few months after I got my new Volvo S70, I began to think that the stereo head unit would be perfect for a carputer (car computer). It's a rather large head unit, probably about twice as tall as a typical one, so there would be plenty of space inside …
During Fall quarter of my Sophomore year at Rose I took Computer Architecture. For most of the quarter, the class is assigned to design a 16-bit processor in teams of 4. These are the results of that project for my group.
In most of our lectures we discussed the …
Over the summer I needed an amplifier for my TV visualizer. I bought a kit for one online, but the site I bought it from had a minimum purchase price, so I decided to buy a led clock kit to go with it. Once I had the clock all soldered …
My senior year of high school, my roommate and I stumbled on this tutorial on making a hollow book. We decided it would be pretty cool to have one, so I pulled a book that I had already read off the shelf and we got to work. We finished cutting …