Senior Project: Smart Medical Drawer System
This smart medical drawer system was designed for various proposed use cases, but was specifically designed with public safety in mind. It was part of a larger vision of allowing members of the public to act as first responders, with EMT-guided access to life-saving medications. This project utilized a custom – Arduino controlled circuit, as well as an IOS app which utilized bluetooth for control of the drawer.
News iOS App
This project was the culmination of the React Bootstrap News Web App and the Non-Framework Based News Website. This app was developed in Xcode for iOS, and features a persistent system-wide bookmarking system, context menus, toasts, article searching, amongst other features. This project required me to interact with various APIs such as the Guardian’s news API, OpenWeatherMap’s weather API, Google’s Trends API, and Bing’s Autosuggest API. The backend was an exercise in reusability, using the same GCP/Balena.IO hosted backend.
React Bootstrap News Web App
In this project, I utilized React Bootstrap to create a responsive news web app. This project utilizes the New York Times and Guardian APIs, and parses and displays JSON data received from these sources. The web app contains various sorted sections and allows for switching between the different news APIs, and also features a search function that incorporates Bing’s Autosuggest API. Additionally, this web app features toasts, article sharing, and bookmark feature. Browser setting persistence was also explored in this project, with source selection and bookmarks being stored across user sessions. Hosted on GCP and Balena.IO.
Non-Framework Based News Website
For this project, I was limited to using HTML, CSS, and Java Script to code the front end, and Python to code the backend. The web app, which pulls its data from the News API (alternative Google News API), has multiple features, including: a formatted word cloud that is filtered from the top headlines to only show the most used words, two news sections separated by news source, and a search feature that allows users to search for relevant articles from a variety of news sources, categories, and date ranges. Hosted on GCP.
Capstone Project: Biometric Secured USB
The idea for this project was from a story heard from someone in industry stating how USB devices could not be used in their workplace, due to the security issue of insecure USBs. As a step towards a solution, I thought of a way to create a way to add authentication to USBs using a hardware approach of a fingerprint sensor and an Arduino board. Although this was simply a proof-of-concept project, it shows that biometric security can be used to secure USB access, especially when traditional software access-control methods cannot be used. For production use, hardware security must be added to prevent tampering, and this access method would be used in addition to other authentication methods.
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