Competition Built line follower for Intro to Engineering Design mini-project. Result Won class competition for fastest design to complete the entire course. This was out of about 10 designs. Design Three light sensors in a row, with the center one slightly forward of the other two. If an edge sensor and the center were activated, the […] Read more
Background I’m a member of Plast Ukrainian Scouting. At camp, we have a tradition of building a gate (“брама”) every year and then showing it off in a ceremony. This year, our theme was “unbroken” (“незламні”), and, in keeping with that theme, I designed and coordinated the building of a gate which would start off seemingly […] Read more
Project Build database for keeping track of data from a variety of instruments on multiple computers. Built for a subproject on the Xenon Dark Matter Search project. Features Transparently handles time synchronization to the main server Makes sure time increases monotonically, ignoring changes to the system clock Corrects for clock drift Accepts data from multiple sources […] Read more
Competition Build an AI to play Tetris. The team which clears the most rows before losing wins. Result First Place. The AI was shut off after clearing 50,000 moves in the competition. It made it to over 1 million moves in testing. Algorithm Every possible rotation and position of current+next piece were placed on the […] Read more
Competition Build an AI which controls a player inside a maze. The player can only see a certain number of places in each direction (5 in the video above). There are doors which can only be opened after picking up a key. The player is trying to get to the goal position in the fewest […] Read more
Competition Write an AI which plays the board game Hex. Result First place, winning every match it played. Algorithm Basic human-like strategy based on information from HexWiki. The AI’s main focus is on classic blocks and 2-bridges toward either side. Additional Links Source Code: Github Read more
Project Do whatever you want for the last month of school (ie after the AP Computer Science exam). We built a networked castle defense game. Result A on project. Additional Links Source Code: Github Read more
Competition Build an AI to play Flood It. Algorithm Used a heuristic based on Dijkstra’s algorithm for the majority of the board. Switched to a brute force for the end. Result Dead last. The scoring was based on both fewest moves and shortest amount of time. In the competition, we got 1st place for moves […] Read more
