I am currently employed by Lyrical Labs building a cloud based encoding system. Publishers install our service, upload from their dashboard, or make API calls to enter movies into our system which splits the movie into chunks and spins up workers to encoded the movie in parallel. The patent pending system is built in Amazon's cloud and, therefore, is highly scaleable and very reliable. The system uses a proprietary H.264 encoder built by Ed Ratner that saves 20-50% on bandwidth/storage costs with the same quality as the current standard encoder. read more

HDL Verilog Embedded Design Feasibility Study using Wall Avoiding Robots
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Reference: Dr. Steven Barrett

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An afternoon project that uses an algorithm I built based on turntable.fm votes powered by turntaste.com. It provides an up-to-date list of trending indie songs that feed into Spotify. View

Galleass is a browser native, massively multiplayer, real time strategy, facebook connect game centered around 15th century naval warfare. It is powered by a custom Java web server, HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, MySql, and I hand painted (oil) all the graphics. It is still in a pre-beta phase but here is a screenshot: http://austingriffith.com/galleass

Defeat the evil ants!

This single level game paved the way for my other Javascript/Java/PHP/MySql games.

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A chrome extension to help play songs that fit the current mood of your turntable.fm room. view turntaste.com or view an example list.


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Buy, raise, train, and race horses you create with horses your friends create. You can also place bets and chat as you watch the live races. As you build up your bank roll, you buy more horses and bigger stables. As you gain even more cash, you can buy tracks and even create public races from the huge selection of online horses.

Go Horse Racing on Facebook

I just recently purchased a midi keyboard, guitar, violin, and compressor mic to learn how to play and sing music. It's really fun and I'm learning a lot. I decided to make a song for my lady on her birthday. watch it

Using a plasma cutting table at my old job, and help from old co-workers, I put together a big ant farm with built in LEDs. view

My work during the early Douchebaggery art period...

(help me name the last few)

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I learned how to sew as a youngster (thanks mom!), but I've finally been able to put that knowledge to good use recently by sewing curtains for my house and a Halloween costume. view

Zak and I made a clip about the Naughty Pines roller derby team and submitted it to the Wyoming short film contest.

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For the past few years I have found a serious passion for drinking and making wine. Don't be fooled, I really don't know that much about it, but I've made a bunch of 6-gallon batches.

Check out my Wine Batch Log

Also, I built CheapWineLog.com to document wine tasting.

My brother and I hosted a golf tournament to celebrate graduating from college. It was 18 holes, drink a beer a hole, with a BBQ and three live bands afterwards. Read More...

For my senior design project Tom Kunkel and I built a drink mixer that could dispense over 200 different cocktails automatically.

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I put together a Modular EEG device from the Open EEG project and read some brain waves.
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AIBattle was an experiment into Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Agents. It is built to allow anyone to design and test simple algorithms on distributed agents.


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Reference: Dr. William Spears

A mobile wireless internet access point and web server that can be controlled remotely by computer or Play Station Portable (PSP)
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A project to clean up content:
Type Cinch

In early 2008, I created a step-by-step assembly manual for the plasma cutting tables at work. Although it may sound mundane, I really enjoyed it.

I built a custom online testing site that allows us to filter through hundreds of candidates to find the creme of the crop for interviews.

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For work, I wrote a program to parse our SMDR phone logs and another program in old school Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 to take in the log, interface with the database, and display reports about call volume and the likes.

Cookbook is a Facebook Application that allows users to create their own cookbook, share recipes with friends, and search the entire social network for something to cook. This project started at the f8 launch. A big thanks to Dennis for the logo!

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fbCollegeFootball is a collection of facebook applications for college football.

I created this simple little application to interface with my Nabaztag from my Facebook Profile

Social competition web application built to interface with the Facebook API

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fbtwit is a little afternoon project because I couldn't find a good way to transfer my Facebook status to Twitter. !

A collection of web applications I built to interface with the new Facebook API
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Economics game written in Java for the College of Agriculture at the University of Wyoming

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Reference: Jim Ward

My brother, some of our buddies, and I have made a few silly movies and I really enjoy the process. They are quite crude, but one day I would really like to invest more time and money into this hobby.
Quite Aquatic : Chroma Test
EP1 : Z Felonious
RIAA : First Attempt

Thanks to CafePress, I designed a few lame t-shirts that nobody would ever wear.

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Since early high school I have built and maintained various humor websites including the still active Ridiculism.com, which is a public link dump with democratic editorial control. (Warning: due to the nature of public controlled content, some entries may be... R-Rated)

I designed a fish feeder that was controlled by the parallel port of my Linux web server.

I am currently only a few hours away from getting my private pilot's license, but work is keeping me too busy. some stuff

Electronics 2 Lab Instructor at the University of Wyoming. For the final lab we built an amplifier and blasted some music from my iPod.

Reference: Dr. Stanislaw Legowski