// BUILD LOG

Projects

A record of my projects dating back to 2022. Filter by topic.

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IN PROGRESS
2026

Machine Learning Pipeline for Egocentric Object Tracking

A machine learning pipeline that segments and tracks tools in egocentric video of a tailor at work. It chains two foundation models: Grounding DINO, an open-vocabulary detector, localizes objects from the plain-English names a Gemini captioning stage produces, and SAM2 propagates each mask through the video, re-detecting every few seconds so new objects get picked up.

Machine learningComputer visionGrounding DINOSAM2
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BUILT
2026

Custom OpenArm 2.0

7 DoF bi-manual robotics arms. Built for Robotics Center of Silicon Valley (YC S25); A custom rebuild of the open-source OpenArm — casings redesigned in CAD, wiring reworked, and the stock camera swapped out.

CADWiringRobotics
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COMPETITION
2025–2026

Dugtrio

My robot for the DECODE season and my fourth and final FTC build. Took the Overall Inspire Award at the Chesapeake Championship, then a Division Inspire Award at the World Championship — 1st in the US, 2nd in the world.

FTCMechanical designCAD
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IN PROGRESS
2026

Contactless Vitals Monitor

An mmWave radar system (Seeed MR60BHA2) for contactless vitals tracking, aimed at CPAP sleep monitoring. Validated with real-world users outside the lab.

mmWave radarPythonSignal processing
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SHIPPED
2026

Dev Typing Analyzer

A VS Code extension that captures keystroke timing — bigrams, heatmaps, WPM over time, mistype tracking — surfaced through a live dashboard. Packaged as a distributable .vsix.

TypeScriptNode.jsChart.js
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SHIPPED
2026

Fat Tails: A Backtest Post-Mortem

Built a statistical arbitrage backtester on BTC/ETH and hit a 74–77% win rate — that still lost money. A study in how a high hit rate and a profitable strategy are not the same thing.

PythonpandasStatistics
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SHIPPED
2025

Wheelchair w/ Electromagnetic Suspension

Replacing passive spring-damper hardware with electromagnetic actuators on a wheelchair chassis, allowing damping response to be tuned in real time to the terrain.

ElectromagneticsMechanical designControls
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BUILT
2025

JarvisSort

An AI-driven robotic sorting gantry built through UMD's Cyber-Physical Systems program — vision-guided pick-and-place applied outside a competition setting.

Computer visionRoboticsGantry control
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COMPETITION
2024–2025

Blastoise

My robot for the INTO THE DEEP season. Took 3rd place for the Innovate Award and served as 8th alliance captain through playoffs at the World Championship.

FTCMechanical designCAD
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WRITE-UP
2024–2025

CNC Documentation

Documentation covering CNC machining workflow — setup, tooling, and process notes built up across a season of fabrication so the knowledge outlived the build.

CNCCAMTechnical writing
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BUILT
2024–2025

Ocean Pollution Monitor

A sensing platform for water-quality monitoring, logging pollution measurements over time for analysis.

EmbeddedSensorsData logging
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BUILT
2023

CV Joints

Design and fabrication of constant-velocity joints to transmit power through articulating drivetrain geometry without velocity fluctuation.

Mechanical designMachiningCAD
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BUILT
2024

Electromagnetic Suspension Module

A suspension module using magnetic actuation for active damping in place of conventional spring-and-damper hardware — the prototype the wheelchair work grew out of.

ElectromagneticsMechanical designPrototyping
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COMPETITION
2023–2024

Dru

My robot for the CENTERSTAGE season, finishing as Grand Finalist at the Chesapeake regional.

FTCMechanical designCAD
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BUILT
2023

Beta Stirling Engine

A beta-configuration Stirling engine converting a temperature differential into mechanical work, with displacer and power piston sharing a single cylinder.

ThermodynamicsMachiningMechanical design
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COMPETITION
2022–2023

Nutmeg

My robot for the POWERPLAY season, campaigned across three regions — Chesapeake, New Mexico, and Alabama.

FTCMechanical designCAD
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SHIPPED
2022

Auction Sniping Bot

A bot that places bids in the closing seconds of online auctions, timing submissions to land after competing bidders have stopped responding.

PythonAutomationWeb scraping
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