Frederick Dopfel 

Valentines day may be a "Hallmark holiday" to most, but that doesn't mean that it can't be a fun one. I happen to be a big fan of...

After joining the Stanford Student Space Initiative high-altitude balloon team, one of our first projects was to build and launch our own...

One of my first projects was creating a synchronized media library between multiple computers in multiple homes. The system worked well,...

What if I could use my existing neural style transfer program to apply the style of my doppelgänger's painting onto my own photo?

My computer has a pretty powerful GPU in my custom water cooling loop, and because I'm generally too busy to play video games, this power...

My parents live in a house with walls literally made of concrete and metal mesh, making each room effectively a faraday cage, AKA Wi-Fi...

Photogrammetry is the science of making measurements from photographs, but in modern times this science has been focused particularly on...

I am a strong believer in the potential for VR, and as a result, decided to experiment with building experiences in VR. After building in...

Unity is a game development platform that has become particularly important in virtual reality application development. As someone who is...

After experiencing virtual reality (VR) for the first time, my parents decided that they wanted a system of their own. However, rather...

DeepStyle is a deep learning algorithm similar to Deep Dream based off the research paper "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style". The...

Three of my friends and I created a team to enter a parody hackathon (media coverage here). We created a sterling-engine powered "social"...

After recently watching one of the old Harry Potter movies, I became very interested in the Weasley family’s magically automated home, in...

After building and water-cooling my personal computer with the performance to blow away even the most graphically intensive video games,...

I recently became interested in retro games, and wanted to build some sort of emulation station to play them. Initially, I thought I...

I have been building my own computers all my life, and designing them for performance (even if I don't use that performance) is one of my...

Despite the drought, it still occasionally rains in San Francisco. The rain's sparsity only makes it harder to remember an umbrella, so...

Ambilight is a discontinued feature on early Phillips flat panel TVs that used rear-facing fluorescent tubes to illuminate a wall behind...

Designed a simple Android app that displays ferry times for all the routes of the Golden Gate Ferry fleet. Automatically displays the...

I Designed a system to keep terabytes worth of multi-gigabyte files (a large HD movie collection) synchronized between three homes. One...