I currently work as a software engineer at
Bombardier Flight
Test Center. I graduated from
Wichita State University
with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. This is a list of some of my more interesting
projects.
Programming Projects
- Active: Toadwater
- I'm in charge of the client for the game, and make sure that everything runs smoothly.
- Active: YaBB 3
- I'm the lead developer for YaBB 3, the next major version. We are taking our lessons from the
last iteration of YaBB 3 and applying them to the source of YaBB 2. The result will be a lean, mean
configurable machine. The current schedule places it done in April 2010.
- On hiatus: assemblebot
- assemblebot was an experiment into several Perl technologies for me. I added a reloadable
command parser, a TK GUI and several other 'nifty' features. It was really fun for me, because
instead of reading the RFC like a good kid, I decided I would just reverse engineer the IRC protocol.
This project was a huge learning experience for me, but the code is not something that should be
run unless supervised--I was not so security minded at the time.
- Shelved: Lightsword Academy
- This was my experiment in writing an online game. It didn't get very far because I lost
interest after I realized that some mistakes I made planning the thing would require a large amount
of time to repair.
Engineering Projects
- Active: Gauss Cannon
- My friend, a physics major, and I are currently in the planning stages of building a coil gun.
It is not quite as ambitious and dangerous as a rail gun, but I'm sure we can still piss off the
neighbors! The Wikipedia article on coilguns has
lots of fun details about how these things work. I don't know if we'll put the plans online or
not--there may be liability issues if someone tries to duplicate our work and blows a part of themself
off.
Future Projects
I've got a few ideas for other projects that I just haven't gotten to yet.
- Tesla Coil
- Every EE should want to build one of these at some point in their life. I haven't decided which kind
would be the most interesting, but the Tesla Coil
Speaker videos on youtube make me want to make a solid state coil.
- Rail gun
- Rail guns are just plain dangerous--which makes me just plain interested.