CARLETON UNIVERSITY / OTTAWA
PCB design, embedded systems, and robotics.
I’m an engineering student at Carleton University. I design circuit boards, write firmware, and bring prototypes up on the bench. I like tracing a problem from the power rails all the way through to the code.
Explore my projectsMY TOOLBOX
01 / EMBEDDED VISION
From camera pixels to live detection, on hardware I designed.
I built a six-layer board that connects an OV3660 camera, a Lattice ECP5 FPGA, and an ESP32-S3. I designed the PCB, wrote the Verilog video pipeline, and developed the firmware and Python preview.
In this demo, the FPGA processes the camera feed and draws a detection box around an orange. The ESP32-S3 carries the processed pixels over USB to the live preview on my computer.
INSIDE SATURNAI CAMERA
I designed this board, wrote the FPGA video pipeline, and brought up the prototype. Scroll from the camera input to the live USB preview, or click a chip to inspect it.
I used Ansys SIwave to model power-rail voltage drop and study signal return paths on earlier PCB revisions.
Both E-field sweeps cover 5 MHz–5 GHz. Read each map against its own selected frequency and colour scale. Select either image to open it full size.
| Field | Earlier | Refined |
|---|---|---|
| Electric | ≈ 15 kV/m | < 350 V/m |
| Magnetic | ≈ 1,000 A/m | < 7 A/m |
These figures come from the historical project notes. They cover a broader revision that also changed routing and power planes. The run settings for these values are unspecified.
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02 / ROBOTICS & CONTROL
A 3D-printed robotic arm with custom control electronics.
I designed the 3D-printed chassis and control PCB and wrote the C++ firmware for a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. The firmware uses inverse kinematics to calculate two joint angles for a target in the arm’s plane, then commands the servos.
The prototype needs repair before I can resume testing.
03 / CLUBS & RESEARCH
Student robotics at Carleton, undergraduate hardware research, and Hack Club.
CARLETON STUDENT DESIGN TEAM
Electrical lead
ARC designs and tests an autonomous RC race car. I led electrical planning, designed a power-distribution board, and worked on the wiring and interfaces that connect the vehicle’s electronics.
CARLETON · DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS
As an undergraduate research assistant, I’ve contributed to early PCB architecture for a system with multiple FPGAs. My work includes planning how the FPGAs connect, distributing power, and considering signal and power integrity in the layout.
HACK CLUB · COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
I co-led finance and logistics for Hack Club’s 24-hour Toronto game jam. The event brought students together to learn from workshops, form teams, and build games.
04 / COMPETITIVE ROBOTICS
Discobots Scorpio (1104S) · Team lead and head programmer
2025 Ontario provincial champion · VEX Worlds qualifier
I competed with Brampton Robotics teams in VEX IQ and VRC. My VEX IQ team qualified for VEX Worlds in the 2021–22 Pitching In season. I went on to compete in VRC in 2024.
I led programming for competition robots and worked on odometry, inertial sensing, pneumatics, and PID control. In the High Stakes season, 1104S and our alliance partner 1104V won the Ontario high school tournament. We qualified for VEX Worlds.
05 / PCB DESIGN
From vision hardware to robot control and input devices, each board has a different job.
ROBOT CONTROL
A custom KiCad board for a rover-inspired arm driven by a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.
Explore SaturnArm ↗
INPUT HARDWARE
A Pi Pico scans a full-size key matrix through SPI shift registers and drives a 128 × 32 OLED.
Explore the keyboard ↗06 / PROJECTS
Projects across mechanical design, firmware and interactive software.
CUSTOM INPUT HARDWARE
A full-size mechanical keyboard with a custom PCB and a printed case.
The case is split into three printable sections. An OLED shows lock status, and the firmware scans the key matrix.
ROBOTICS + UNITY
My hackathon team built a four-wheel robot with Leap Motion gesture control and an OLED that shows GitHub repository stats.
GitHub ↗
UNITY 3D
I built this four-level prototype for my Grade 10 IB Middle Years Programme personal project. Preview an anchor, then steer and adjust the cable length as you swing from a spring-joint grapple.
GitHub ↗
UNITY 2D
In May 2024, my team built Scrapter for the DPCDSB Game Development Competition at Sheridan College. In this platformer, you fight slimes, collect scrap, and forge it into metal to trade for weapons and level keys in the village.
GitHub ↗07 / CAD & PCBS
Inspect the project exports from every angle. PCB models show the available geometry.