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Posts from Engineering
Battle Code
There was a time when learning JAVA, that I wanted to make an offensive pokemon clone. I wish I hadn't made it offensive, so then I would share the whole thing, but I've combed through and taken the battling part of the code to share here. [su_box title="Battle.java"...
Physics is Hard
While teaching myself JAVA in highschool, I spent a bit of time writing a projectile velocity calculator. Now, it's been a while since I've coded. I don't know how coherent the code is or how well it works. But here is the code and a zipped JAVA program if anyone...
Martin Dreadnought
This is my baby, cleverly named Martin. A Martin Dreadnought, DXM Natural 2003. It's not top of the line, but it's everything I need in an acoustic guitar. Bought June 9th 2017 for $395 used. I played this every day on my lunch break in the parking lot when I was...
StratoBASStard
Okay this one is a little different. I once asked myself; "Has anyone out there made a fretless bass/ electric guitar hybrid?" I couldn't find one like the design I had in my head. So I decided to challenge myself to build one. Unfortunately I can't find the hand...
Stratobastard
This is one of my electric guitars. The tuning pegs and machines on the EAD strings tune in reverse as the set was from a different guitar. The pickups are custom single coil and a humbucker at the bridge The pick-guard is custom painted
Frank the Fire Hazard
Frank V1 When upgrading an old computer, I made a stupid mistake. I bought the wrong size motherboard. So, the logical choice was to go onto Newegg and buy the right size case, or return the motherboard for one that was the right size. Unfortunately, I was out...
Pitch Scale
The assignment was to create a weighing scale. Some used springs, some used rubber bands, I used guitar strings. Using the equations above, I built a scale that used tension on a guitar string as an indicator for the mass of a load. There are 3 variables that...
Music Journal: All Pages
At the beginning of my time at WWU, I started independently studying music theory to get better at guitar. Everything I know about music theory and sound engineering is written in this blue moleskine notebook. I'll continue to post pages from it that have relevant...