List: Laser Cutting Projects
A list of projects that myself, or family have Ade using our glowforge laser cutter. Lots of trial and error.
MBA Prerequisites
Prepping for my MBA at UNCC I had to take multiple prerequisites in order to be accepted, this was due to my undergraduate degree being primarily technical focused. These were the courses I took and how many hours I needed to commit to complete them.
Economics
– Macro
– Micro
Statistics
Math for Management – 14 hours = Algebra, Calculus, Statistics, Probability, Finance
- 6/6 – 1.5 hour review + 1 hour notes
- 6/7 – 1 hour
- 6/8 – 1 hour
- 6/13 – 1.5 hours – finished Algebra review
- 6/20 – 1 hour – started on calculus
- 6/21 – 1 hour – calculus/statistics
- 6/22 – 1 hour
- 6/25 – 1 hour
- 6/27 – 3 hours
- 6/29 – 1 hour revision
- 6/29 – 7 hour test
Quantitative methods – 20 hours
- 7/5 – 2 hours
- 7/16 – 2 hours
- 7/17 – 3 hours
- 7/19 – 2 hours
- 7/20 – 1 hour
- 7/23 – 2 hours
- 7/24 – 3 hours
- 7/25 – 6 hours test
Finance and Managerial Accounting – 14 hours
- 7/31 – 1 hour
- 8/6 – 1.5 hours
- …
- 8/14 – 3 hours
Financial Accounting – 20 hours
- 9/12 – 2.5 hours
- 9/14 – 2 hours
- 9/15 – 3 hours + 1st test
- 9/16 – 1 hour
- 9/17 – 2 hours
- 9/19 – 1.5 hours
- 9/24 – 2 hours
- 9/25 – 1 hour
- 9/26 – 2 hours for the test
Microeconomics – 83 hours
- 1/30 – 2 hours
- 1/31 – 1 hour
Macroeconomics – 134 hours
Financial Accounting and Finance (Managerial Accounting)
Financial Accounting (ONLY): http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/79693070 To receive credit, you must pass Exam 1 OR 2 AND Exam 3.
Travel: Kure Beach, NC









Golf: Pelz Short Game and Putting Tests
Dave Pelz is one of the best golf instructors in the world, and he invented a short game and putting game to test, and score, your short game skills to gauge progress and improvement. I was given this during one of his short game clinics in Atlanta and have been using it to quantify my improvements.
If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it



Here are some of my scores from the Short Game Test:
| Date | 3/4 Wedge | 1/2 Wedge | Long Sand | Short Sand | Long Chip – FW | Short Chip – FW | Pitch – FW | Pitch – Rough | Cut Lob – Rough | Total Points | HCP |
| 10 balls (yards) | 30 – 70 | 20 – 40 | 16 – 35 | 7 – 15 | 15 – 30 | 7 – 14 | 10 – 20 | 10 – 20 | 10 – 20 | ||
| 6/21/2018 – Hole 6 | 2 (50) | 4 (30) | 2 (20) | 7 (15) | 4* | 7 (20) | 13 (15) | 9 (15) | 0 (20) | 48 | 20 |
| 7/3/2018 – Hole 1 | 0 (60) | 7 (30) | 6 (20) | 10 (15) | 7 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 71 | 13 |
| 7/18/2018 – Hole 2 | 2 (50) | 3 (30) | 1 (24) | 5 (15) | 10 (20) | 18 (7) | 8 (1) | 15 | 5 | 67 | 14 |
| 7/23/2018 – Hole 18 | 1 (50) | 5 (30) | 0 (25) | 9 (15) | 11 | 21 (15) | 12 (15) | 13 (22) | 13 (20) | 85 | 9 |
| 7/26/2018 – Hole 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 85 | 9 |
| 7/31/2018 – Hole 6 | 2 (70) | 1 (50) | 1 (40) | 7 (15) | 4 (30) | 28 (12) | 13 (18) | 19 (18) | 7 (10) | 82 | 10 |
| 8/28/2018 – Mixed 14/15 | 1 (70) | 8 | 2 | 14 | 1 (30) | 20 (8) | 16 (20) | 18 (20) | 11 (20) | 91 | 7 |
| 9/4/2018 – Hole 2 | 0 (90) | 3 (70) | 3 (35) | 9 (10) | 5 (30) | 9 (10) | 14 | 11 | 11 | 65 | 14 |






Gaming Industry

Tool: Glowforge Laser Cutter
Glowforge was one of the most successful crowdfunding projects at the time, with raising $27.9m in 30 days!



This was my first crowdfunded purchase, and a pretty substantial one at that at around $2,500 … between this and the Prusa 3D printer, they have probably provided the most interesting and beneficial learning opportunities. While slightly simpler to use compared to a 3D printer, since all functions are only in 2D, there are multiple small nuances around the design, materials, multi-step operations, cutting depths, speeds and laser focus which have had a steep learning curve.
So far we have made a bunch of interesting, practical and useful projects, sold a few on Etsy and also made a few personalized meaningful gifts.
DIY: Golf Yardage Books



I have collected well over 30 yardage books from all over the world. Most of them from bucket list courses like Pinehurst #2, Harbor Town or one of my favorite courses, The Ocean Course at Kiawah. But sometimes courses didnt offer or sell them, so I started down the rabbit hole of designing and printing my own.
Majority of them were for tournaments I played in on the Golfweek Amateur Tour. The design process included using Google Maps to get an aerial photo of the course, and then subsequently outlining each hole using Adobe Illustrator and vector shapes. Then measuring and taking the yardages from the course and annotating the map.







Book size: 3.75″ x 6.5”
Bookmark: The Stitchfix Algorithm Website is Awesome!
Machine Learning Algorithms Cheat Sheet


















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