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Projects

Selected work spanning robots, hardware, firmware, and other things I think warrant a second look.

  • SF Fit Finder cover

    SF Fit Finder

    May 2026
    active

    An interactive map of San Francisco that overlays noise, weather, transit, parks, trees, and crime, then ranks neighborhoods against whatever you want more or less of.

    • Web
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • MapLibre
    • For Fun
  • Atom Humanoid cover

    Atom Humanoid

    April 2026
    active

    A 16-DoF, 5'6" bipedal robot designed from scratch for general home tasks, with a custom CAD-to-simulation pipeline and PPO locomotion policies trained in NVIDIA Isaac Lab across 58+ runs.

    • Robotics
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Humanoid
    • Locomotion
    • Isaac Lab
    • URDF
    • PPO
    • Python
    • MuJoCo
  • Personal Media Repository cover

    Personal Media Repository

    April 2026
    active

    A poster-grid web app that catalogs my personal media library and shows what's on the wishlist, accessible from any device on my home network.

    • Web
    • React
    • Express
    • Self-Hosted
    • For Fun
  • Opaque Mirror cover

    Opaque Mirror

    April 2026
    completed

    A parody "inverse Glassdoor" site I built as a practical joke on a friend who skipped Hunky Jesus on Easter at Dolores Park.

    • Web
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • For Fun
  • Integrated Cycloidal Robotic Actuator cover

    Integrated Cycloidal Robotic Actuator

    January 2026
    completed

    A 19:1 cycloidal-reduction robot joint built around an Eaglepower 8308 BLDC motor — designed, 3D-printed, assembled, and characterized.

    • Mechatronics
    • CAD
    • BLDC
    • Cycloidal Drive
    • FOC
    • Onshape
    • 3D Printing
    • Python
  • WasteWizer Technologies cover

    WasteWizer Technologies

    January 2021
    completed

    IoT smart scale system for remotely monitoring fill levels of large waste containers. Co-founded the startup in 2019.

    • IoT
    • C++
    • Embedded
    • Firmware
    • Sensors
    • Signal Processing
    • Particle
    • Startup
  • Island Light cover

    Island Light

    January 2019
    completed

    Custom wooden pendant light fixture built as a Christmas gift and installed over a kitchen island, combining woodworking and home electrical wiring.

    • Woodworking
    • Electrical
    • Soldering
    • Fabrication
  • Off the Grid cover

    Off the Grid

    January 2019
    completed

    Kinetic sculpture with 64 stepper motor-actuated balls that create wavelike motion and interactive patterns, built for the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.

    • C++
    • Embedded
    • Stepper Motors
    • Motor Control
    • PCB Design
    • KiCad
    • SPI
    • 3D Printing
    • Mbed
  • Shoulder Cannon cover

    Shoulder Cannon

    January 2019
    completed

    3-DOF robotic turret that tracks and mirrors a user's head orientation in real time using an IMU headset and inverse kinematics.

    • C++
    • Embedded
    • Inverse Kinematics
    • IMU
    • Signal Processing
    • Kalman Filtering
    • Motor Control
    • Servos
    • MSP432
  • BallBot cover

    BallBot

    January 2018
    completed

    Inverted pendulum robot that balances dynamically on a single ball using an IMU and closed-loop torque control on Dynamixel servos.

    • C++
    • Embedded
    • Control Systems
    • IMU
    • Signal Processing
    • Dynamixel
    • MSP432
    • 3D Printing
  • GROMIT cover

    GROMIT

    January 2018
    completed

    Research robot that mimics animal sniffing patterns to study machine olfaction, leading to a publication in Nature Communications.

    • Arduino
    • C++
    • Sensors
    • Stepper Motors
    • Signal Processing
    • 3D Printing
    • Research
  • ME 2110 cover

    ME 2110

    January 2016
    completed

    Georgia Tech's mechanical engineering design course, culminating in a semester-long electromechanical competition robot built from scratch.

    • Mechanical Design
    • CAD
    • Autodesk Inventor
    • Fabrication
    • Pneumatics
    • Electromechanical
  • Window to Shanghai cover

    Window to Shanghai

    January 2016
    completed

    LED art piece featuring a Shanghai skyline silhouette set within a hand-built traditional Chinese window frame, made as a personal gift.

    • Woodworking
    • Fabrication
    • LED
    • Electronics
    • Soldering
  • Hackathing Gripper cover

    Hackathing Gripper

    January 2015
    completed

    Adaptive robotic gripper built for Georgia Tech's Hackathing competition, using ultrasonic sensing to detect and pick up a variety of objects.

    • Arduino
    • C++
    • Stepper Motors
    • Ultrasonic Sensors
    • 3D Printing
    • Fabrication
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