| 🏆 Houston Worlds | 🥇 NJ Championship | 🤝 STEM Leadership | ⚡ Custom Electronics | 🖨️ Additive Builds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39th Division Rank | Finalist Captain • 5-0 | 500+ Mentoring Hrs • 2.7k+ Reached | 79-Part Carrier PCB | 12 CAD Revisions |
"I design and build physical systems from first principles — mechanical CAD, custom PCB layout, embedded control firmware, and modern agentic software."
- 🎓 Education: High School Mechatronics Builder, Class of 2026 @ John P. Stevens High School (Edison, NJ).
- 🤖 Founder & Captain, FIRST Tech Challenge Team 23786 "MakEMinds": Led team across mechanical architecture, CNC/3D fabrication, and autonomous control. Built autonomous navigation using Pedro Pathing with Bézier Curves & de Casteljau splines, Limelight 3A vision tracking, and closed-loop PID velocity control. Won 1st Place at NJ State Championship (5-0), won NJ University Cup, and competed at the FIRST World Championship in Houston (39th Division Rank).
- 🦅 Board Member, FIRST Robotics Competition Team 2554 "The Warhawks": Direct corporate sponsorships, strategy, scouting systems, and brand outreach across a 50+ member organization.
- 🤝 Community & Mentorship: Dedicated 500+ mentoring hours across 4 FLL teams and founded FTC Team PulseDrive. Hosted 15 STEM outreach events reaching 2,700+ students, raised $15,000+ in sponsorships, and represented New Jersey at the US Governor's Cup.
- 🛠️ Full-Stack Physical Engineering: From scratch-built Cartesian 3D printers and multi-tool toolchangers to custom 4-legged quadruped robots, 6-axis arm carrier PCBs, and autonomous quadcopter flight controllers.
graph LR
CAD["📐 Mechanical CAD<br/><i>Onshape • Fusion 360</i>"] --> PCB["⚡ Custom PCB Design<br/><i>KiCad 8 • DRC Clean</i>"]
PCB --> EMB["🔌 Embedded Firmware<br/><i>C++ • Rust • FreeRTOS</i>"]
EMB --> AUT["🎯 Edge Vision & Controls<br/><i>Limelight • Pedro Pathing • OpenCV</i>"]
AUT --> SYS["🧠 Systems & AI<br/><i>Next.js 15 • Python • Swift</i>"]
| Project | Focus | Description | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| roboPet | Robotics & AI | Autonomous 4-legged quadruped robot dog. Dual-processor architecture: Raspberry Pi Pico (real-time inverse kinematics & gait) + Raspberry Pi Zero 2W (local vision & speech pipeline), dual XL4016 buck regulation, Onshape CAD, printed on Bambu Lab A1 Mini. |    |
| Gerald Rev 2 | Robotics & PCB | Custom ESP32-S3 carrier board for a 6-axis robotic arm with 6x STS3215 serial bus servos. 79 components, 12V 10A servo bus, synchronous buck converter, DRC-clean layout. |   |
| ESP32 QuadX Drone | Aerospace | Custom quadcopter flight controller and handheld 2.4GHz joystick transmitter with low-latency telemetry and clamped throttle mapping. |   |
| Orochi Toolchanger | Mechatronics | Multi-tool CoreXY 3D printer evolution built on Ender 5 Pro with Klipper, StealthChanger toolchanger, and custom kinematic toolheads. |   |
| M.I.R.A. | Room AI & Vision | Interactive room assistant with sub-pixel ArUco projector auto-homography calibration (0.0px error), Rust daemon, and local voice loop. |   |
| Nana E-Book Reader | Accessibility & Embedded | Offline accessibility reading device on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W featuring camera text capture, OpenCV preprocessing, Tesseract OCR, and Piper Neural TTS audio playback. | |
| notchTerm | Systems & macOS | MacBook notch-overlay companion visualizer providing glanceable terminal monitoring, process statuses, and system HUD. |   |
| SmartInvest | Fintech & AI | Full-stack equity intelligence dashboard with streaming AI market analysis, emerging markets stock screening, and guest-first architecture. |   |
| aryavora.com | Web & Graphics | Personal portfolio and engineering lab showcase with 3D interactions, smooth physics, and Playwright verification. |  |
🤖 FIRST Tech Challenge (Team 23786 MakEMinds) — Autonomous Control & Subsystems
- Autonomous Trajectory Generation: Integrated Pedro Pathing utilizing Bézier curves defined by Bernstein polynomials and the de Casteljau algorithm for continuous curvature real-time obstacle avoidance.
- Vision Localization: Limelight 3A AprilTag detection paired with sub-pixel pose estimation to dynamically correct robot odometry drift during competition cycles.
- Velocity Compensation: Closed-loop PID velocity compensator tuning flywheel RPM relative to battery voltage sag and target range.
- Physical Subsystems: High-speed compliant Mecanum intake, motorized indexing transfer mechanism, and an angle-adjusting hood outtake with dual weighted flywheels.
⚡ Gerald Rev 2 — Custom 6-Axis Robotic Arm Carrier PCB Architecture
- Compute & Connectivity: Espressif ESP32-S3 microcontroller with dedicated hardware UART buses routed for serial bus servos.
- High-Current Power Stage: Integrated 12V 10A bus powering 6x STS3215 high-torque serial bus servos, supported by an onboard synchronous step-down buck converter.
- Signal Integrity & Protection: Star-grounding topology isolating logic and power planes, TVS diode reverse voltage protection, and comprehensive LC ripple filtering.
- Design Rule Compliance: Layout routed entirely in KiCad 8 with zero DRC clearance errors or unrouted nets.
🛠️ Multi-Material System (AIO_MMS) & Orochi Toolchanger
- AIO MMS (4-Filament Switcher): Parametrically modeled in Autodesk Fusion 360 and OpenSCAD with a motorized selector hub, high-torque feeder drives, and custom Klipper MMU macros.
- Orochi Toolchanger: CoreXY kinematic conversion on an Ender 5 Pro chassis using Klipper firmware, StealthChanger kinematic docking mounts, and custom toolhead wiring harnesses.
| Domain | Stack & Tooling |
|---|---|
| Mechanical CAD & Fab |   Bambu Lab A1 Mini, Cartesian & CoreXY 3D Printers, Metal Fabrication |
| Electronics & PCB |   Power Electronics (Buck/LDO), Logic Analyzers, SMD Hot Air Rework |
| Embedded & Firmware |  MicroPython, ESP-IDF, UART, SPI, I2C, ESP-NOW |
| Software & AI |  -007396?style=flat-square&logo=openjdk&logoColor=white){kind=icon} |
