Projects

A new kind of instrument: half MIDI controller, half digital synthesizer in a violin form factor, built from salvaged parts over 18 months. Performed live with the San Francisco Symphony.

Automated critical test software (3.9× faster, 88% fewer clicks), recovered $1M+ in failing hardware, and designed a custom communications integration board in Cadence Allegro. Earned 1st Place National HP Way Award.

Custom 8-foot diameter LED lighting system for Stanford's historic Memorial Church, controlling 3,000+ addressable LEDs for the Stanford Light Opera Company's production of Hunchback of Notre Dame.

A spiking neural network system capable of playing Pong with higher precision and dramatically lower power consumption than conventional compute. Built in Stanford's Brains in Silicon lab.

Designed, fabricated, and built a custom ProCo Rat2 clone guitar pedal from scratch — then turned it into a workshop where 40+ students built their own.

Designed and fabricated a custom motor-control and communications interfacing board for Stanford EE's FLIGHT kinetic sculpture, featuring 4 power levels, differential signal conversion, and long-term power efficiency optimization.

High-precision PID-controlled flywheel launching system for a student robotics competition, capable of tossing foam balls into a 1×1" target from 16 feet with hall-effect sensor feedback.

A functional computer built entirely from bare-metal assembly: keyboard input, HDMI output, a custom terminal, print commands, and a digital audio synthesizer — all without an OS.

iOS app that tracks what's in your pantry, suggests what you can cook, and tells you what to pick up next time you're at the store. Built in CS194W, led to a professor's invitation to teach the course.

Servo-controlled mechanical fingers that play a melodica autonomously, driven by a data-efficient Arduino control system that represents sheet music as internal arrays and computes note lengths on the fly.

Designed and built a full wireless audio setup for Chi Alpha at Stanford using the Behringer XAir 18, adding wireless IEMs, new speaker systems, and signal processing presets to simplify operation for new audio engineers.