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Welcome to my personal wiki. I will probably just use this for random notes.

Software ideas

• Universal peer review
• Traffic wave suppression system
• Bicycle detection system for cars
• Automated trading for charity or social program
• Phone app that takes audio samples from cycling race commentary and plays them in response to a rider's performance via GPS
• OpenFOAM distribution for wind energy
• OpenFOAM virtual wind tunnel
• Foil data Python package
• MIDI light control that follows input signal (so no programming/backing track needed)
• Strava KOM Hunter -- use user's power curve to find segments that he or she may have a chance to KOM/QOM.
• Python package as a microservice (packms)

Project ideas

• Pedal powered air compressor
• Latching jack screw (to replace D-Tuna in Floyd Rose bridges)
• Bottle lock mount
• Guitar case for bike rack
• Aero bar tape to improve profile of standard bars
• Bike trailer
• Front bike rack

Research ideas

• Small riblet vortex generators (v-shaped) for delaying flow separation on foils--done already?
• Enhancing axial flow turbine wake recovery
• Automatically generating RANS models from DNS data

Product ideas

• Laundry basket with clean/dirty indicator
• Terry cloth thumb wrap for gloves/mittens
• Physically stretchable phone screen to turn into tablet