jotted - a place to send my stories

I have been writing short stories and pieces of books for sometime. I decided I should put some, or even all of them out into the world.

"jotted" is the place where I will post sections of books and parts of stories. I hope that people will enjoy them or help me improve them.

And who knows, maybe after awhile I'll just compile jotted into a book like I did "The Space Economy."

Prose Aloud - Website for audio poetry

Prose Aloud is a new project I've started to create audio versions of famous poetry. This came about when I realized that there are few to no good recordings of poetry. Also I needed to expand my cultural awareness into that area for a little while.

Below is the first compilation of poems that I read.

Just Playing

"Just Playing" is a YouTube channel I started to present videos of my original piano songs. I basically improvise for a few minutes on the piano while I'm practicing.

There is a lot of piano stuff on YouTube, but I might as well maximize the value of my time playing the piano by publishing some of what I do.

WhiteCapStudios

WhiteCapStudios is a new podcast channel that I started on SoundCloud to try comedy and music publishing. I have some short stand-up comedy routines as well as original piano songs.

See WhiteCapStudios

The Space Economy Book

I finally collected all of the essays I wrote, along with Dan Hermes, into a book. "The Space Economy" is on Kindle and will be available in print. It is my little contribution to the industry until I start building hardware for it.

The Space Economy on Amazon

Jotters

Who says the notebook is dead? Jotters is a project I started to keep one of my favorite mediums going.

Notebooks haven't changed for decades, and they suck! The paper is thin, the binding is flimsy and constantly deranged, and they really don't capture the imagination.

I made Jotters to be the perfect notebooks for students. They have hardcovers, specially designed interiors for a variety of purposes (i.e. note-taking, drawing) and have QR links to Jotlink a web directory of many of the web's best student resource sites. (Though Jotlink is still in development)

Purchase a Jotter

RE-Lecture

RE-Lecture is a YouTube channel I created and curate with advanced engineering problems that I make when I do my homework.

How often do you look for a video to get help on your homework. Probably pretty often. But the trouble is, as you get into tougher stuff the videos become more of the lectures that your professor already gave you and less of an answer to your problem.

RE-Lecture is a way to cure this, by keeping the student's perspective on problems so that the videos can help other students. I am working to get other capable students involved in filming their homework so that when someone in a 400 level class needs help they don't get a lecture from a professor, but an explanation by someone else who also had to figure it out and understands what they're going through.

We lecture is also great for those making the videos. I have turned the channel into a revenue stream and explaining my work out loud so that others can understand helps me retain it better as well.

The first batch of videos I made had terrible sound. But since I'm getting over 1000 views a week now I have upgraded my equipment to make RE-Lecture a professional channel as opposed to an amateur one.

Here is one of my first and most popular videos on a robotics topic.

WISE

WISE was a book that was made from essays on my blog When I Say Eureka. I started to publish the book but when  I looked at the first copy I decide to wait a little longer to grow and focus the book more. I expect to have a fully published version by, no later than winter of 2015

TIMDS

TIMDS. Thoughts. Ideas. Minds. Designs. Sketches.

TIMDS is a blog dedicated to great design ideas. Whether for aesthetics or function. Whether they had a large impact of a small one. Whether they are conceptual or manufactured. I wanted to create a place where designers and inventors, such as myself, could go and get inspiration from the great ideas that are created by others everyday while recognizing the significance of those ideas.

I intend to grow TIMDS into an independent entity/business as opposed to just a side-project blog. But in the mean time, I just like writing about the stuff that I think is awesome.

PaperWeb

PaperWeb was an effort by UniMech to revive the dwindling newspaper industry. I was unique in the fact that it combined printed newspaper format with internet content through the use of a kind of augmented reality setup on the page.

We didn't get the response we wanted from our test printing so the idea was abandoned though I still think it has potential.

3-D Advertising

These were advertising that I came up with for one of my businesses. They are good at grabbing attention. People will definitely see this no matter how many other normal flyers are around them. They also can just be dropped without having to pin them to anything.

A Video of My Voice Impressions

I enjoy doing some impressions from time to time. So I decided to make this video