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  • AI Series: Level 1 – The Large Language Model (LLM)

    AI Series: Level 1 – The Large Language Model (LLM)

    Level 1: The Large Language Model (LLM) – When Games Got Real <sung> “In the year 2000” </sung> Rather than a look into the future, its a look in the past… We’re here in my Senior year at CWRU where I’ve built my first neural network (don’t worry if you don’t know what that is…

  • Heather Costume: Dragons: Race to the Edge

    Heather Costume: Dragons: Race to the Edge

    The time has finally come for the long-awaited release of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World!  Our house has some huge fans of the series due to its gorgeous visuals, endearing characters, and a musical score that soars as high as any Night Fury.  Netflix also released a series of original programs called…

  • 3-D Printing: Thought to Thing at Lightspeed

    3-D Printing: Thought to Thing at Lightspeed

    Affordable and accessible 3-D printing is a revolutionary tech. Very high level description of 3-D printing concepts, steps, and what it’s all about.

  • JUNKies: Beer Fridge Build

    JUNKies: Beer Fridge Build

    Steve, Jay, Josh, Graham, and Ryan do pre-build work for a shooting JUNKies (The Science Channel) for episode: Hovercrash.

  • WUSA9: Super NOVA Writeup on HALO Project

    I was recently written up in WSA9’s weekly highlight for a local person who has an interesting hobby, has made a business impact, is a philanthropist, …..or who can provide any content for them to meet a deadline. My thanks to Ryan Rusnak for nominating me as a Super NOVA, and Ellen Scott for interviewing…

  • Scale: Carbon Atom to Massive Star

    Though my blog is primarily focused on DIY, I think every once in a while some general information is appropriate because it is central to why even bothering with learning or doing anything…at all.. let alone doing it yourself.  While these aren’t the answers to the big questions of where we are from, or what’s…

  • Wild Garlic Soup

    Making Wild Garlic soup with some ingredients dug up in the front yard.

  • Collaboration: An Art and a Science

    Documentation of collaborative work between Steve Struebing (www.polymythic.com) and Jeremy Stern (www.jeremysternart.com) for Jeremy’s Master of Fine Arts thesis “Following”.

  • Humana Health by Design Challenge – HALO Project Results

    The results were published, and I am honored to have won the Assistive Tech Grand Prize.  I would like to thank everyone for voting at www.instructables.com.  I would like to say a big thank you to Humana for hosting the competition, and congratulations to everyone else who entered.  There were some spectacular entries, especially in…

  • HALO – Haptic Feedback System for Blind/Visually Impaired

    Complete Build Instructions: Please visit www.instructables.com for the complete build instructions and story. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfXs5rhwCfE Highlights/Features – Approximate 4 feet of range – Variable haptic sensation (frequency and intensity of vibrations increase as range decreases) – Just over 180 degree field of view from 5 Parallax Ping))) Ultrasonic Rangefinders Background I have recently been introduced to some new…