Hey, I'm Ego. I am in 11th grade. I like playing state-level basketball, listening to Kanye West, and building hardware stuff in my garage.
My biggest goal right now is to get into MIT to study Aerospace Engineering.
When I am not playing basketball, I am usually coding or reading about physics. I really like astrophysics and fluid dynamics. I try not to use game engines like Unity because I prefer to write the raw C++ code myself so I actually learn the math behind it.
MBDTF is the best album ever. I just leave this on loop while I write code.
I built a working pulsejet engine in my garage. It uses acoustic resonance to keep the combustion going without any moving parts. It is ridiculously loud (over 100 decibels) and was a really fun way to learn about fluid dynamics.
A physics engine I wrote completely from scratch in C++. I used Runge-Kutta integration to solve the math for gravitational lensing around a black hole instead of using a pre-made engine.
I connected a camera to my telescope and wrote a Python script using OpenCV. It tracks the night sky and filters out airplanes so I can log real meteor entries in the atmosphere.
I am always trying to figure out how things work. Here is what I am focusing on right now: