UCI has a tradition of students making and distributing stickers called Petrs using their mascot Peter the Anteater. So many of these stickers have been made that it’s hard to keep track of who made which Petr. This project aims to simplify the experience by documenting each sticker and allowing creators to test out the popularity of their design before committing to making them.
A website to map out flight paths between airports. By using the coordinates of each airport, we can calculate the shortest path around the globe using the great circle calculations and graph them. Using this data, we can also calculate the distance, time, and the carbon output for each leg of your trip. This was inspired by a MATLAB application written by Joel Lawson, a PhD student (now a thermal engineer at SpaceX) at Caltech.
Passwords should have three properties, they should be unique, long, and have a high entropy. Unfortunately, this leads to passwords that are hard to remember and type. While password managers fix many of these problems there are still some passwords we should remember by heart like the passwords to our computer, email, and of course our password manager. By making a password from 6 words we can make it secure and easy to remember. This project was inspired by the XKCD comic number 936 named "Password Strength"
A demonstration of Lenz's law using a magnet and three tubes made of copper, aluminum, and acrylic. The position data of a falling magnet was collected and used to find the dipole moment and the strength of the magnet. This is a nice exercise to show forces that we don't usually have an intuition for.