I'm Joel
I'm a high school student, developer and a content creator based in Melbourne, Australia.
My programming journey started in 2015 with a 3 day gamedev program. Nearly 10 years later, I'm still working on projects that interest me - some big, some small, and some much more impactful than others.
Creating personal projects, as well as participating in competition teams has allowed me to build familiarity with many technologies in various areas of software engineering, such as the web, mobile, mixed reality and artificial intelligence 🤓
This site includes a non-comprehensive list of projects. Keep scrolling 😊
Projects
Robotic Guinea Pig
2016
Made as a substitute for real guinea pigs in Animal Assisted Therapy. Targets refugees/people who have experienced significant trauma.
Smart Water Meter
2017
Prototype for a device that would track water usage for households.
Virtual Reality Video Chat
2018
Prototype for immersive video chat experiences (involving olfactory and haptic senses as well) designed for astronauts with long mission times.
Mixed Reality Space Transformation
2019
Utilises AR technologies to bring digital structures into a real space, creating opportunities for community interaction while minimising construction cost of facilities.
Minecraft Plugins
2021
Series of Minecraft Spigot plugins (Java). Developed OOP concepts.
Custom Browser
2021
Attempt at creating a web browser. Multiple iterations with different technologies including WebView2, Electron, and eventually attempting to patch Chromium source code.
Robocup (Australia)
2021
Proportional line follower.
Open World Video Game
2021
Attempt at using procedural generation to create a Minecraft-like open world.
Quizlet Clone
2022
Attempted flashcard platform with spaced repetition, user authentication and document saving.
Megaphone
2022
Twitter clone with post saving and user authentication.
AI Generated Genshin Music
2022
Uses a custom-trained version of Google's Magenta model to generate Genshin music.
Personal Site
2023
This thing you're looking at right now :)
Amethyst Screenshot
2023
Screenshot tool to make pretty screenshots.
FIRST Website Remake
2023
Remake of firstinspires.org, to learn TailwindCSS
Minecraft Command Macro
2023
Macro to enter a large amount of Minecraft commands.
SpeedWriter
2023
Uses the HuggingFace Inference API with GPT-2 (or other models) to do next-token prediction. Eventually evolved into text generation.
isGPT
2023
Detector to tell if a piece of text/a website has been made with ChatGPT or similar text-generation AI. Had greater accuracy then ZeroGPT in determining the origin of the US Constitution.
Potentiometer Instrument
2023
Uses a potentiometer to alter pitch, because it's funny.
Rhythm Game
2023
iOS app to measure the accuracy of a person's internal beatkeeping.
Buer
2023
Text summary and OCR Discord bot.
Firetrace 🔥
2023
Bushfire prediction that regular people can use. For Australia.
Project Cards
2023
Generate pretty project cards for your project.
moovifier
2023
Add movement to videos in real-time, to cut down on time spent in an editing program like After Effects.
leucas
2023
Generate Beluga-like Discord conversations using webhooks.