S5 Solutions
Mukilteo, Washington
(2015 - 2018)
Programming as Software Engineer at S5
Solutions
"Maker Faire" Booth Crew -
9/17/16 at EMP Museum
(Now MOHOP - Museum of Popular Culture)
Here is a video of our booth in action showing off
our working Cylon model,
our successful "Lipless!" game,
and Audio Guide cellphone app developed for the Museum:
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Screen Captures from our "LIPLESS!" cellphone Application: |
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Screen
Captures from our Museum Audio Guide |
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S5
Solutions games we invented, built, and marketed:
"Election: The Game"
Below is a
high speed video showing friends
playing "Election: The Game":
Below is a
promotional video by Charlotte
Bedward for "Election: The Game":
Here Charlotte shows how to setup the game:
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"LIPLESS!" - Hilarious
Mouth Game
Photos from
Amazon listing. (No longer available on Amazon)
Below is a video
of friends playing "LIPLESS!":
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My Experience Programming at S5 Solutions |
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I joined the small Electrical Engineering and
Software Engineering firm S5 Solutions in Mukilteo, Washington in 2015. The company specializes in using the graphical programming tool "LabView" from National Instruments. Since all my previous experience was in using textual programming language tools, I faced a challange in learning this new programming environment. After completing a few practice assignments, I used my new LabView skills to create a demonstration program for the Audio Guide cellphone system we were making for Seattle's EMP (Experience Music Project) museum. Next, I helped build that Audio Guide using the JavaScript programming language. We used our JavaScript skills to build some web-based applications for some of our other clients. ( Click here to see the current S5 Solutions website... )  Craig Bedward - S5 Solutions President Our President, Craig Bedward, enjoyed playing board games, and he invented two games that we successfully built and marketed. The first was "Election: The Game", a fun game with witty critiques of typical political ploys. About a year later, he decided to create the "LIPLESS!" game since he liked the popular video of people trying to speak with dental mouth guards in their mouths. He wanted to buy the game to play it too, but he was surprised that it was not being sold. He knew how to build and market games from our "Election: The Game" experience, so he created the game himself and marketed it very successfully, selling it primarily on Amazon. We frequently spent our evenings and weekends assembling and shipping out tens of thousands of the games to purchasers. With the huge success of "LIPLESS!", we decided to make a cellphone application of the game too. We used JavaScript to build the app, and you can see some screen captures of it in action above. It works correctly and was available for free for Android and iPhone cellphones, but it no longer is listed for iPhones. Since it was free, it was not financially successful. |
