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Process Log: Gesture Glove Prototype

HCDE 351 Design and Physical Prototyping Assignment

A wizard-of-oz prototype testing whether gesture-only interaction with a glove can drive a slide presentation reliably enough to feel intuitive.

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Process Log: Astra Video Prototype

HCDE 351 Design and Physical Prototyping Assignment

A two minute slice of life film prototyping Astra, an empathic LLM therapy companion built around when a tool should stop rather than what it can do.

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Process Log: 3D Printed Prototype

HCDE 351 Design and Physical Prototyping Assignment

Two small functional prints: an AeroPress filter container that clamps onto the plunger for travel, and a Samsung X5 cooling box with a slide-in fan-mount top plate.

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Process Log: Laser Cut Prototype

HCDE 351 Design and Physical Prototyping Assignment

A laptop stand cut from flute board, made first as an over-engineered easel, then collapsed into two interlocking pieces with a sliced wax apple cutout and a signature engraving.

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Process Log: iPad Sleeve Prototype

HCDE 351 Design and Physical Prototyping Assignment

A soft-goods prototype sewn from muslin and then from salvaged t-shirts, with a zipper closure and a device-fit constraint driving most of the decisions.

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Process Log: Programmable Electric Screwdriver Prototype

HCDE 351 Design and Physical Prototyping Assignment

A low-fidelity physical prototype experiment on the interaction logic of a programmable electric screwdriver.

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Unity to Godot

If it works maybe fix it anyways

So I tried switching to Godot once more and this time it stuck.

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Using Sanity

Or is it insanity?

When it comes to working for someone else surely I have to do my best right?

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Apple LOG Testing Part 2

It finally snowed in Seattle

This time the lighting of the shot is more contrasted than a foggy lake.

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Apple LOG Testing Part 1

I am clueless when it comes to color grading.

Managed to somewhat justify the replacement of my iPhone 13 Mini by getting into a new hobby.

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Svelte 4 Releases

Smoooth Upgrades

About a month ago Svelte 4 was released, and I missed the news.

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About My Blog

And why it exists...

I was babbling about why I made a whole blog section for my website because I am too insecure to share my work on social media.

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Vercel Ships In-House Storage

No more PlanetScale?

Vercel adds platform-native Postgres database to their list of storage solutions.

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