Welcome to my website. I'm currently a senior in computer science at Purdue University. I am interested in systems programming, machine learning, and embedded software development. I love building projects, so I use this website to showcase some of the ones I am most proud of.
As a member of the Purdue Space Program's club payload subteam, our challenge in the 2021-2022 competition was to locate our landed rocket without
using GPS. This posed a difficult problem which we chose to solve using radio triangulation.
We used 3 radio antenna at our ground control
station to communicate with a vertically deployed antenna from the payload bay of the landed rocket. After that was deployed, radio packets
were sent between the ground control station and the payload bay to determine its location. Since radio waves travel at the speed of light,
that meant roughly every nanosecond that the packet traveled translated to about 1 foot of distance. That challenged us to use highly efficient
interrupt-driven code and algorithms. In the end, we weren't able to perfectly triangulate the rocket, but we were able to find it's distance
to within about ±50 feet.
The ground control station without the radios
Me setting up the ground control station on launch day
The payload bay with the antenna extended
For my Software Engineering I class, myself and 5 other members worked together on a semester long project of our choice.
Since it was the peak of covid, we decided to create a virtual card game: VirtuCards.
That allowed people to play card games with their friends without actually touching physical cards.
This was designed using the Unity game engine to create both a host and client application.
The host can support up to 10 other clients and can select between a number of game choices like Uno, Poker, War, and even a freeplay mode.
There are a number of features that allow players to customize their experiences like custom backgrounds, player profiles, and an integrated chat system.
This is one of the first large projects I ever completely finished. After an initial prototype, my brother and I worked together to custom
design, build, and program our own robotic arm. After calculating and programming all the kinematics, we were able to achieve ~5 mm of accuraccy when
sending it instructions to move.
All the mechanical parts are 3D printed and are controlled with stepper motors. They are
driven by an Arduino Mega microcontroller and Raspberry Pi working in tandem. The Arduino maintained the control loop, while the Raspberry Pi
allowed us to build a React Native application to wirelessly connect to and control the arm.
The arm in development
A video of the arm moving
The Raspberry Pi & Arduino Core