About Essence of Zen!

Essence of Zen is an open organization driven to give any user/viewer/supporter/stranger tools to better themselves. This derives from our name itself - The nature of finding "enlightenment" (*cough* Ingress *cough*) in a sense with the journey to gaining knowledge, and giving that knowledge to others without hassle.
We hope to one day shatter the norm that many drop on their users. Remember to resist conforming with commonality. (*achoo* Ingress *achoo*)

 

Who are Essence of Zen?


Essence of Zen was created by College students who were looking for a way to both increase their skills as well as help others in the process. Before the evolution of the group there were many ideas for open source programs that may benefit others like us -- but we're always increasing our skills to complete these projects.



Remember: We're not professionals yet! So there are likely to be errors or ways to do something better! But that's where building an awesome community comes into play!



The group itself was created from previous iterations of previous groups such as "CZZC". Because of that, there are many who we thank for aiding us in forming EoZ.

 
 

Our Goals

Our goals range from simply expressing our hobbies and allowing others to enjoy their own, to one day becoming a organization that helps the world with open source technology, green technology, and an open and free internet for all.
Our current goals in focus today are as followed:

  • Graduate College!

  • Stabilize the website.

  • Increase video production quality.

  • Finish some of our unlisted programming projects.

  • Take over the world.

 

What We Do

 


Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7

Tinker with Hardware!

Overall, we tinker with anything technology related as our hobby. This includes testing motherboards, graphics cards, building small little devices on protoboards, programming something stupid, playing games, modding games, making mods, and much much more.

The tools at our disposal varies greatly so some projects may seem a bit... weird. We sometimes "Jerry rig" many of our builds/contraptions due to us being college students! In the end, if you want to build something without the funds - you have to get creative!

Program Various Useful and Uselss Applications! We started with programming in various languges, but we've begun targeting various languages ranging from:

  • Python

  • C#

  • C++

  • Java

  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript




Experimental System Analysis Python Program.
We have hopes to break into programming for various platforms and even establishing our own environment for future projects.