Engineering

Builds

Hardware, software, and everything in between. I build things to understand how they work — and to make things that didn't exist before.

Robotics

MenloShed.com

2026

Designed and built from scratch for the regional robotics competition. The robot uses an array of IR sensors and a custom PID controller to follow a track at speed, making real-time corrections 200 times per second. The chassis was 3D printed in PLA, and the control board was hand-soldered.

Placed 2nd in the regional competition out of 34 teams. The PID tuning process taught me more about control theory than any textbook.

Arduino MegaC++PID Control3D PrintingIR SensorsCustom PCB

Software

Flight Simulator

2025

A full-stack web app that uses a machine learning model to optimize study schedules. Students input their upcoming exams, estimated difficulty, and past performance — the app generates a personalized daily schedule that adapts as they log study sessions. Used by 40+ students at my school.

Built over 6 weeks. The ML model was trained on synthetic data and achieves ~78% accuracy predicting which subjects need more time. Currently used by classmates preparing for AP exams.

PythonReactTensorFlowFirebaseFastAPITailwind CSS

Hardware + Software

Face Tracker

2024

Designed and fabricated a device to digitize 35mm film negatives at home. The scanner uses a Raspberry Pi 4, a macro lens, a custom diffusion light panel, and OpenCV-based image processing to invert negatives and correct color. The enclosure was designed in Fusion 360 and laser-cut from acrylic.

Scans a 36-exposure roll in about 20 minutes. Image quality rivals commercial scanners costing $400+. Built this to support the documentary 'Analog' — I needed to digitize archival film without sending it out.

Raspberry Pi 4PythonOpenCVFusion 360Laser CuttingCustom Optics

IoT

Witness.ai

2024

A solar-powered weather station mounted on my roof that logs temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, and UV index every 5 minutes. Data is pushed to a custom dashboard I built in React. The station has been running continuously for 14 months.

14 months of uninterrupted data. I used the dataset for a statistics project comparing my readings to the nearest official weather station 4 miles away — found consistent 2–3°F urban heat island effects.

ESP32C++MQTTReactInfluxDBSolar Power

Software

Toy Programming Language

2023

Built a small interpreted programming language called 'Lumen' as a self-directed project to understand how compilers work. Lumen has a hand-written lexer, recursive descent parser, and tree-walking interpreter. It supports variables, functions, closures, and basic I/O.

About 2,000 lines of Python. Writing a language from scratch is the best way to understand why programming languages make the choices they do. I can now read language specs and understand the tradeoffs.

PythonCompiler TheoryASTRecursive Descent Parsing

Technical Skills

Hardware

ArduinoRaspberry PiESP32PCB Design3D PrintingLaser CuttingSoldering

Software

PythonC++JavaScriptReactTypeScriptTensorFlowOpenCV

Tools

Fusion 360DaVinci ResolveAdobe PremiereGitLinuxFirebaseInfluxDB