Erik Chan Chi-Hein
陳志衍

Kitchen table

This is my first walnut dining table measuring 40"x84"x1". I'm very happy with the yellow powder coated table legs from diyfurniturestore.com

PFP in Acrylic

Without question this is the most ambitious painting of mine. They come in a pair, each 40"x30" in acrylic.

The original sketch was created in 2010, and I dug it out of the crates in 2021. The goal was to challenge myself to create something that was worthy in concept and execute it in paint.

I ran into a lot of different challenges: the stencils, the glow in the dark LV monogram, alignment, creating two identical paintings, etc..

L00t

I've always wanted to build a chat-based game. L00t is a pirate game on Discord to explore servers & collect l00t. I'd love to explore this genre some more..

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Bahabox

Bahabox was an idea to allow Airbnb hosts to offer gifts and items to their guests. Each box is connected to an online store where guests can pay for items and rent extra amenities on demand.

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Console Table

Measuring 57"x15"x2.5", this live edge walnut top caught my eye while I was shopping for a slab for my standing desk. It ended up being an add-on project introducing a bunch of challenges I didn't forsee originally.

This table wouldn't have been possible without the patient assistance of Cindy Zhu.

DIY Iron Lamps

I won't lie, I'm proud of this set of two iron pipe lamps. They both have dimmers attached and are connected to my Google Home.

OrderParrot

OrderParrot is an automated restaurant chatbot to help restaurants take orders, receive payment, and answer popular customer questions. The chatbot comes with an admin backend for restaurant owners to manage their menu and retain customers through engagement programs.

Explainer Video

Motorized Desk

Measuring 59"x30"2.5", this live edge walnut standing desk is supported by motorized legs to allow both standing and sitting positions. I'm working on it as we speak...

This table wouldn't have been possible without the patient assistance of Cindy Zhu.

Wood Stools

These two solid birch blocks sit on my front patio and act as a pair of entryway stools.

Peggy2 Equalizer

Audio Equalizer represented by 512 white 10mm LEDS.

The project was created using Processing, Macbook Pro, Peggy2, Arduino, and Snoop Dogg.

Blog Post 5/2011

Blog Post 2/2011

Ponty Wine Brochures

Brochure design for Ponty Wines. My first attempt on luxury in English and Chinese.

Download Brochure

Moon Safari Rasterization

Rasterization of my favorite album 'Moon Safari' by Air using a laser cutter and red oak.

Album on iTunes

Chanponty's May 19th

72 x 720ml bottles of Triple Trappist beer brewed with love by Helene Ponty and I.

E3 Collages

A set of two 60"x30" collages called 'E3 2005' and 'E3 2007'. The clippings mainly come magazines and publications I read at the time: business, games, technology, and music.

Cook Me Crepes

This was my first iPhone app where I designed and programmed the entire thing. Helene Ponty provided recipes and we taped all the video in one go.

App on iTunes Store

Harmotion

PC online multiplayer shooter game in collaboration with Jeff Knecht. I designed and produced art, sound, and game design while Jeff performed all the technical programming aspects of development.

Final version HD video

Mixtape HD video

Initial version HD video

EmpTwit

EmpTwit gauges market sentiment via Twitter streams. With the aid of the MIT common sense knowledge base, Open Mind, and affect extension of Wordnet, EmpTwit sets out to abstract variation in public mood and investor sentiment via Twitter updates. By using natural language parsing techniques to extract significant concepts in tweets, EmpTwit sets out to capture more accurate sentiment beyond simple keyword matching techniques employed in the field.

The goal of EmpTwit is to correlate the variation in public mood with stock market behavior. The idea is that EmpTwit will measure investor sentiment before the market fully adjusts to it. The motivation of this project stems from various psychological evidences of a strong link between weather and sports outcomes with investor sentiment and market behavior.

Press-fit Coat Hanger

A press-fit coat hanger created using a laser cutter and acrylics.

PCB Fabrication 'Hello World'

My first foray into micro electronics. This is a PCB fabrication of a board saying 'Hello World' on a Mac.

DIY CNC Machine

A do-it-yourself CNC machine base using plywood and a shopbot.

Guitar Bottle Opener

Guitar bottle openers using aluminum and a waterjet.

Assortment of PCBs

An assortment of self fabricated output PCB electronics: sound, array of LEDs, LCD, and RGB LED.

Instrumented Drumsticks

These are instrumented drumsticks by installing RGB LEDS and an accelerometer to make them light up with colors depending on direction of swing.

Family Prints

A set of five 15"x20" paintings for my family. The blue white scheme reflects the furniture color in our bedrooms and the number on each painting represents their birthday.

Gameday Tycoon

A social sports betting game application on Facebook. This was collaboration with Mahmoud Arram and Fayez Mohamood, they provided application programming while I did art and design.

Harmotion Brochure

A 7"x8.5" sized full color 80lb card stock brochure presenting Harmotion to publishers such as Microsoft and Nintendo. Enclosed in the brochure is also a DVD containing videos, documents and the game installer client.

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Harmotion Race Logos

These 5 logos where my first foray into graphic design, illustrator, and photoshop. Each logo represents the different race personalities in the game Harmotion.

Particle Effects Designer

Harmotion's particle effects designer user interface. The tool was actualized by Jody Mcadams.

X and Y

The set of two 60"x30" acrylic paintings are a collaboration with Lenard Sukendar. The two paintings were created as a set where we wanted to be able to standalone individually and also as a set. Titled 'X' and 'Y', the set of two combined are called 'X and Y'.

Harmotion Race Ships

Art direction for the Harmotion race personalities. Concept art was illstrutated by Julie Dillons and 3D models by Pablo Selener.

Coco Voice

Instant voice messaging iPhone app in collaboration with Leo Guo, Nick Peters, and Renjian. I mainly helped with initial design and marketing, which I imagine has changed significantly since.

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Shades of Bellevue

48"x36" Pollack style painting called 'Shades of Bellevue'. The acrylics painting was inspired by the balcony view of my Bellevue condo where I painted it one sunny summer weekend.

Instant Messaging MMORPG

Passively multiplayer online game storyboard concept based on instant messaging.

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iPad2worldwide

Weekend e-commerce website project in collaboration with Helene Ponty. As we can see, the iPad 2 is already an antique today and keeping my projects relevant tend to be far too time consuming.

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Jian Yi Jian

Online video speed dating website business plan for Chinese market.

Download Business Plan

Music Recordings

Rock and electronic music composition and production in 2006.

Music Painter

User interface for Music Painter Android app in collaboration with Wu-Hsi.

MIT Media Lab Project

Peggy2 Webcam

Video represented by 512 white 10mm LEDS.

The project was created using Processing, Macbook Pro, Peggy2, Arduino, and a webcam.

Blog Post 5/2011

Blog Post 2/2011

Harmotion.com

Main website of Harmotion displaying real-time stats and rankings from the online game. The site was in collaboration with Jonathan Lin.

Airik x Stan Smith

I've always wanted to do something with sneakers. This is my crossover with the Adidas Stan Smiths.

DJ iPhone

iPhone design for a DJ app. It never became realized during the initial years of iOS evolution where music stored on the device was not accessible.

Harmotion Polos

Embroideries of each of the Harmotion race logos I designed were stitched on black polos.

LePonty Wines

I developed this website for Helene Ponty's distribution company. Mainly a HTML/CSS/JS endeavor, a good chunk of the site design was stolen from other websites. The website will work on a PC, tablet, and a mobile browser.

Website

Blog Portfolio

A collection of blogs I've started over the years, most notably my personal blog since 2001.

Personal Blog

Angelbacker Blog

intwn

intwn is a side project where I wanted to sync the travel itineraries between friends and family. Its so you can find out who will be intwn this week whether you're at home or traveling. Also built with Ruby on Rails.

I am actively looking for collaborators for this project to kickstart an improved version.

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Chatramp

In collaboration with Kevin Chiu, Chatramp was a landing page conversion experiment where we used a bot in replacement of a static sign up form.

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ConsultFred

ConsultFred is a software as a service (Saas) recommendation engine. It was my first major full-stack implementation with Ruby on Rails, Google API, D3, Heroku, Graphy Theory, and many more. The service has been shut down due to costs of hosting.

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Small Projects

Random stuff here and there...