I would like to use this post to reflect on some of the progress I made this week. Meeting With Tyson This week I met with an old family friend, Tyson Tuttle, who has been the CEO of Silicon Labs for the past 7 years,…

Here is a pdf of my thesis proposal draft: Untitled document

I would like to use this post to reflect on this week’s assignments and progress, as well as lay out the plan for next steps. Dream Review “When was the last time you were alone with yourself? Truly alone? No checking your phone on the…

I wanted to use this post to digest my meetings with Andrew and Tom this week. From Andrew’s meeting, I was left thinking about what the creeping feeling is around my topic. I’ve read a lot of articles about the security of smart home networks…

In preparation for office hours with Andrew today, I wanted to make a couple of proofs of concept demonstrating Alexa commenting on my http/s traffic. I did this in two ways: I had my good friend Adam on a Zoom call where I screen-shared the…

I would like to use this post to digest some of my findings from tonight. One of my goals for this week is to have a proof of concept for live performance coming through my Echo speaker. I am planning on making two version and…

I would like to use this entry to digest some of the research I was doing today into the Amazon SDK. I think that there are many tools housed here that will enable me to do what I want without having to actually develop an…

After watching the resident’s thesis presentations I was inspired with some new ideas for my thesis; mainly ideas for intermediate projects that I could develop as next steps. I imagined having an Alexa skill that feeds your http/https traffic to an improv actor who comments…

Admittedly, this week became sidetracked by the deep freezes and power outages in Texas. Regardless, I would still like to use this entry to talk about the progress I have made conceptually as well as one experiment I was able to try. Is This A…