Gradewise is an AI-powered educator productivity tool for teachers to quickly add high-quality feedback to essays and assignments. Didn’t work out but led me to join the founding team for Brisk.
StarterCSS is a chrome extension for beginner web developers to implement and experiment with CSS with a visual, no-code dashboard. Piloted in Berkeley classes totaling 150+ students.
Saturn is a grant-notification and aggregation mobile app to help nonprofits easily find their next grant. Built with React Native & Firebase [code].
StutterLess is an AI-powered app that provides online speech therapy for people who stutter. Launched to 100+ beta-testers and raised $15K from startup competitions.
Toys
This is just a space for me to toy around with things that intrigue me 🙂.
Annoying alarm clock
I’ve always been pretty curious about hardware and electronics, so this is my first go! I made an alarm clock that turns off when you get out of bed (and for me, head to the bathroom). The alarm is controlled by an esp32, which is connected to a vibrator motor via a simple circuit, and detects a rough proximity with a second esp32 through Bluetooth RSSI. Once when you get near the second esp32 will the buzzing turn off!
MyTranslator
I love to travel and talk with locals, but it’s tough for me when I don’t speak their language. So recently at a hackathon in SF, I made a realtime translation device that sounds like you. Basically, I cloned my voice with ElevenLabs and hooked up some APIs for translation and speech to a raspberry pi so I could carry it out to the street. I won a couple hundred dollars and had an awesome time 🔥.
Smart pen
I feel like we still haven’t solved the issue of being able to transfer handwriting to computers yet. I just want to be able to write normally on paper and have my words / pictures show up on the screen. I think it’s absurd that we either need to buy fancy trackpads or expensive apple pens to draw “normally” (ie. with your fingers or hand). It’s useful for people who teach online, as an example, to be able to easily draw on screen without having to fudge around with their keyboards. That’s the inspiration behind this “smart” pen, which uses a sensor (MPU6050) to track and display your hand movements on screen. It turns out that precisely measuring linear acceleration is super hard, so this prototype only responds to rotational movements.
Pose machine
I got inspired by this and made a “pose machine” that constructs a story around four random poses you strike. It’s especially fun when you throw props in or involve other people because the story can use them in a completely different way than anticipated. We have a couple of settings (ex. happy, mysterious, epic) that affect how the story is generated (GPT4V behind the scenes). Code is here.