Projects

Dan first started working on the computer in 1989 on an Apple Classic. Using Kid Pix, Claris Works, and MacDraw 1.1, he drew floor plans and got creative.

Dan Lynch was the principal designer of a traditional-style 2800+ sq. ft. two-story home while a drafting student at Huron High School. His design was selected for implementation and was built as the 31st home in the Ann Arbor Student Building Industry Program in 2001.

A visual editor CMS that Dan Lynch taught himself MySQL and PHP to build in 2006. The name "3DAet" comes from Dan simultaneously teaching at the Academy of Entertainment Technology (AET) while working at Side Effects Software (SESI). Originally asked by his manager Aliza to fix some "help files" at SESI, Dan realized the HTML and CSS could be managed procedurally. Inspired by his work with Flow-Based Programming at SESI, he built a custom CMS to search and manage his 3D artwork, which evolved in...

A platform that brings interactive, mathematical learning content to the iPad. This system is novel compared to previous systems because a reader can interact with the figures on the page and explore mathematical concepts. Scientific content increasingly relies on the presentation and authoring of complex multimedia diagrams and figures, sometimes interactive, to convey information in a non-textual way. Wikis and user-generated hyperlinked content have both been very successful in the case for t...

UC Berkeley EECS 149: Embedded Systems final project. The project's goal is to build a plotting robot. Along the way, we discovered through simulation that generating the path that a robot must traverse for a given drawing is not obvious. Many interesting geometric and algorithmic problems have been solved, and have been applied to this project. To abstract these algorithms, we have built a paired system connected through a bluetooth network that provides a graphical user interface. This interfa...

A 5-degree transduction project converting laser to plasma! Dan pitched the EECS parts department on an idea along with his EE40 professor, and got permission to build a custom project in the National Instruments Lab in Cory Hall at UC Berkeley. The project performed a 5X transduction: converting the breaking of laser beams through photoresistor to voltage to MIDI to audio to plasma. Thanks to Professor Josh Hug.

A consolidated system that enables people to (re-)design interactive graphics in a collaborative, creative workspace. This system is novel compared to previous systems because users can explore and author graphical content with the ability to re-use and re-design projects created by other users, hence, encouraging an example-centric model for authorship. The question is whether or not this system catalyzes the design process, which is two fold: does the system help people create content that the...

The second iteration of the MIDI Laser Harp was launched at the SubZERO festival in the SoFA district of San Jose, with the Codame Art+Tech community! Hundreds of people were able to experience the harp. This v2 version features photodiodes with 532nm wavelength and much faster nanosecond response times compared to the photoresistors used in v1.

Brandcast - a visual website editor that enabled designers to create responsive websites without code.

LaunchQL is a visual database builder that simplifies PostgreSQL development. It provides an intuitive interface for designing, managing, and deploying database schemas.

A Postgres Package Manager. Modular Postgres development with reusable packages, deterministic migrations, recursive dependency resolution, tag-aware versioning, and turnkey module-first workspaces.