hi, I'm Kartikey
I'm an electrical engineering student at VJTI, Mumbai. I build robots. They usually work in the end.
This site is the stuff I've made. Poke around — there are some toys hidden in here.
right now: a motor with no iron in it · call me at midnight with an idea
start here
the four I'd show you first
- the motor is the PCB (axial-flux BLDC)350 rpm/V built · zero coggingMy final year project. A brushless motor with no iron and no wound coils — the stator is just a circuit board with copper spirals on it.
- Piko's electronics (biped)one power board, 17 motorsI designed the boards for Piko, a small biped, at Eyecandy Robotics. The hard one was the power board — 17 motors out of one battery.
- a forklift that knows where it is (SLAM on a 4-wheeled forklift)315 m ranging, 0.4% error over 10,000 m²summer research internship at a defence company. autonomous forklift, naval dockyard, no GPS. we ended up writing our own radio ranging firmware.
smart switch board (IoT wall switch)hardware → firmware → cloud → appI made my wall switches smart. started as a hobby, now I want to make it a real product.
everything
all 11 of them, roughly in the order I built them · reload the page for a different robot above
first robots (car, balancer, maze solver)
the feeder, the boat, and the coin sorter (3 small machines)
VVM (voice-controlled manipulator)
MARIO (manipulator)
e-Yantra drone (quadcopter)
Kurma (quadruped)
stair-climbing wheelchair (differential drive)- smart switch board (IoT wall switch)
a forklift that knows where it is (SLAM on a 4-wheeled forklift)
Piko's electronics (biped)
the motor is the PCB (axial-flux BLDC)
Also: I run robot workshops at SRA, made a short film with friends once (it won), and our lab cat has her own robot.