Archive - Theodore Kovalev

Building a Website for Green Club

Decide how to decide

Jun 6 • Theodore Kovalev

May 2026

My Engineering Club Lecture: How to Identify a Leak

The hidden mathematics of listening to broken pipes — and why it's the same maths behind MRI scans, Wi-Fi, and MP3s.

May 6 • Theodore Kovalev

April 2026

We Built a Water Tester. Cambridge Just Called it ‘Highly Commended’

My classmates and I built a portable water tester that indicates if drinking water is safe within minutes and without the use of a laboratory or…

Apr 19 • Theodore Kovalev

How Our Water Sensor Came Close to Faking Results Thanks to an Enzyme From a Firefly

A team of five of us, myself included, built a water-quality-testing prototype we called the Firefly Hydrolyte.

Apr 10 • Theodore Kovalev

March 2026

Post equation I know is wrong

I shipped a “wrong” equation once — and I would do it again in a heartbeat

Mar 11 • Theodore Kovalev

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