Whats a personal trait/habit that you have that others find suprising or unique?
I am a prepared guy. I pack my bag with medkits, towels, lockpicks, various cables, chargers, screwdriver, SDR radios, swiss knives, etc. You find a use for these things when the need arises.
Tell us about a story youâve heard that genuinely inspired you. How did it influcece the way you build?
Watched a cool video one time about DNA/RNA printing. This guy printed a custom organism by rewriting the DNA of a e-coli plasmid. It glowed in the dark. I really didnât know this was possible. I went down a rabbit hole into existing research and compiled a collection of guides. I came up with this project idea of writing a verilog compiler that compiles down to a DNA sequence. Turns out it already existed, but the project is 7 years old. Its really cool research, later down the line I went to hacklab.to which is a toronto hackerspace, they have their own wet-lab where they print custom organisms. Apparently you can get into this field without a deep background in biology, just a willingness to learn. This really just inspired me. You can contribute to science even if youâre not academic.
Tell us about a project youâve worked on, technical, artistic, anything in between. What was your role, how did you collaborate with others, what did you learn?
Recently worked on a game for Touhou gamejam 16. We made a mix between a ice-cream creation game and bullet hell. I was a programmer in our group of 4, I developed particles, queues and global state handling for our game. Learned a lot about project management. organized tasks through excalidraw, created UML diagrams and mockups for game systems. Spent the weekend before learning how to produce in FL-studio, didnt have enough time to make anything but it was a good experience.