Yearly Archives: 2014

Quadcopter Landing Skids

Posted on March 6, 2014

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 →

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Snowy JHU Aerial Photos

Posted on February 14, 2014

These photos were taken at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Campus from a quadcopter the day after a snow storm.

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HTML5 Night Sky Viewer

Posted on February 9, 2014

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 →

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Camp Workcoeman Website Redesign

Posted on January 20, 2014

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 →

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