Author Archives: slin1923

Final Piece Wood-Engraved Concept Art Starting to Shade More Shading Almost Done

https://youtu.be/y2jDuB1TCk4 Overview: To combat the army of bike thieves in Berkeley, we fight wrenches and cable cutters with… borderline harassment! Please check out the YouTube video linked to get a full breakdown of what we made. Even if you don’t care about the technical aspects of the work, I highly encourage you to at leastContinueContinue reading “Bike Thief Shafter”

Semiconductors: A Microcosmic Manufacturing Marvel A rare picture I was allowed to take away from the Nikon microscope I sat at for much of this internship Over the summer of 2021, I was blessed with the opportunity to intern in-person with Formfactor Inc., the leading provider of semiconductor metrology equipment and a cornerstone to theContinueContinue reading “Formfactor Inc. Internship”

A new year is upon us! We are all too eager to leave 2020 behind and travel onward. Check out my calisthenics progress and hold me accountable for my goals! I will be updating every 6 months! As this is my first calisthenics-related post I will provide some background. I enjoy calisthenics. What better wayContinueContinue reading “Calisthenics Update 1”

This philosophical topic is inspired by a late-night conversation with my housemate. In this tangent, I touch on religion and my stance on it. I write this post with no bias towards any one religion and I respect an individual’s freedom to practice any religion they feel inclined to believe. I will not dive intoContinueContinue reading “Finding Objective Truth”

Yellowstone Photos My family and I decided to spend our 2020-2021 transition at Yellowstone, where the temperature never peaked above 25 oF and reached -5 oF after dark. As a native of southern California, where it has not snowed in the 20 years of my residence there, the weather was a testament to my toleranceContinueContinue reading “Yellowstone: Winter 2020”

Chess and Go run in my family.  As a product of western society, I grew up playing Chess. However, my dad, who grew up on mainland China, is a lifelong Go player.  We are different in similar ways.  Each of us knows the basic rules of the other game, though we are by no meansContinueContinue reading “Chess vs Go”

First Post! And I officially am on the grid, forever :).