Profiting from Email Stock Spam
I’ll be the first to admit that I had a bit too much free time in college. Back in 2006, Grant Jordan and I theorized we could make a profit buying stocks that were being touted by email spammers. We developed a method to visually fingerprint individual spammers and track their market returns over time. The method [...]
Robotic Safe Cracker v2
Grant Jordan and I built this safe cracking robot in 2006. It’s designed to open any safe that uses a Sergent and Greenleaf 8500 series lock. These locks are classified as “manipulation proof” by the manufacturer. The robot attaches to the front of a safe using two magnets at the base of the aluminum support [...]
My talk at Startup Bootcamp 2009
I shared a list of startup “productivity hacks” with several hundred aspiring entrepreneurs at MIT’s Startup Bootcamp conference. This was the largest conference I had been involved in at the time, so I think I seemed pretty nervous. Oh well. However, I did hear from several people that they found the content of my talk very useful, [...]