Macbook Air 2020 USB C port replacement
Replacing the faulty USB-C port of a 2020 MacBook Air (Intel)
Holo pet
Extended time with the Microsoft HoloLens sparked an idea: what if a virtual pet could live in the real world? A holographic companion that responds to hand gestures, voice commands, and follows you through mixed reality.
Bringing 3D to Zoom (Teleconference)
A Cross Reality Teleconference Bridge to Incorporate 3D Interactivity to 2D Teleconferencing
Volumetric Training
Volumetric visual cue enhanced spatial perception in the tested MR training tasks, exhibiting increased co-presence and system usability while reducing mental workload and frustration.
How to get a motorcycle for free?
How picking up two unregistered motorcycles from an insurance auction, and one clever parts swap, resulted in a road-legal bike for free.
First Contact : XR for Good
An art installation that uses various modes of Extended Reality (XR) to support social engagement and generate connections with a view to reversing processes of societal atomisation and intercultural discomfort (racism).
NeuralDrum
Leveraging cognitive synchronization to create a collaborative music production experience with immersive visualization in virtual reality.
Hyperscanning
Comparisons between Real and Virtual Environments using Hyperscanning
Hybrid Office
What are the functional, programmatic and technical parameters for a home office that allows for remote collaboration by applying architectural cross reality design principles?
Remote Collaboration - Spatial Audio
The effects of spatial auditory and visual cues on mixed reality remote collaboration
Wearable Remote Fusion
Realtime remote collaboration system.
How the Garage Happened
How a PhD student on a tight scholarship accidentally stumbled into car flipping, learned to wrench, and funded skiing, surfing, and road trips across New Zealand.
Engraved Acrylic LED Light accessory
Scavenging spare components from the MagicMirror project to build something cool!
Integrating speakers into a Motorcycle Helmet
Bringing the music inside the helmet.
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Final Touches
The Mirror is finally ready. A satisfying end to one of the most interesting projects to date.
First Car
Moving onto bigger projects - the freedom of having four wheels.
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Building the Hardware
After getting the software side of things up and running, it is time to build the hardware, the cost-efficient way.
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Creating Custom Modules
Time to turn specific requirements into reality by writing custom modules.
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Idea and Inspiration
A six-month bed rest after ACL surgery in 2016 created the unexpected opportunity to start building things. After days of browsing DIY projects on Pinterest, the Magic Mirror project emerged as the first step toward something that felt like real-world Augmented Reality.
Ambilight
Ambilight, short for "ambient lighting", is originally a lighting system for televisions developed by Philips, however today it is used in reference to all types and brands of ambient lighting in the context where lighting is utilized to complement the light coming from your main display.
Building a shelf instead of cleaning the table
The table is always a mess, full of electronics. Tidying up is not fun, so a shelf was built instead.
Join the adventure
At five years old, an electronics starter kit introduced LEDs and stepper motors and the hook was set. About a decade later, a new obsession arrived: computers. This is where it all started.