A still of the fidget spinner rotor in motion The Project One of the major deliverables for ENGR 320 – Electromechanical Devices was to work in a group of 5 and create a functional motor. The design parameters for the project were rather loose, so the group decided to adopt a unique design: fidget […]
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The closed loop system in Simulink, including feedforward gain and a measure for integral square error The Project One of the major deliverables for ENGR 480 – Modern Control, was to work in a group of 3 and find a model for a system. From this model, the group was to design a state-feedback
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A still of the final device Over the course of our labs of my Microelectronics II course, everyone was tasked to construct a device that measures pulse rate using a method called photoplethysmography (PPG) in groups of two. Up until now, most of my labs were largely independent of one each other in their
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The product inside of a mock cup holder Over the summer, I took a course called ENGR 407 – Inclusive Design. The course is based off of the Inclusive Design principles developed by Microsoft. One of the main objectives of the course was to create a product for an individual with a spinal cord
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The link to the GitHub directory is near the bottom of the page! GitHubディレクトリのリンクは本ページの下側にあります。 Creating an Extension that Converts Between Kyūjitai/Shinjitai and Historical/Modern Kana Orthography The extension’s GUI Introduction This post may be seen as a follow-up post on traditional kana orthography and kyūjitai that I made this time last last year. In it, I created a
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All images from Wikipedia “Hanayama Dam” Another dam project, this time on the Hanayama Dam in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. This project is probably the longest article I have translated so far and had a few challenges, notably finding appropriate English terms, that had to be surmounted. Hanayama Dam’s Sluice Gates Translation Process
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The download button is near the bottom of the page!ダウンロードボタンはページの下側にあります。 Update: Dynamic Converter Extension Now Available I have managed to modify an existing Google Chrome extension originally made for converting Simplified/Traditional Chinese to make it work for Japanese kanji and kana (note that the kana convert functionality can cause lag on more complex webpages). See
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All images from Wikipedia “Futai Dam” Another day another dam. Wait, that’s not how the saying goes. In any case, it seems I like doing dams as well as pottery articles! We’ll see how the trend goes from here, but this time sees me doing a volunteer Wikipedia article about Futai Dam in Niigata Prefecture,
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Image from Kuribayashi While I never anticipated translating another article about pottery so soon, here I am. This article is about Akogi ware (阿漕焼 Akogi-yaki), a type of pottery near Mie, Japan. While not having as long of a history as my previous article on Akazu ware, the project was still very enjoyable to do.
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All images from the “SCP Foundation” Wikidot service A work of fiction, yet still using technical terms. What an interesting change of pace! This piece of work not only saw me using technical terminology, it also saw me playing around with Wikidot’s (a wiki service much like Wikipedia) formatting structure, similar but in many ways different
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