History:
Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant opened its first location in Newark, Pennsylvania in 1996 with a team of two award-winning homebrewers and an experienced restaurant professional. Since 1996, they added six more locations in Pennsylvania and Delaware with plans for more. They are among the top 100 brewers in the United States according to RateBeer.com […]

I just finished working on my final Engineering Week video at Bucknell. Just like last year, each major must create a video that embodies engineering in their specific discipline. The video is the highest rated event, culminating a week of intense competitions between engineering majors. All the points prior to the video are tallied and […]

This article is a follow-up to my previous article to detail how I created my stop-motion film “Passing By.”

Choosing Your Subject

This part is fairly subjective. For stop-motion films, just about any subject can be entertaining in stop-motion, but in limited quantities. Harping on the same location or subject for a long period of […]

Since the beginning of Summer into early Fall, I’ve been compiling photos shot continuously during travel on numerous modes of transportation. All the photos were batch processed in Adobe Lightroom before being imported into NLE software. All the photos were taken on a high resolution digital camera versus my standard DV cam, allowing me to […]

Ever since staying at the W Hotel in NYC, I’ve wanted to grow the grass that they have throughout their lobby. The grass is very green and I figured it would make a great desk/office plant. However, determining what type of grass it is has been quite difficult. I ended up buying organic barley grass […]

About six or seven year ago, Grant and I went in on a few seed packs from eBay to grow bonsai plants.  Among these was the rare African (Adansonia) Baobab, which is apprently pretty hard to germinate.  The Baobab tree is known for its excessively large swollen trunks used to store water for 9 months of the year. This […]

As a test to see what I’ve learned at college, I was handed a recent lawn equipment catalog and asked to point out the falsities of a particular ad–a typical breakfast in the Pitel household.  The ad in question was for a fully electric lawn mower.  The mower was featured in a nice two page spread, but […]

Design Process
In order to better under the digital design process with respect to real-world applications, a two-way traffic light controller was designed. The traffic light operated in two modes:

Timed signal changing cycle with weight sensor input
The primary mode of operation is the standard timed signal changing. Additional logic was added to implement a weight sensor […]

Nothing passes the time like a good audiobook.  The only problem is that buying audiobooks from sources like Audible or iTunes is often pretty expensive.  However, the quality of these paid audiobooks is always top notch.  Most free audiobook sites only offer books that are in the public domain (i.e. old), so a good source of free […]

Yesterday, Rockstar Games released the long anticipated trailer for the new Grand Theft Auto game due out in October (10/16/07).  When I saw it, the first thing that came to mind was Koyaanisqatsi, a 1982 film by Godfrey Reggio.  In fact, the GTA IV trailer is a near replica of the film’s style, down to using the […]