Here you will find some projects of which I'm proud enough to report on, plus some old stuff I did in middle school/early high school that, shall we say, exhibit my arc through building stuff. Feel free to email me for documentation at aszlau (at) gmail.com. I cannot promise I have such documentation for every project, however.

The summer before college, I wanted to do another programming project. This is V.L.A.D., Voice-Lighting Automated Dorm.

This code takes in a finite gauge group and Gauss code of a knot and outputs the knot group and particle types on the knot's boundary torus. Also, given such particle types, this code computes the fusion rules between the particles, based on some additional data.

Link to github repository

This was my first foray into programming, beginning mid-junior year of high school. I currently cannot find the Arduino code (I know, an Arduino mini would have been much better space-wise, but I was a complete beginner and everyone online said to start with the Arduino Uno)

Spring Quarter of 2019, I took CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Recognition. For my final project, I teamed up with my friend Krishna G. and tried to make some improvements to SPADE, a model for generating photorealistic images given a semantic segmentation map of an image. Here is our final report. Our results are seen below.

In the summer of 2018, I worked to help set up Prof. Ben Feldman's lab, which works to probe the quantum hall regime. I designed and built a bunch of stuff, but the most interesting was a mount for quartz tips to be loaded in an evacuator to be vaporized in order to create SET tips to probe this regime.

I am very excited by interesting chests and cases, so I made one for some tools. The drawers were done by dados on the sides, with the drawer slide having tiny rabbets on the end to fit into the dados.

In early 2017, my pal Tanay K. took me to a hardware hackathon where we were to create a Moto Mod for the Moto Z android phone. We decided to join forces with David L. and Michael H. to work on Yan M.H.'s idea, an LED board to assist with the camera flash. Tanay implemented the music recognizer via F.F.T. in about half an hour (!), so that became a feature. David and Michael works on an app for the phone with which one could display images or gifs on the LED board.

I'm a huge sucker for Halloween. My tributes to Nosferatu (1922) and The Dark Knight (2008).

I don't have any clear images for this one. It was a long time ago.

When I was in 7th grade, my good friend Big Gerb blew my mind with a mechanical rubber band machine gun from OGG Craft, so I wanted to make my own.

All of this stuff is pre-junior year of high school, and I have it all in a video. It consists of: a polynesian lime spatula, spartan helmet, nerf ballistic knife, tiki carvings, taxi driver rubber band sleeve pistol, spring loaded wolverine claws, Scarecrow costume (mask and wrist sprayer) from Batman Begins (2005), retro coffee table seen above courtesy of Woodworking for Mere Mortals, sheet music organizer, Mythbusters 'Plausible' sign, chinese repeating crossbow, and signal flares.