Max Diebold's Capstone Blog

I’ll admit, the project my team has been working on these two terms has proven to be a bit of a climb (maybe more of a rappelling adventure). Rather than choose from some of the more familiar projects offered in the EECS Project Portal, I thought it would be interesting to choose one that would…

Luddites hate it! For my group’s Embedded System Digital Audio Loop Station project, the base technology requirements are pretty specific: at a bare minimum, a microcontroller and corresponding audio adapter are necessary, and we went with the project’s recommendations for these: the Teensy 4.1 development board and the Rev D2 audio shield. I won’t go…

Clean Code and Code Smells are tightly intertwined: unclean leads to code smells more often than not, but they differ in their consequences and subjectivity. While some code smells relate to stylistic preferences, others detract from the long-term maintainability of a project. In a survey of 85 professional developers, Yamashita and Moonen discovered that a…

The history of mankind has been marked by countless innovations: the fat burner belt, the meat claw, the Flowbee, Clippy, etc. In rare occurrences, however, a technology comes along that is so revolutionary, a new era is born. Such a harbinger appeared in the last decade, though it went unnoticed by many: the fuzzy finder.…

My first choice from the available projects for this capstone course was the Embedded System Digital Audio Loop Station, for a few of reasons: on a shallow level I’m interested in music, on a kiddie pool level I’m interested in audio synthesis and digital signal processing (though I’m a complete n00b in the context of…

So you say you’re curious about life in the Midwest, eh? And my life in particular? Well I’m flattered. My name is Max Diebold, and I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city in the Eastern time zone with the largest metropolitan area in Ohio and the third largest in the state by population. We may…

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