This project is being developed in collaboration with artists Ashley Pigford and Troy Richards. Inspired by a statement written on Woody Guthrie’s guitar, This Machine Kills Fascists (TMKF) is a guitar-playing robot that performs traditional American folk music on a
Continue reading‘Tis the season for writing reference letters. I get lot of requests for these for reasons that range from graduate school applications to resident assistant and job related inquiries. For the most part, I am happy to write them. If
Continue readingI’d like to share some tips along the lines of Matt Might‘s posts, where he shares his insights on topics like travel, weight lifting, productivity, etc. that have helped me quite a bit. I’m well into the last year of
Continue readingI started really learning about money a bit late in life, around 27, when a good friend loaned me a copy of Smart Women Finish Rich. I was making plenty of money at the time but was many thousands of
Continue readingDuring my senior year at CMU I participated in honors research in Dr. Yoky Matsuoka’s Neurobotics Lab. I worked with a graduate student of hers on a Portable Wearable Movement Tracking System designed to track limb movements accurately and continuously
Continue readingCardio Kinetics provides preventative health care to individuals, companies, and other organizations. My favorite client center of theirs was the Newark Senior Center where I managed the exercise center a few evenings a week while in graduate school. A lot
Continue readingGlobal Biomechanical Solutions assists insurance companies and insurance defense law firms with identifying claims that can be defended with biomechanical experts. I worked on a handful of reports for them as an expert witness in which I analyzed the available
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I worked part time with Dr. Josef Geldwert in a private clinical setting involved with assessing gait as well as measuring and visualizing pathomechanical events. We used Zebris WinFDM-T and Contemplas software with an instrumented treadmill and synchronized video camera
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This idea was inspired by the Minty Boost project. Although a DIY charger is a great idea, my main problem with the minty boost was needing to remember a USB to iPod cable to charge my iPod on the go.
Continue readingIOLS was a project initiated by Robot Clothes, a partnership between James Powderly and Michelle Kempner, and completed during their 2005 artist in residency at Eyebeam in Manhattan. I was brought on as their biomechanics consultant. We wanted to make
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