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title: "Portfolio"
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author: "Aron Petau"
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philosophy:
  - image_path: assets/images/grass_blur.jpg
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    title: "Philosophy"
    excerpt: "Find out about considerations relating to ethics, emotions, philosophy of science and feminist theory"
    url: "/philosophy/"
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printing:
  - image_path: assets/images/lithophane.jpg
    alt: "printing"
    title: "3D Printing"
    excerpt: "See an array of printing projects I did here. I also explain how the industry could have a transformative effect on society, both good and bad"
    url: "/printing/"
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cad:
  - image_path: assets/images/render_bike_holder.png
    title: "Computer aided Design"
    excerpt: "Follow along here for my exploration of sketching and parametric design in Fusion360 and related projects. I demonstrate some things that alrerady made it into the real world and some that still di not."
    url: "/cad/"
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beacon:
  - image_path: assets/images/india_key_monastery.jpg
    alt: "beacon"
    title: "Beacon"
    excerpt: "Here you can see parts of a research project I conducted 2018 in India. It looks at regional problems of inaccessibility to electricity and sketches a solution in the form of a radical rethinking of how electricity works and how it is distributed."
    url: "/beacon/"
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plastic-recycling:
  - image_path: /assets/images/recycling_graphic.jpg
    alt: "plastic-recycling"
    title: "Plastic Recycling"
    excerpt: "I examine the reasons failed 3D prints never get recycled and propose a decentralized solution for a system not involving sending our trash around the world."
    url: "/plastic-recycling/"
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ballpark:
  - image_path: assets/images/ballpark_menu.png
    alt: "ballpark"
    title: "Ballpark: Exploring collaborative gameplay in 3D Environments"
    excerpt: "Have a look at a novel game Idea I sketched out while learning the basics of Unity and C#. It features two players attached to the same body, forcing them to collaborate and traverse the hostile surroundings"
    url: "/ballpark/"
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coding:
  - image_path: assets/images/sample_cos_sim.png
    title: "Computervision and Neural Networks"
    excerpt: "Some examples of explorations into machine learning and AI using Python I did during the Bachelor's in Osnabrück. "
    url: "/coding/"
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homebrew:
  - image_path: assets/images/beer_tap.jpg
    alt: "homebrew"
    title: "Beer at Home"
    excerpt: "I am discovering the world of Homebrewing. Come see how I brew beer and ferment."
    url: "/homebrew/"
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chatbot:
  - image_path: https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/es/docs/images/fulfillment-flow.svg
    alt: "chatbot"
    title: "Guru to Go: a Chatbot"
    excerpt: "A speech interface for your hands-free meditation and journalling needs. I also sketch how my studies translate into my current work."
    url: "/chatbot/"
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thesis:
  - image_path: assets/images/acc_sj_by_cond_distort.png
    alt: "thesis"
    title: "Bachelors thesis: audio-visual speech processing and the effects of multisensory integration"
    excerpt: "Find out more about a study I coded, conducted and evaluated looking at auditory and visual delay and how it affects human speech perception. It can potentially help people with sensory hypersensitivity navigate a calmer world and concentrate on the things that matter."
    url: "/thesis/"
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iron-smelting:
  - image_path: assets/images/burning_furnace.jpg
    alt: "iron-smelting"
    title: "Smelting: Making iron the prehistoric way"
    excerpt: "See some impressions from the ISD 2021 where iron-ore is burned under exclusion of oxygen to reduce it and produce real iron. A group of archeology-fanatics is experimentally trying to find out about the mysterious prehistoric efficiency of smelting iron, highly localized knowledge that is largely lost."
    url: "/iron-smelting/"
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allei:
  - image_path: assets/images/allei_screenshot.png
    alt: "allei"
    title: "Ällei: Exploration of inclusivity and accessibility online"
    excerpt: "My first shipped software project: Read about a Google Dialogflow backend and try it out yourself"
    url: "/allei/"
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