Jimmy's blog

Essays on robotics, startups, artwork.

  • Reflecting on how much easier it is to take a panorama compared to 10 years ago

    This photo was taken circa 2007 in Philadelphia, PA. Back then digital photography was still becoming popular and panoramas weren’t as easy as a rotating your phone. This is a combination of HDR (blending 3 photos with 3 different exposures taken from the same position) and panaroma (stitching together photos from 10 different positions) for…

  • Robot sketches

    Ink and copic marker.

  • Landscape sketches

    Ink and copic marker.

  • Random Walkers

    Try the interactive version yourself.

  • Waves

    Experimenting with the Perlin noise() function in Processing. Play here.

  • Circles

    I wrote a little interactive web app that allows me to generate this piece of patterns and colors. You can try it out for yourself here.

  • My notes on salary and equity

    Managing is about making decisions quickly and more importantly, correctly. Every decision I need to make, I can discuss with my team except for determining their salary and equity numbers which is a solo endeavor. This makes it all the more important as a VPE or manager that you get this process right to do…

  • Moped

    Michael Park introduced me to the zen of moped maintenance and helped me fix up this two stroke engine from the 1970s. Elegance = Power / Complexity

  • Curly Hair

    I asked Noreen if we could push the envelope of what’s possible with hair. Falon wanted big and curly. Above: Falon Hair: Noreen Fox Make up: Carinn Kanaki