Design Technologist
I’m halfway through my 12-week batch The Recurse Center (RC) and thought I’d at least reflect on what it’s actually been like. Having graduated from NYU this past May and remained in the city, I’ve been fortunate enough to get accepted into RC this past September and attend in-person at the RC Hub. tl;dr: My RC batch experience has felt like a multi-swimlane “choose your own adventure” hackathon…
A minimalist remake of that watermelon game in Unity. Code is on Github: https://github.com/holistudio/minika
I had a lot of fun this past weekend at the AEC Tech Hackathon at NYC. I really appreciated the open format of the hackathon. The whole event started with an “open mic” - anyone could walk up to the microphone at the front of a large room and pitch an idea they wanted to work on in the next 24 hours. Teams would organically form around the big ideas that more people were interested in. At the end,…
I went to the Tate Modern the first day I traveled to London. I got there in the afternoon, right before it rained, walking over the Millenium Bridge. I was quite exhausted. First stop, the espresso bar. The main thing I wanted to see was an exhibit on Piet Mondrian* and Hilma af Klint. I honestly went because I recognized Mondrian’s name from the one architectural history class I took in college.…
What are we trying to do? Imagine you start stacking a few Lego blocks and then an robotic arm* starts stacking blocks alongside you. Ideally, the robot’s AI can intuitively pick up on what you are trying to build and suggest blocks towards your goal. Or even better, the AI’s blocks inspire you to take your build into a different direction you never imagined beforehand! What would it take to get…
Hello world! After many years of learning computer programming, I finally decided to make my own personal webpage outside of Squarespace. Don’t get me wrong, Squarespace has its usefulness - like for me when I was still learning web frameworks but needed to show a design portfolio of projects to potential grad school programs and employers. Lately though, I felt that it was a bit silly to keep…
While maintaining public streets and highways, roadway construction workers have to balance their attention to completing their tasks with their overall safety in relation to the surrounding traffic vehicles moving around their work zone. What if a wearable device (e.g., smartwatch) could intelligently warn workers of dangerous vehicles (e.g., speeding cars)? What aspects of worker behavior (head…
Recent technological trends in healthcare, such as telemedicine, wearables, and AI-augmented tools, are changing what patients expect out of their doctor’s visit and changing how healthcare workers expect to work in outpatient practices. Architects and engineers need to rethink their process of designing outpatient clinics’ physical spaces and building systems to be more flexible and adaptive to…
In the United States, buildings account for 28% of total primary energy usage and 40% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Studies by the EPA and other agencies estimate that energy costs could be reduced by up to 20% by better air-sealing the building envelope (i.e., walls, windows, roof). While energy audits and envelope inspections are necessary to identify these air leaks and maintain a…
Motion capture of martial arts movements have been a major component in video games and film visual effects, typically involving cumbersome suits for the martial artists and an array of expensvie cameras. What if all you needed was a single camera? Using a computer vision model trained to recognize a person’s body parts in 2D images and locate those body parts’ 3D locations, it can be possible to…