I guess it all really started in high school when I joined the Renaissance Class Dance team to perform at the end-of-the-year spirit rally. I've never done anything dance-related until sophomore year when I joined this temporary team. I became the only person in my class to have joined for 3 consecutive years (we didn't have a class team our freshman year), and because of it, I really wanted to keep it going in college

In my freshman year at Pitzer College, I joined the KASA Freshman Dance Crew. These dance crews perform at the annual dance-off competition in LA at the end of November held by the Korean American Students Association. Our performance had a graduation theme - hence the purple graduation caps. Below is our performance: 

After this one semester commitment, I became hungry for more hip hop dance experiences. And so, I became a founding member of Shingiru Crew. 

Here's a short video of our auditions clip:

The following year, we finally became a recognized club on campus. We renamed ourselves to Groove Nation Dance Crew and recruited a fun family of dancers.

During my last year in Groove Nation, we were huge on campus. We became overbooked with performances throughout the semester, and we had a lot of momentum going.

My journey restarted when I moved over to Columbia University. That's when I joined CU Generation - a K-pop hip-hop fusion dance crew. 

CU Generation at RAWCUS 360

CU Generation at CSC Night Market

CU Generation at AAA CultureSHOCK

CU Generation at Glass House Rocks

I met the best suite mates in college - Kevin and Briton (and partner-in-crime, Abbie). Now, I'm off to the next stage of my life, so I decided to build this friendship photoset for Kevin and Briton to remember our golden era. We called ourselves: "The Suite Bros".

This project is actually an extension of the "Voice Activated Arduino (Bluetooth + Android) by ASCAS. I highly advise you guys to read his project first! ASCAS really simplified the fundamentals of the project down super well.

It's been a little more than a year since the last time (and the first time) I took Electronics at Pomona College and learned to use the Arduino. I thought ASCAS's project was fun and easy-to-learn. He has great project. Check him out when you can!

HOW PROJECT SUITE BROS WORKS

It's a DIY photoset that has LEDs inserted in the frame and in the back of photos that are activated by your voice commands via an Android's speech recognition app. The app is called "Android Meets Robots: Voice" by SimpleLabsIN. This app converts your voice commands to data strings and sends them to your Arduino via Bluetooth. You can build the photoset in any way you want. I just want to show you how I built mine in this Instructable.

PROJECT SUITE BROS VIDEO DEMO:

Click Here for the Instructables Post