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Quadcopter Landing Skids
One of my quadcopters recently had a hard landing that broke its landing skids. The skids that came with the frame kit consisted of 5mm carbon rods with flimsy plastic joints, and the crash broke both. I decided to replace … Continue reading
Snowy JHU Aerial Photos
These photos were taken at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Campus from a quadcopter the day after a snow storm.
HTML5 Night Sky Viewer
For HopHacks last weekend, I wrote an HTML5 night sky viewer. Using D3.js and SunCalc, the 750 brightest stars are rendered using SVG and Javascript. One’s location can either be found using the HTML5 Geolocation API, or it can be … Continue reading
Camp Workcoeman Website Redesign
I spent the last few weeks redesigning the Camp Workcoeman website. The site design is based on Bootstrap, without the jQuery components, and makes heavy use of SVGs. In addition, the header dynamically responds to the time of day—the sun’s … Continue reading