Reads

I keep track of everything I've read on Goodreads. Here are some of my all-time favorites:

• East of Eden

• The Origin of Wealth

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being

• At the Existentialist Cafe

• The Dream Machine

• The Economists' Hour

Projects

Some things I've made:

• sajal

  A lightweight mobile electronic record for refugees. Worked with the Red Cross and humanitarian NGO Emergency to bring to refugee reception centers in Italy.

• onatrip!

  Optimal trip planning / arbitrary queries on maps ("I want to go to a movie theater and then get Italian food and dessert nearby.").

• fRender

  Robust, fault-tolerant distributed rendering prototype for Blender.

• paint floyd

  Paint-mixing robot that dispenses the right combination of primary colors to produce a given color.

• cubic

  Chrome extension to make Internet research more intuitive. Allows a user to navigate to more/less complex articles and view a timeline of events.

• fpga 3d scanner

  Fast, FPGA prototype of a 3D laser scanner. Reconstructs a point cloud of a physical object in real-time.

• fort

  A three-story fort in my dorm's courtyard.

• geodesic dome

  A six-foot-tall dome structure in my dorm's courtyard.