For Christmas, in addition to the WeMo switch I also got the Amazon Echo Dot. It's a great device, but it was a little bit complicated to work into my AI setup. Ideally, I would change it's wake word to 'Victor', and be able to add in custom actions, like 'Victor, play [movie] on Netflix'. I quickly learned,...

For Christmas, one of the gifts that I got was a Belkin WeMo Switch. It was only $30 on sale, and while it had middling reviews (like many of the WiFi-switches), it could be controlled through cURL commands, which made it very easy to hook into Victor. So I set it up, plugged in my light, and spent like 20 minutes...

But of course, that isn't the end. Not even close. In the beginning of fall term of junior year, my computer was once again right next to the TV, and my levels of laziness had reached an all time high. I once again started to think of ways that I could control Spotify, Netflix, and my movies from the comfort of the...

I started this blog when I first got to Dartmouth. I'm now over a term into my junior year, and I still haven't mentioned one of my largest ongoing projects, and by far the one that I get the most enjoyment out of: Victor. It was around the summer of my freshman year when I first started messing around with the...

When you're requesting pages (such as transcripts, DASH, etc.) through Dartmouth Banner, you slowly accumulate cookies. But only one of them is actually used to verify who you are: the SESSID one. It's a base64 encoding of what appears to be 6 random alphanumerics, followed by your PIDM, the Banner specific code...

It's been a while since I've played with the Dartmouth ID's, but my brother got me a Magnetic Reader-Writer for Christmas, so I've been having a blast messing around with it. I wrote a bit about the magnetic stripe over 2 years ago, but most of that was conjecture from one VERY out of date article I found online....

When I first created Dog-a-Day, it ran off of a PHP script that had the images for the days in an array. I then decided to move it into a MySQL database, where I would insert URLs and dates. That quickly became too much of a hassle, and I created a simple form that would take in a URL, and automatically calculate...

I posted about ShiftCycle before, so read quickly about it if you missed that blog post. One of the ShiftCycle users messaged me a while ago asking to be able to reorganize the order of changes, which required a rewrite of how the tweak stored permissions.

For some reason, the deep-linking URLs aren't publicized anywhere by Facebook. In case you're looking for them, or in any other app, here's the process to follow. First figure out what the protocol is (for Facebook it's fb://, for Twitter it's twitter://, etc.). Then, download a cracked version of the app. You can...

Dart Dine was the culmination project for CS89, Human Computer Interaction. Our goal was to revamp the Dartmouth meal site, which is located at http://nutrition.dartmouth.edu:8088. Our goal was to make a mobile app that would solve all of the UX/UI problems that the current site had, especially when accessing it on...

A while ago I wrote a Sudoku solver in Python that could programmatically step through the solution, solve the whole thing, or show what options were available for each location. It ended up being a good distraction while I was on a plane with no internet. However, I was on yet another long plane ride and decided to...

A while ago I was designing a website, and wanted a good color blue. However, I'm incredibly indecisive when it comes to choosing color palettes. I envisioned some site that would allow me to type in 'blue', and it would give me the ideal blue color. This idea was fleshed out into Colorize. It takes in a search...