Hello! Thanks for visiting my page.
My name is Ian, and I’m a current undergrad Electrical Engineer at Yale with a passion for tinkering, making, and DIY. This website serves a portfolio and devlog of my favorite personal project over the years. If you want to get in touch, see the contact page!
I started programming when I was 10 years old after relative gifted me a kids’ book on Python (thank you Warren and Carter Sande!) I immediately tore through it in a matter of weeks. I was fascinated by the process of getting computers to automate calculations and daily tasks, and started to imagine all the things I could do with my new-found skill.
Around the same time, I started building soldering kits at my local electronics store. I fell in love with all the classic build-your-own projects—from light sensing buzzer bugs to customizable LED banners.
I spent a few years begging my parents for soldering kits at every chance I had. Eventually I had built all the ones I could find, and started to think about making my own designs. I had high aspirations, like building my own wireless charger (back before they were commercially available!) and automatic hot-chocolate brewing machine. However as a middle-schooler I didn’t have the circuit skills to wire-up much more than a few resistors and LEDs by myself.
I was introduced to Arduino in the summer of 2015 and immediately fell in love. Microcontrollers perfectly married my passions for programming and circuitry that, until then, had been kept separate.
In 2015, I built my first self-designed project with Arduino.
It was the first prototype of the “FingerPass” project included on this page!
This marked the beginning of a lifetime passion for tinkering and DIY projects. As I grew older, I read more books, took classes, and tried new projects to push my skills. This website serves to document my progress and share my projects with the world!