Hardware builds, fabrication programs, and embedded systems work. Sorted newest first.
22 projects
A solar aircraft designed for autonomous, multi-day flight
I recently joined Stanford's Swift Solar Plane Project. The team is building a solar-powered aircraft with a wingspan of more than five mete…
A local-first smart door and smart room system
An open-source, self-hosted smart-door and smart-room system built around a removable door-mounted appliance. A Raspberry Pi 5 with a Hailo …
A welded electric go-kart with multiplayer game mechanics
A go-kart I am building with friends that turns a physical track into a multiplayer Mario Kart-style game. We welded the frame ourselves, ar…
Level 2 high-power rocketry. Early build phase.
The step up from L1: a bigger motor, longer airframe, written exam, and a certification flight using at least one J, K, or L motor. NAR does…
Level 1 high-power rocketry. Built, waiting on a launch window.
My L1 certification rocket. Everything is built: airframe, avionics, recovery, parachute, preflight checklist. I just haven't had a launch w…
Automated daily dining recommendations via Discord. Python, OpenAI, GitHub Actions.
A scheduled Python pipeline that fetches Stanford's dining hall menus each day, scores every option against my actual dietary preferences, a…
Thrust vector control architecture for small rocket experiments
A thrust vector control prototype for small-scale rocket stabilization experiments. The work centers on a TVC stack that can be tested throu…
ESP32-based servo-actuated wall switch with WiFi scheduling
A mechatronic retrofit for a standard wall switch. An ESP32 drives a servo that physically actuates the toggle, a web interface running off …
Former manufacturing and structures lead for a fixed-wing UAV team
SkyRunners is a Stanford student team building a fixed-wing UAV system. From 2025 to 2026, I led manufacturing and structures, turning desig…
Selective dual enrollment. University-level physics and engineering during high school.
During high school, I joined the selective Junior Studium program at Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt as the second student from my school to be ac…
Science payload to ~30km with live sensor logging
A stratospheric balloon payload built with three classmates at Evangelisches Gymnasium Lippstadt. The gondola flew a Raspberry Pi 2B running…
Founded a school makerspace and handed it over to trained successors
Founded and ran the fabrication lab at Evangelisches Gymnasium Lippstadt during junior and senior year of high school. The school had five B…
Attitude control and mission operations. BepiColombo and LISA Pathfinder.
Two weeks at the European Space Agency in Grade 9. Work focused on attitude control systems for BepiColombo and LISA Pathfinder, analyzing s…
Hypersonic aerodynamics and scramjet testing at Mach 10
I spent one week at DLR (German Aerospace Center) in the hypersonic wind-tunnel facility. Under supervision, I worked with Mach 10 test equi…
Satellite operations and space systems program
Two weeks at EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites). Organized a space systems education program…
Combustion test program. Early stage.
A pulse jet build with two friends, focused on making the test setup repeatable before worrying about making it fast. The goal right now is …
Paused desktop-arm testbed for autonomous block stacking
A small desktop robotic arm built as a testbed for control logic and inverse kinematics. The target demo was autonomous wooden block stackin…
Content producer for a truck dealership. Final Cut, drones, cable cams.
I have produced and edited social media content for Autohaus Hecker, a truck dealership, since 2019. Along the way I picked up a full produc…
Competed solo against company-sponsored teams. Won most rounds.
Competed individually in the 2023 Advanced Additive Manufacturing Competition against teams of three or more people, all of them company-spo…
Co-authored with Harvard Summer School peers
A machine learning robotics project co-developed with two Harvard Summer School peers, targeting elderly assistance with daily household tas…
Co-directed, produced, and edited a short film. Grade 11.
I co-directed and co-wrote a short film about an abduction with five friends, then handled the VFX, an original soundtrack, and the final ed…
PHYS-S-12. Full coursework archive.
PHYS-S-12 at Harvard Summer School: eleven weeks covering laser cutting, CNC milling, casting, microcontroller programming, embedded sensor …