JONATHAN LANSEY


I am the founder of Loud Bicycle, data scientist at React Neuro, co-founder of Feline Magazine, and The AstroLedger Institute, a youtuber and a blogger at The LanseyBrothers Blog.
I made this site to document a few special projects, feedback is most welcome.

PROJECTS

GlyphGPT Trained Generative Pretrained Transformers (GPT) models from scratch to write new hieroglyphic texts. Oct, 2024
Heiroglyph of an awesome guy riding two giraffes
Loud Bicycle Game Get run over, turn cars into bicycles, have fun. Here you get to test out using the Loud Bicycle horn before you buy. Jan, 2024
person biking while another crashed into a taxi
Rosterchamp Autodraft optimization algorithm for automatically building a game plan based on coach preferences and athlete abilities. March, 2024
kids with baseball bats
Door: Virtual Neighborhood A new way to hit up your friends, iPhone and Android app. April, 2023
woman knocking on door with man behind
Google Maps Local Guide 8 Million photo views on Google Maps, Local Guide Level 8. Jan, 2023
digital art of a camera
Flight of the Timid Gull And other poetry in English and Spanish. March, 2023
A seagull flying against blue sky
SMS By Computer Service that automatically writes sweet, saucy, or psycho text message. GTP-3 Oct, 2022
chat icon with red background
Heiroglyphics Dictionary A modern dictionary for unicode hieroglyphics. July, 2022
Heiroglyphics and a few definitions
Uncanny Valley Vineyards Wine review generating website with red white and crazy wines. GTP-2 June, 2020
wine jug icon on blue background
The Eagle at Tranquility base on Airbnb Tiny space capsule house hosted on AirBnb on the actual moon, complete with extensive rules and two five star reviews Jul, 2019
airbnb on the moon
Realistic snowflake design Open source design for paper snowflakes that looks like an actual anatomically correct snowflake. Dec, 2018
realistic paper snowflake
Listenting to the lights Soldering headphones to a solar panel allows for listening to electric lights. June, 2020
solar panel attached to headphones
Feline Magazine for cats by cats Actual magazine from an audience of cats, "written" by cats, a team effort. Dec, 2019
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Floppy Credit card Credit card design shaped like a floppy disk. October, 2018
Floppy disk credit card
Keep Calm and Set SCE to AUX T-Shirt design released (cc) including raster vectorization of Lunar Module schematic. June, 2020
Lunar Module Schematic Vector
Visual representation of market data Dynamic visual representation of live worldwide market data with TAD Associates July, 2019
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Wikipedia University, Est. 1973 T-Shirt T-Shirt design released (cc) for "Wikipedia University" joke. March, 2019
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Corona Vaporizer When the Corona Virus comes knocking at your door you want to be prepared to VAPORIZE it. March, 2020
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Name a star, blockchain registry Astro Ledger blockchain technology for star naming. Built on Ethereum, a team effort. July, 2018
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Flybaby no-fly-list search engine Prudent parents use flybaby to check if their desired baby name is on the No Fly List. Nov, 2017
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Schengen temporary visa stay time tracker Track how much time you have left to stay in the Schengen zone - and the date you must leave by. May, 2018
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DIY Ballistocardiogram bed Viewing heart beats using a TSA roller table, plywood, a dental mirror and a laser. Sep, 2014
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Birefringence in plastic containers Photographing plastic through polarizers, in front of a LCD screen 2014-2017
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Gaze shifting snow heads Experiments with snow art creating creepy 3D gaze shifting snow heads everywhere. Expect many GIFs. Feb, 2015
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DIY Schlieren flow visualization Experiments building a Schlieren flow visualization set from $9 page magnifiers. Jun, 2014
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Faster to get there by bike? Demonstration that it is faster to get places in Boston by bicycle. Involved scraping ~1.4 Million Google Maps queries. March, 2013
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The Cause Community I started a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting ethical treatment of UUIDs. July, 2014
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Spirals and the Droste Effect Some examples of spiraly art made with MATLAB. Aug, 2013
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Fun credit card designs I like to have fun with my credit cards and colored markers. 2012 - 2014
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Smartphone Microscope Conversion Experiments with turning my smartphone into a microscope. Feb, 2014
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Loud Bicycle horn Thanks to 600 backers on Kickstarter, I'll be manufacturing bicycle horns that sound like car horns. Dec, 2012
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3D time-lapse Northern lights 3-D time lapse video from the ISS. Used edge detection to increase the contrast and improve the 3D effect. July, 2012
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Concatenatez A fun website - just for the fun of it. Also good practice for php, jscript & css. April, 2013
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Awesome Foundation data crunch Curve fitting and a topic model I've made with/for the 21K+ grant applications we have in our database as well as information about which projects we have funded. August, 2012
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Cute sound illusion video What does frying food sound like? I drove all around the state to find out and put it together in this video. April, 2014
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Interactive museum exhibit of Boston waterworks Demonstrates both the history and the physics of how Boston gets clean water, built for the visitors of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. December 08, 2011
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A grocery bag made from plastic bags Both recycled a lot of plastic shopping bags and simultaneously removed the need to get any more of them. Feb, 2011
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MATLAB-Central Contributions A description of some Matlab functions I share with the matlab community. 2010-2013
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Art with machine learning Some art created using the K-Means unsupervised learning algorithm, inspired by Andrew Ng. Jan, 2012
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Art with power spectrum estimation While tweaking a power spectra algorithm for work I found a way to generate some art. 2009
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Results of blind wine tasting This is why you should probably skip expensive wine. Jan, 2012
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How long it takes to get to work I recorded how long it took me to drive to work for 3 months. See the graph and frank discussion. April, 2011
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Single pendulum harmonograph Inspired by a bench swing I designed and built an pendulum apparatus to draw art. I derived the equations to explain the motion and compared results. 2003
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Party hosted on the Boston Subway Hosted the "Boston (T) Party" on the MBTA green line in an effort to warm the T atmosphere and facilitate connections between strangers who ride the T together each day. 2009
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TV becomes a solar cooker Frying eggs with the sun and the Fresnel lens of an old TV. June, 2012
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Social snow-path-making How far out of their way will people walk in order to stay on the path? Real-world experiments. Winter, 2010
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View camera tricks A demonstration of the neat Focusing abilities of a modern view camera with a tilt-shift lens 2008
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Arches igloos and snow caves Below are a few examples of my efforts to make arches and domes out of ice, snow, toilet paper and chairs. 2000-2011
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Lamp dimmer from a coke bottle Two hangers, duct tape and a coke bottle became a variable dimmer for my Styrofoam dishware lamp. 2003
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Catenary demonstration experiment A hands-on demonstration I conceived to demonstrate some amazing properties of hyperbolic cosine. First performed for the NJIT mathclub. 2006
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Mechanical 3-way light switch Built several 3-way light switches over the years to workaround poor architecting. 2004-2012
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No hot ashes gallery To combat the cross-cultural urge to throw Hot Ashes in with the garbage, trash cans worldwide are prominently labeled "No Hot Ashes" in the native language. 2007-Present
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Magic Eye stereographs Some Magic Eye stereographs I made with MS-Paint and Matlab. 2004
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Paternoster video Short video of new students testing out a rare and exciting Paternoster lift, ~300k views. 2006
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Physical model for river erosion Built a physical model river erosion with my brothers to demonstrate how snaking formations develop. It worked! 2005
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Handmade hammock I got this crazy idea one summer that I could make a string hammock from scratch; then I built a frame and made the hammock. 2004
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Magnet levitation above superconductor Organized a superconductor magnet levitation demonstration for the the NJIT Mathclub. 2006
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The minute hand fell off; so I fixed it This clock is a physical representation of a Demetri Martin joke. 2009
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Foucault's pendulum bowling ball My friend Ike and I built a working Foucault's pendulum in a stairwell at NJIT. It was an official NJIT mathclub event 2005
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Fun with Fractals Some art generated by my Matlab to draw fractals. 2006
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Bus reflection sketch A pencil drawing of a bus reflected in a store window. 2002
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Model bike out of wire A bike out of wire, made with pliers. Turning the pedals turned the wheel. 1998
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Mechanical drawing of the leaning tower of Pisa I learned the geometry of point projection to draw the Leaning Tower of Pisa. 2002
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Graphing in point perspective A quick experiment using equations to plot functions in point projection, made while learning mechanical drawing. 2003
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Tracking satellites across a map Plotting the path of satellite and the line between day and night. 2005
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Frozen coke bottle experiment A coke bottle filled with water then frozen produced some interesting results. 2003
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