Flash

This site was rushed together for an honors Organic Chemistry class during freshman year at UM. The information is kind of complicated but I had fun messing with the programming, especially the mouse-overs on the spectral data section and the pop-up boxes (the blue links) in the experimental section. The gradient effects, embossing of the buttons, and other cheap photoshop filter effects combined with the neon green and gray color scheme give the site a very...interesting look.

Whack-a-mole

This is a very simple flash game I made in high school. See if you can break 1000...

Science Fair project

The file is big (around 7MB), so give it a while to download, but of course it's worth it.
A lot more impressive is the project I submitted to the Detroit Science Fair 2002. It is a karyotyper made with Flash. This took a ton of work, and if you're not interested in the actual science of matching up the chromosomes, all of the buttons do something, so it's kind of fun to mess around with. If you are interested, the idea is this: the lab I volunteered in took pictures of cells and their chromosomes. These chromosomes were all jumbled up, and to get genetic information, a doctor looks at them when they are organized by type. We have 2 of each type chromosome, along with 2 sex chromosomes in normal individuals. So a lab tech usually spends a while developing film negatives, enlarging them, developing those, cutting out the chromosomes, and taping them to a sheet by type. I tried to create a program that would make it convenient to do this on a computer, possibly saving a ton of paper or making it possible to submit these to an online database, etc. The quality is good but the problem is I didn't have the programming knowledge to "cut up" the original jumble of chromosomes and import them into my program. However, I can use photoshop to separate each chromosome and import it to the Flash program. After that step, the program saves a lot of time. I also liked that a better level of control is maintained by the lab tech. There are a few programs that are in the $50,000 area, but they provide poor quality and are almost fully automated. That leads to a bunch of mistakes (because the software at this point is just not that advanced), and lost productivity in correcting those mistakes. With more human control, almost all of those mistakes are avoided. Anyhow, I think the judges just liked how the buttons moved things. One judge refused to believe that I did all the programming myself. This is the program that the article in the paper was written about (Link), and this is the program that got me my spending money for the first 2 years of college, and this is the program that made me miss senior year spring break. Everything's a tradeoff, but overall I'm proud I finished it.
If you want to know more or comment, you can email me: copperp@umich.edu