# Ben's Notebook Spring 2024 <img src="https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0HTW3H0V-F06G55GQX19/img_3708.jpg?pub_secret=6a38196899" style="border-radius: 50px"> ## BIO-LLUFOGRAPHY Hi, I'm ben! (I prefer lowercase, honestly.) Big fan of using software's power to make cool things, but a pencil-and-paper guy at heart. #### random things about me: * Adobe creative type: [the Producer](https://mycreativetype.com/type/producer/) #### duality! * I snowboard/ski * I play violin/viola * I'm Dutch Chinese American #### tools I can help others with: * general debugging * simple electronics / coding * organization #### my goals: I want to get better at approaching new tools, especially software, but also feeling able to make my own hardware to make cool things. I tend to shy away from newness, so I want to learn to not necessarily feel more comfortable but at least push myself out there more often. ## Log * MON 1/29: logistics, carved "2024" stamp * THU 2/1: researched paper cutout/popup design software, created prototype net for envelope * FRI 2/2: "In Pod We Truss" ep.1 with Clarissa * MON 2/5: Photoshopping stills, printing buttons for Journalism class with Talulah * THU 2/8: Gold Expos workshop - learned ME & cam setup with Casey * FRI 2/9: Pod 2 - cutting out paper slides, built mini-green-screen-stage with Clarissa * MON 2/12: AI Sociolegal Gov(?) class workshop help, small bit of AE - first full workshop! * THU 2/15: Greeted French class, tried out Unity tutorials w/ Elisa * FRI 2/16: Video game workshop - controller support in Unity, Stone Talus costume * WED 2/21: Video game workshop day - locked out, buttons, Untitled Goose Game * THU 2/22: Workshop cleanup - rainbow circles * FRI 2/23: Keynote - people graphic, pie chart * MON 2/26: more Keynote - circles & mass spectrometry / ion machines