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Adding Cu3er to a WordPress Page

Featured ProjectsPublished February 28, 2010 at 11:22 pm 9 Comments

I almost decided not to write this up and thought I would wait to make a project page about this when I figured out how to roll out an awesome free template that included cu3er, but knowing how busy I often suddenly find myself, I figured it would be prudent to at least document a
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A Power Saving Power Strip

Featured ProjectsPublished February 28, 2010 at 11:20 pm No Comments

The Vampower, a power saving power strip, is an award winning design project that was part of a joint class in product design and development (PDD) co taught by the FW Olin College of Engineering, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Babson College. The team that worked on this project included two designers from
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Site Relaunch

FeaturedPublished February 27, 2010 at 2:39 am No Comments

Whew….I’ve been working here for about six hours straight and I finally have this thing taken care of. This was almost like a test to see if I could actually put all the pieces together since I will likely have to do so again for work pretty soon. Below is a snapshot of the new
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Maze Robot Sensor Integration

Featured ProjectsPublished February 26, 2010 at 12:15 am No Comments

This project was completed during a course on robotics taught by Prof. Dave Barret at Olin College. The final project for the course, the goal of the project was to navigate a maze using a Surveyor robotic platform. As part of this project, additional sensors were added to the robot. This writeup will focus on
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Fingerprint Activated Door Lock

Featured ProjectsPublished February 25, 2010 at 11:41 pm No Comments

In college we were required to present a project that we worked on every semester. At an engineering school that prides itself on making sure that its students are engaged in hands on work, there was almost always a project that I found was worth presenting. Except, during the second semester of my freshman year.
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