Projects
Collecting Data on a Raspberry Pi and Sending the Data to a Database to be Viewable on a Website
In a class project, my group and I set up a Raspberry Pi to collect temperature and humidity data on a set interval. The temperature data was collected as celsius and converted to Fahrenheit. Then after the data was processed on the Raspberry Pi, the date and time, temperature (celsius and Fahrenheit), and humidity were uploaded to our Firebase Realtime Database that we set up to host this project. Once the data was in the database, it could be accessed by the website we set up to display all the information collected. On this website, the user can view a dashboard that shows the most recent data collected by all the sensors. The user could then view a chart and table of the data collected by each sensor.
High School Research Project
I started working on the high school research project in my sophomore year and continued for three years. In this project, I worked with Dr. Jason Keleher, Professor James Hofmann, and graduate students from Lewis University. This project was studying to find a way to prevent laser strikes on airplanes by using liquid crystal technologies. It incorporated aspects of chemistry, physics, and data analysis. When presenting this research at Illinois State University High School Research Symposium, I was awarded the graduate research award for being voted the best project overall.
Recursive Understanding
I created the image to the left in this school project using recursion. I worked on this project to understand how recursion works and to visually represent what is occurring. This project had it where each time the recursive method was called, a new rectangle, 50% smaller than the previous, would be built from each accessible corner. Building out each corner worked from left to right and top to bottom. The base case of the recursive methods setup so that only seven layers of rectangles were built.