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You've reached my student repository for devCodeCamp in Brookfield, WI.

I am currently attending devCodeCamp and this blog is one of our labs using HTML5, CSSs, Javascript and jQuery. By the end of our bootcamp, we will have done Python, some front and back end web developement, and a majority of our time spent doing C# programming.

This page will be a temporary portfolio until I am ready to create a new one, seperate from devCodeCamp. In the mean-time, please feel free to enjoy my Git-Hub repositry. Much of the code was done quickly, and should be refactored. Some of the code was team-coding and not done by me. But please, feel free to look around.


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Code Spotlight

Asteroids

Asteroids Clone

During our third week of boot-camp we recreated the classic game Asteroids, using Pygame as our graphics engine. It was a team project involving myself and the rest of the helium team. My responsibilites were the main game engine loop, the start-up screen, and some helper classes with the explosion animation class, and the bullet class. The other guys ran the main ship, and asteroids class, and another handled all the sprite blitting, and collision detection.

Time Tracker

Time Tracker Rev 1.0

During our second week of boot-camp we were asked to choose a personal project to work on. I wanted to learn about python's Graphic User Interface libraries. This Time-Tracker widget is designed to sit on your desktop and with a simple 3 button interface, it will track the time you spend on a particular project.
This version saves it directly into a tab-delimited text file that you can import into Excel or any other spread-sheet.
You can find Revesion 2 my git-hub repository as well, but it is still in progress. Revision 2 will incorporate MySQL integration with a remote server.

Interests

Robotics

Prior to devCodeCamp, I was a professional robotics engineer by education and trade, doing the mechanical design of custom automation and industrial robotic and workcells for factories in south-eastern Wisconsin. Also maintaining the electrical and programming of the workcells. I also have a interest in hobby robotics, and do personal studies/research in artificial intelligence and mobile robotics in my own time.

Industrial Robotics

Camping / Hiking

Sometimes you just have to get away from the city and clear your head. One of my favorite camping spots is Rock Island in Door County, WI. Go to the end of the peninsual, take a car ferry to Washington Island, then a walking ferry to Rock Island. Pack-in, pack-out. Beautiful, quiet, with swimming and hiking to boot. Perfect.

Rock Island

Kickball

Bar league kick-ball. Adult competition, in a game played by elementary schoolers. What more could you want?

MUSA Kickball

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