Harry Zhang

Created (and won) during Hack The North 2019, the idea of Unbounded came from how limited our interactions in the Virtual Reality space was because of tethering or room size limitations. Using non-euclidean concepts the game was created to feature an infinite number of rooms all stacked within the same physical space. More technically, the use of portals (and a lot of shader work) allowed the players to basically peek into different worlds while seamlessly being transported into them as they move around the same physical space.

WorldSkills is an international event hosted every two years that brings together the world's brightest minds in vocational trades and technology in a 4-day competition. More info coming soon...

In Continuum, the goal of the game is to navigate the player around the central tower. By only being able to see one 2D cross-section of the 3D world at a time, the player is able to "rotate" themselves in the third dimensional to see different the world at different angles. Using Unity3D's custom shader engine, we were able to render a 3D scene onto an orthographic camera using the near clipping plane of the camera and back-face culling.

Located in Alberta's capital city of Edmonton, the 24th annual Skills Canada National Competition was an event worth remembering. Competing again in Web Design and Development I had the rare opportunity to represent Ontario for a second straight year against the best in the country. But it doesn't end there, finishing with a Gold Medal at the national level meant that I was considered as a Team Canada Prospect for the upcoming WorldSkills 2019 Competition.

Fraternize is a 3D multiplayer puzzle game based on the idea behind cursors.io. Created for my ICS4U summative, the goal of the game is to help online strangers get through each of level while finding the balance between sacrificing yourself and letting others move onwards.

Circular is an OpenCV based circuit analyzer created during MHacks X at the University of Michigan. Using a webcam, Circular allows users to draw electronic circuits and have them (almost) instantly digitized and become manipulable.

P3 Pointer, which stands for 'Personal, Plug and Play, Pointer', is a wearable device that turns your hand into a pointing device for any computer. Made for Hack the North 2017, our group used a 9DOF to calculate the position of the user's hand (relative to a set calibration point) and then send it to the host computer as mouse movement through an ATmega32U4.

Competing in the Web Design and Development contest, I was honored to represent Team Ontario in Canada's only national-level multi-trade and technology competition. There were two qualifying rounds in order to get there, one at the regional board level, and a second at the provincial level. In general, the competition scopes were quite similar, given a specific client, design and create the required website. No internet access was allowed and everything needed to make the site were provided. This was my first year doing skills, and it was a truly life-changing experience to meet so many talented students from all across the country.

Inspired by the state-of-art fiber optics technology, LaFi is engineered to transmit data between two computers through the use of lasers. A set of two Raspberry Pi's is used to transfer any binary-based information by blinking on and off, representing a stream of bits. This project was submitted to and won first place at Massey Hacks III (2017).

Developed for (and won) during Hack The North 2016, IdeaShare is a platform for users to share and distribute ideas. It featured a Natural Language Processing engine to interpret submissions and add them to a tag cloud, where other users can search and use them.

Made for the Vex Robotics Website Challenge, dmcirobotics.tk is our school team's website. It gives parents and students a chance to see what we do and who we are, without leaving the conform of their computers.

Made during the Space Apps 2016 Hackathon in Toronto, Aircheck-NG is an air quality and public health tracking tool. The application neatly displays a collection of crowd-sourced health data and severity information and compares it against live environmental factors.

StudyHub is an online platform that aims to help students study efficiently. By combining homework, discussions and an online textbook all in one place, students are able to focus more on the task at hand and not get distracting by other social media platforms.