Jake Tan
Competition Season is Here!
The FIRST® Robotics Competition 2023 season has just begun. My team (FRC Team 341, Miss Daisy) has spent the last two months building the...
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Jake Tan
- Jan 18
- 2 min
New Data Science Project for 2023
Last year, I worked on a data science project based on Graham Allison’s Thucydides Trap idea. This year, I am going to do a different...
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Jake Tan
- Jan 15
- 1 min
The Future of Manufacturing Unfolding
The growing power and falling cost of 3-D printing has implications for how, when, and where all kinds of products are manufactured, from...
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Jake Tan
- Dec 15, 2022
- 2 min
Meeting with Professors at JSM
Over the four days I spent at JSM back in August, I met with four different college professors. I think I gained a lot of knowledge even...
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Jake Tan
- Oct 15, 2022
- 2 min
My First Time at JSM
From August 7 to 10, I was in Washington D.C. to attend the Joint Statistical Meetings to present my project about the Thucydides Trap....
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Jake Tan
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
Mechanum Wheel
This is a mechanum wheel I printed for my robotics team. Its purpose is when rotated, anything that comes in contact with it will be...
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Jake Tan
- Aug 19, 2022
- 1 min
Meeting with Prof. Santiago Segerra
Something that stood out in my meeting with Professor Santiago Segerra was the new strategies he suggested for expanding and testing my...
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Jake Tan
- Jul 19, 2022
- 1 min
Meeting with Prof. Devika Subramanian
My meeting with Professor Devika Subramanian at Rice was particularly interesting because she had done work very similar to mine. She...
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Jake Tan
- Jun 19, 2022
- 1 min
Meeting with Prof. Akane Sano
Continuing with my series of meetings with computer science professors from Rice, I met Dr. Akane Sano. She had done large amounts of...
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Jake Tan
- May 19, 2022
- 1 min
Meeting with Prof. Genevera Allen
My second meeting at Rice was with Professor Genevera Allen. We mainly talked about the Rice Data to Knowledge (D2K) lab. The D2K lab is...
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Jake Tan
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
Meeting with Prof. Chris Jermaine
Because of the FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) World Championship, I'm in Houston. Since I arrived several days before the rest of my...
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Jake Tan
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
Map of the World
For a school project, I wanted to visually show how the world would be affected by terminator seeds by mapping the percentage of each...
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Jake Tan
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
Lyre Holder
Since I am in marching band, I need a way to hold my music for when we play in the stands. But the lyre (music holder) I bought was for...
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Jake Tan
- Nov 12, 2021
- 1 min
Pythagoras Cup
I printed a Pythagoras cup I got online so I could test the amount of unsupported holes I could get away with so I printed it vertically....
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Jake Tan
- Nov 12, 2021
- 1 min
Butterfly Knife
I printed two butterfly knifes I got from Thiniverse, I did this because I wanted to see how 3d printed moving parts would work and how...
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Jake Tan
- Sep 16, 2021
- 1 min
New 3d Printer!
I built my new 3d printer called the Prusa MK3+. It is the first large piece of machinery I have built. The majority, while time...
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Jake Tan
- Aug 12, 2021
- 1 min
Doge Vandire
I printed this model from the internet as a decorative piece. It is a parody of a Warhammer 40k character named Goge Vandire. The base is...
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Jake Tan
- Jul 1, 2021
- 1 min
Dragonslayer Statue
I decided to take a break from the sand soldier because I was getting frustrated with the forearms and hands falling off. The several...
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Jake Tan
- May 30, 2021
- 1 min
Sand Soldier Post 3
I updated the model but there is still an empty space between the head and the torso I am not sure why is missing, I am going to add an...
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Jake Tan
- May 10, 2021
- 1 min
Sand Soldier Part 2
This is the same model from the previous post but printed much larger. Other than the spear, the shoulder piece, cape, and head all came...
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