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LilPickle

My name is Aaron Pickard (aka LilPickle). I’m an aspiring game designer currently working as a programmer for O’Reilly Auto Parts–it’s a living. I hope to one day be responsible for the creation of the best games around, and I want to do it all! I want to be a writer, I want to be an artist, I want to be an artificial intelligence developer… I feel I have the talent to do all kinds of creative things. Until I get there, I’m just honing my skills I guess… expressing my piddly opinions here at amplizine. Whether you’re here to view my portfolio or only to learn a little bit about my awesomeness, thanks for stopping by.

My Writing

Genetic Algorithms

This is a process description paper I wrote for my Technical Writing course. The goal was to explain a complex idea to someone not in that field. I tried my best to describe genetic algorithms–and I thought I took too large of a bite–but my professor was impressed so much that she wanted to keep a copy of it for her future classes.

Technical Writing - Process Description

Technopoly

From my class, Communication, Technology and Society, this is one of the papers we wrote.

Comm., Tech, and Society - Technopoly

My Programming

Mancala

This is a project description I wrote for my Evolutionary Algorithms class. I used my own technique I call “feature checking” to give my A.I. heuristic knowledge of the problem and then trained and compared it to different levels of minimax A.I.s. I had some interesting results with this one.

Evolutionary Algorithms - Evolved Mancala A.I. vs Minimax A.I.

Evolutionary Algorithms - Genetic Algorithm Code

ARMS

ARMS is my senior design project: Amplizine Review Management System. The project was designed to be a lightweight but powerful content management system tailored for reviews for this website. Entirely database driven, it featured star ratings, comments, media uploading and management, user specified categories, and really useful navigation.

Reviews Management Screen

Upload Management Screen

Combination Lock

This is the presentation from my final project of an Electrical Engineering course. A partner and I built a 4-digit/11-key number pad lock with a reprogrammable code. This was a really fun project.

Digital Design - Combination Lock