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Moisture-Sensing Automatic Garden Watering System

Ashley Enderlin, Ryan Taylor and I developed an automatic moisture-sensing garden watering system for DMC's rooftop garden on FedEx Day this year. This solar powered watering system constantly monitors the moisture content of the soil and uses...


DMC Chicago Welcomes its Newest Engineer

This is only my second month at DMC, and so far everything is going great. I’ve had the opportunity to work for a couple of exceptional companies prior to DMC, and so my expectations of what a great job ought to be were already pretty high. ...


Ping Pong App Upgraded

For FedEx Day 2014, I worked on upgrading the user interface and functionality of the DMC Ping Pong App. This involved upgrading the hardware from a 7’ tablet to a 21.5’ one, working with Ela to redesign the skin, add graphics, and add ne...


VR Labyrinth: Exploring the Tilt Table with an Oculus Rift

If you have been following DMC I’m sure you’ve seen or heard of our awesome tilt table demo. The latest big news is that our demo has made a leap into the future. That’s right, were talking about Virtual Reality! Not those silly adv...


Spring Cleaning the DMC Network

For my Fed-Ex Day project, I worked on creating a new DHCP structure for DMC. This was a project that for the most part was not critical, but was something I wouldn’t have done in a normal day. The main goal was to help clean up and organize...


DMC Highlight Cam Project

For Fed Ex Day 2014 Devon, Otto, and I worked on the DMC Highlight Cam Project. The end goal of the DMC Highlight Cam project is three-fold: Have a camera mounted so that it can continually record all activity at the ping pong table (or any ...


The DMC Portal: Connecting Chicago and Boston

For my FedEx Day project, I worked from DMC Boston on the DMC Portal (a name-in-progress). The DMC Portal is a system of two stations – one in DMC Chicago, the other in DMC Boston – with a computer, television, and webcam apiece. These...


Visual Studio Template Solution

After working on a number of .NET WPF applications, DMC has developed a standard framework we like to use for our application development. This involves setting up our architecture and directory in a way that allows for loose coupling and separation ...


Who Watches the Watchmen: DMC Engineers Grade their Project Managers

For FedEx Day 2014, Cesar, Jack and I worked on a data mining project that investigated sales estimates on various projects at DMC. The result of the day’s work was a report with several insightful metrics, charts and distributions that illustr...


Office 365 & Sharepoint Custom Packaged Solutions

David and I spent the DMC Fed Ex Day putting together information that describes a dozen packaged solutions that DMC has developed for SharePoint and Office 365. For each solution, we authored a description of the solution along with a list of f...


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