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Nissan's Response (?) to my LEAF® Home Screen Widget

Previously On # Last year I wrote about my side project to create an iPhone home screen widget for my Nissan LEAF® electric car since Nissan’s official NissanConnect® EV & Services iPhone app does did (!

Nissan's LEAF® App Doesn't Have a Home Screen Widget So I Made My Own for Free

Nissan’s App # Nissan’s official NissanConnect® EV & Services iPhone app:

How I Used Virtual Reality to Propose to my Wife

Spoiler: she said yes!

Porting Game Boy Emulators to the Pebble Time

I worked on UI and graphics firmware at Pebble from April 2015 until the company was acquired by Fitbit in December 2016.

Using Machine Learning to Recommend Heroes for Dota 2 Matches

I took Stanford’s machine learning class, CS 229, this past quarter.

Preventing Cheating at Hackathons

Here’s a conversation I’m sure you’ve experienced if you’ve ever been to a hackathon’s demo day:

How to Determine if Your Compiler is Inlining Your Functions

Inlining functions can potentially increase the performance of a program.

Review of Packt's "Boost.Asio C++ Network Programming" eBook

I was asked to review an eBook based on a [blog post I wrote a while back on raw sockets in the Boost.

Formatting an SD Card for the Beagleboard(Xm,Bone) in Ubuntu 12.04

I about tore my hair out on this one.

Kevin on Broadcast Radio

Did you know that I had a brief stint as a radio personality?

Using Raw Sockets in Asio/Boost.Asio

This past week I got to play with the cross-platform Asio and Boost.

The Easy Way to install Scala on Mac OS X

If you download Scala from the official site, it comes as a tgz archive of folders containing binaries.

Programming Arduino Mega using avrdude

In case anyone ever needs to program an Arduino Mega using avrdude but doesn’t want to run around the Internet looking for the command line settings, here you go:

How I Thwarted a Laptop Thief with the Help of McAfee and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

My brother’s laptop was stolen out of a car during Spring Break 2012 while he was visiting Montreal, Quebec.

Haskell Final Project

For my Haskell final project, I contributed to Chris Done’s Haskell library for the Kinect ( https://github.

Goron City Ringtone

I made a ringtone of the Goron City theme from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Wireless 8x8 LED Sign

Remember that four-panel 8x8 LED sign I programmed to scroll RSS feeds?

How to Access Channel 3 on a Philips 7225 C107 Hotel TV

I thought about entitling this article “How to Play Nintendo 64 on a Philips 7225 C107 Hotel TV,” but I figured this crazy procedure could be generalized for anyone trying to hook up a peripheral device to this particular type of TV.

Scrolling RSS Feeds on an 8x8 LED Sign via Serial

This past week I decided I was going to figure out how to send text over serial to the 8x8 LED sign my father and I built a few years ago.

Presenting want2join.me at PennApps Mobile 2011

Here is a video of me presenting a mobile web application called “want2join.

O' Circuit-Tree, O' Circuit-Tree

Every year around the holidays, my dorm, Stouffer College House, puts on a program called Holiday Hobbit.

Korea - Day Three

This post is part of a series of journals I wrote while traveling to Seoul, South Korea to compete in the 2010 World Embedded Software Contest, for which my team’s project won the grand prize.

Korea - Day Two

This post is part of a series of journals I wrote while traveling to Seoul, South Korea to compete in the 2010 World Embedded Software Contest, for which my team’s project won the grand prize.

Korea - Day One

This post is part of a series of journals I wrote while traveling to Seoul, South Korea to compete in the 2010 World Embedded Software Contest, for which my team’s project won the grand prize.

Installing Gateway M6755 Wi-Fi Drivers for Ubuntu

I really like Ubuntu.

How to Replace the Keyboard of a Gateway M6755 Laptop

Before I went to college I purchased a Gateway M6755 laptop.

The Repair of My Compaq Armada M300 Laptop

Here is my detailed account of how I brought my four-year-old Compaq Armada M300 laptop back to life from its supposed death.

University Projects

TARA: Totally Awesome Recipe Assistant # A Meteor-based voice assistant web application for cooking with recipes.