👉 Link post to my article on Benchling's engineering blog. ☜

I wrote the article during my internship this summer with Benchling's Modified Biologics and Chemistry team. Check it out for a visual and interactive explanation of monomers, nucleotide structures, chemical image renderings, and rotation trigonometry!

You can find a fullscreen demo at /projects/gooey/, or a smaller version if you skip to the end of this post. For the full code, see the JS code and vertex and fragment shaders.

The options panel in the top left of this page lets you change the variables in the animations.

AllRGB is a really cool challenge: make an image that contains each of the 16777216 RGB colors exactly once.

I wrote a HTML canvas-based visualization of an AllRGB image being created. It uses several space-filling curves in 2D and 3D.

I made a demo of this at /projects/allrgb and the source is on GitHub.

My first Hacktoberfest was a great experience. Hacktoberfest is a yearly event run by DigitalOcean, GitHub, and Twilio that encourages developers to make five GitHub pull requests during October. (I was motivated by the offer of a limited edition t-shirt.)

Color models

If someone knows only one color model, it's probably RGB. It's a great color space for computers to represent colors, but not intuitive or useful for humans. It's especially not useful when objectively determining whether a color is dark or light.

Custom domain emailing

Earlier this year, I set up my robotics club's website to be able to send and receive emails from its domain. For example, [email protected] or [email protected].

Introduction

This tutorial will create a skin showing the number of seconds from the start of the year in binary with Rainmeter and Lua. Lua can be used with Rainmeter to load and execute skins. We'll make a binary clock that shows the number of seconds elapsed from the beginning of the year. The two source files are in this gist.

Introduction

In this project, I used a MAX7219 for the LED dot matrix, and a DS3231 for the RTC module. Complete code here

Introduction

Chances are, you've once wanted to make a progam for generating or solving mazes. There are dozens of maze algorithms. In my opinion, Kruskal's algorithm is the simplest for generating mazes.
I made a demo of this at /projects/kruskal.

Introduction

This post just tests the CSS and code formatting on this site.

Code & syntax highlighting

This is a test for code blocks and syntax highlighting. It's some sample code for a simple Flask route.

@app.route("/")
def index():
    return "This is the homepage"

# some snippet of python