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# Ben's Notebook Spring 2024

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## 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
