| a forklift that knows where it is | may – jul 2025 | summer research internship at a defence company. autonomous forklift, naval dockyard, no GPS. we ended up writing our own radio ranging firmware. |
| smart switch board | 2025 – 2026 | I made my wall switches smart. started as a hobby, now I want to make it a real product. |
| stair-climbing wheelchair | may – nov 2025 | internship at NishCorp: making their wheelchair exist in simulation before it existed in steel, then helping build the half-scale prototype. |
| Kurma | 2025 | a four-legged robot that walks like a turtle. slow, stable, hard to tip over. |
| e-Yantra drone | oct 2024 – jan 2025 | a drone flying itself around a simulated warehouse, reading ArUco markers to know where it is. we reached the national semifinals. |
| MARIO | jul – aug 2024 | the 3-DOF arm students learn ROS2 on at my college. I ported it off a dying simulator and made it nicer to use. |
| VVM | jun – jul 2024 | say “pick up the red ball” and a robot arm finds it and picks it up. my first ROS2 project. |
| the feeder, the boat, and the coin sorter | 2024 – now | a cat feeder for the lab cat, a river-cleaning boat, and a coin sorter built in 24 hours. |
| first robots | dec 2023 – 2025 | a gesture-controlled car, a self-balancing bot, and a maze solver. where it all started. |