“We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” ― Herb Kelleher ―

FliteKlub

Sorry, it’s private! I’d like to put it out as a commercial app someday. It’s a prototype of a scheduling app for flight clubs. I wrote it in Dart using the Flutter framework (did I mention I love Flutter?!). I actually wrote two backends because I was evaluating both a SQLAlchemy/FastAPI stack in Python and a Fiber/GORM in Go. Both are good choices, but I felt that FastAPI was safer and the built-in Swagger integration was much appreciated. I am also not fond of the way GORM handles one-to-many and many-to-many relationships.

FoilToDxf

A quick tool written in Python to convert dat files to dxf files for importing airfoils into CAD.

Barnscrapers

Sorry, it’s private! I wrote a Barnstormers scraper to look for an engine for my aircraft project. If you’d like to use it, then get in touch! It makes looking for a plane or parts much easier if you’re in the market to buy. It’s written in Python with requests, sqlite, and mailgun.

Odlaw

Odlaw was the final project for CSCI2390, Privacy-Conscious Computer Systems. The goal of the project was to help DBAs search for client data in order to quickly package and ship a GDPR-compliant user data report. You can read the final paper here.

LocoStow

LocoStow was the final project for CSCI2270, Topics in Database Management. Chris Cataldo and I considered how geotemporal data storage could be implemented more effectively. We built a geotemporal hashing library in Rust. Attributes in time-series are not able to be treated as first-class citizens. We determined that looking at a specific case of attribute, a geographic coordinate, would be the most prudent direction to pursue.

Bully

Need to document an experimental aircraft build? Tired of Kitlog, blogging sites, or even handwritten notes? Me too! Bully is a builder’s logging tool, written in Java. The project was an excuse for me to learn the JavaFX framework since my undergraduate courses utilized the Swing framework.

The Chaos Game

I learned about The Chaos Game while taking PHYS311 Classical Mechanics. You could play the game by hand, but I’m a computer scientist, so I wrote a quick Python program to play it for me. I like how the Turtle package it simulates the point-by-point nature of the game.

PRRC

The Pi Rick-Roll Controller (PRRC) came to fruition when I realized that somebody had written a Python package to interface with the Chromecast protocol. It rick-rolls every Chromecast device on your connected network. Use with caution!

Picard

The Picard (a portmanteau of Pi Aviation Conditions Indicator/nod to Star Trek) is a Pi-powered device to show aviation weather conditions on a series of LEDs. Many thanks to Michael DuPont, whose REST API powers the project.