Yes, you caught me. This post is back-dated so as to get this blog started with some pretty pictures and appropriate stories. In June of 2008, I traveled to Oxford for the first time in my life, with a group of new classmates. We stayed in lovely accommodations in Magdalen College for a week-long mentor-selecting extravaganza. I was lucky to find Prof. Alison Noble my very first day, and though I interviewed with many others (11 researchers in total), none quite swayed me from working in the BioMedIA. I had a little bit of time to explore the town and take some pictures, and I certainly look forward to returning soon.
This trip was brief but productive, and was followed up by the end of the summer and beginning of the first (classroom) year at DukeMed.
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In my sophomore year at Penn State, I built an electrocardiograph out of a PalmPilot as a hobby project. The signal amplification circuit is derived directly from plans at Jason Nguyen’s page. My contribution was to add the analog-to-digital converter and program the PalmPilot interface (as well as putting it all in a nice little enclosure).
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Back in the day, I would look at web sites written by college kids with too much time on their hands detailing how, using only seven carefully selected RadioShack parts, they had constructed a pet robot, or something like that. Though I am still working towards the skill of those RadioShack patrons of yore, I made a first foray in to that world in the winter of my freshman year of college. What began as a reason to explore Penn State’s Learning Factory and come out with a party prop soon became known as the “Staff of Doom.” Click for the story and pictures!
