My AI playground. This is where I host an array of open-source AI projects, coded by me. I have a fascination with AI, and while researching it, I identified several potential products that didn't yet exist but were in demand. I couldn't just stand by waiting for large companies to develop these things, so I just made them myself and made them open source. I learned how to create a website from concept to launch, how to integrate a backend with advanced code, and how to maintain cost-effectiveness.

I've always loved making videos. I started my first YouTube channel in April 2016, and made videos with my friends. In May 2020, I started a new channel called Pohakoo, where I make videos about whatever I'm interested in. While making content for this channel, I developed my fascination with VFX and video editing. I watch a hours and hours of content from channels that explain how VFX in movies are made.

I have huge respect for my freshman biology teacher this year, Mr. Yamamoto. I didn't want to dissect a rat because I don't like hurting animals, and he suprised me by asking what I wanted to be when I grew up. I already knew by this time that I wanted to be a programmer, so he said I could code a rat dissection simulation along with a breakdown of the human body. This made me love this class, and I worked for a long time to create something that I was really proud of. He then used it to teach my class. I'm so happy I got to do this project.

My FRC robotics team. I joined the team when I joined the school, and I quickly became lead programmer. I've overseen coding for three different robots, and I coded in Java. I have also trained 3 other people with no programming experience to code the robot after I graduate. The autonomous code I wrote for our robot won the Autonomous Award sponsored by Ford at an official robotics competition. Our team has won first place in 4 competitions over 18 years, 2 of which were while I was on the team, during my sophomore and junior years (senior year competitions haven't started yet). I also created the website that you see when you click here.

One of the challenges for my robotics team was to pick up yellow cones with our robot. Our robot design had a hard time picking up the cones from certain angles, so I created a Unity project that created and exported hundreds of pictures of yellow cones from different angles, rotations, lighting environments, etc, and used a convolusional neural network to get our robot to recognize which way the cone was facing. It was not completed in time for competition.

Here is a film that I wrote, directed, and edited for my Film Club elective at school.

A simulaion of the Vietnam War I created as part of a research project.

A really cool interactive game I made as part of a current events project at school that explains quantum computing, its possibilities, and its implications.