Derek’s Projects and Hobbies

Wii portable

This is a device that is made by physically cutting up a Wii motherboard and rewiring it to be usable in a handheld form factor. The designs and boards used are community-made.

Artificial skylight

Recreating artificial skylights on a budget. The light needs to be very bright, appear infinitely far away, have the proper color temperature and color rendering, and recreate atmospheric scattering. I used a recycled Fresnel lens, a 500w LED, and some waterproof inkjet transparency film to successfully build the light.

Example of an artificial skylight made by the company Coelux

3D model I designed of the assembly

The light I made

My light working (!)

Whatistheradiusofthecolosseum.com

The No. 2 resource on the radius of the colosseum (watch out Wikipedia).

Skeeball Machine (work in progress)

This is a group project with me and two other people. We are building a full size Skeeball machine from scratch. I mostly do the electronics but have been helping with fabrication. The GitHub for the project is here.

I keep forgetting to take pictures but the ramp is done and the electronics are almost done

Hobbies

Hiking

Beat saber

Kite flying

Knot tying

Drawing fancy hats

List making

Speed typing (120wpm 😎)

D&D

Anki (Mandarin, Math)

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Air plants