dipzo: Babble

Hello!

My name is Darius Gai and I am a student at the University of Waterloo studying Mechatronics Engineering. This is a blog of my projects, work, and other little thoughts or ideas I might have.

Work:

Summer 2010: Server Programmer – Large Animal Games, New York City, USA
Fall 2009: Multi-platform Applications Programmer/ Systems Designer – Heliospectra, Borås, Sweden
Winter 2009: Controls Engineer – General Motors, St. Catharines, ON
Summer 2008: Production Supervisor – General Motors, St. Catharines, ON
Fall 2007: Web Developer and Technical Analyst – CUMIS, Burlington, ON
Winter 2007: Nuance – Quality Assurance Engineer – Nuance, Montreal, QC

Current Projects:
I wish I had never said – a twist on the confession booth
What you fill in the web page will be projected onto a “fog screen” constructed by the students and displayed at the critical media lab in downtown Kitchener, Ontario

Previous Projects:
Mastermind – An electronic version of the old Mastermind board game.

ToDo List – An Arduino hardware based ToDo list.

Lazy Bartender – An automated bartending system, controlled through a computer

- Goal is to create the entire project for less than 200 dollars.
- So far the hardware is completely created and ready for a two beverage system. Software is currently under development.

UrbanDrinks.com – Portland, Oregon Happy Hour Listing
- Extended the site with use of third party APIs (adding new happy hour listings with twitter, creating a Google Gadget)
- Worked on the creation of Events for happy hour locations

GlobeBot – A robot that can be controlled from anywhere in the world through the internet

World Racer – An arcade machine remake of the original motocross game (Excitebike) for NES, made entirely in Java.