BrickBash: A Blog About a Class Project

This will be my final post for this project. I know—it’s very sad, but the app is coming together nicely, and the class quarter is rapidly closing. I am happy to report that the app can now upload photos to the backend and display the results of analyzing those photos. It’s quite a big step.…

The project is now well underway! Yay! Travis has been working hard on the backend/image recognition/REST api, and I have put my nose to the grindstone with the frontend and UI. We’ve been staying in touch by meeting on Zoom twice a week, and it has really been nice to make sure we’re on the…

So, I didn’t get my first-choice project. But that’s okay, ya know. I got the next best thing—my second choice. It’s a mobile companion app for a smart recycling bin. The bin will only open when the app says it’s okay, and the app will ask the user to take a picture of their (potentially)…

Before the Cambrian Explosion brought billions of ancestral life forms, among the first single-celled plankton wriggling in the ooze, emerged Windows 3.1 and a little boy struggling to play Minesweeper without a clue what to do. And that boy was me, an explorer on a strange and exciting planet, planting little flags in the gray…