Novelty Task
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Petr’s Miraculous Canvas
Petr’s Miracle, also called the “Petr-Douglas-Neumann theorem” is a geometric theorem that describes a procedure that can be applied to any arbitrary polygon to always produce a regular polygon with the same number of sides. In response to Mathologer‘s programming challenge at the end of their video on the topic, I created a web app […]
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Taguchi Array Generator
Most scientific experiments are designed to test the effect of changing a single independent variable on a single or multiple dependent variables. However, sometimes the effect of simultaneously changing multiple interdependent input variables is required and this is called multivariate experimental design. For example, maybe doubling the amount of one chemical doubles the yield of […]
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Air Raid Siren Alarm Clock
I used to have a problem trying to wake up to my alarms so I tried to think of something that no one could sleep through. How about an air raid siren? The Alarm Clock On Aliexpress, I found a small 12V air raid siren which upon second viewing, is probably intended for cars but […]
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Australian Health Star Rating Calculator
The Australian Health Star Rating system is a government initiative to label foods with 0.5 to 5 stars to indicate how healthy they are. The calculation is very convoluted so I created a web app to calculate it from nutritional information. As each section of the form is filled out, it also shows the relevant […]
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Anime Subtitle Generator
Space Dandy (not Da Nde) is an anime about a dandy guy in space. Upon revisiting one of my favourite shows of all time, I was excited to learn that there were a series bonus episodes I’ve yet to watch. I was less excited to learn that there were no English subtitles for it anywhere […]
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Wiimote Control Car
Mario Kart is THE party game to play when you have friends over and Mario Kart Wii is THE definitive Mario Kart Experience*. While I’ll concede that no one who plays competitively will ever use motion controls (and neither do I anymore), the intuitive skeuomorphic controls of the Wiimote makes the game accessible to even […]