All Projects

ENCREBOOT

ENCREBOOT is technically one of my longest-running projects ever. Its initial conception happened when I was in tenth grade, and I've been incrementally improving it since. Now, the more astute among you may be wondering what the hell an ENCREBOOT is, so let's start there. "ENCREBOOT" is a combination of the words "The ENCRYPTOR" and "reboot," and it's just a program that encrypts text files. In the beginning, it was meant to be a more original and secure version of The ENCRYPTOR, which is one of my first ever Python programs. I say "more original" because The ENCRYPTOR was essentially just ripped from a book named The Big Book of Small Python Projects written by Al Sweigart. This book was one of my favorite resources when it came to first learning Python. Anyway, I knew even then that The ENCRYPTOR was not something I came up with, and therefore not something I could be proud of, so I set out to create something even better.

CALculator

CALculator is a graphing calculator software for the Nintendo DS. I worked on this for most of my last semester at Wittenberg University, and I submitted it to graduate with departmental honors in both computer science and math. I'm not going to write more about it here, but since it was an official university project, I already wrote an entire paper on it, and that can be found here! I tried to write the paper to be easy to understand, so feel free read at least the first few pages!

Honda Civic Boombox (Part 1)

My first car was a white, 2001 Honda Civic LX with side airbags and a manual transmission. It was the car in which I learned to accelerate, brake, steer, and shift gears. It was the car my dad and I disassembled and put an aftermarket sound system into. It was the first thing I owned that required care and maintenance. This Civic was my introduction to the world of cars, and it never failed me.

One misfortune-ridden summer night, I experienced another first in my Civic: my first car accident. Fortunately, I survived the incident unscathed. The same cannot be said for my car. I was completely devastated and the event left me shaken for the next week or two. During my trials and tribulations, however, an idea presented itself to me! My Civic may have been gone, but I still had its radio sitting somewhere in my house. Why not turn it into something special?

More to come soon!

Stay tuned for articles about some of my other projects, like the self-contained boombox I built using the head unit from my late (may it rest in peace) Honda Civic.