Ongoing Projects

aiko.

aiko. (previously agile.) is a MedTech startup working to enable real-time voice translation in a medical setting. We were one of the winners of UofT Entrepreneurship Hatchery's summer incubator program NEST, and are currently working on pilot studies with multiple long-term care homes in Toronto.

Hatchery profile aiko. in the news!

Plane n' Simple ✈️

A couple of friends learning aerodynamics, embedded electronics, and control systems by designing and building our own remote-controlled aircraft. Currently in detail design of:

PNS Hydrogen
2m wingspan fixed-wing plane with custom foam airframe and off-the-shelf electronics
PNS Neutrino
an STM32 powered, low-cost micro drone under 250g

Traffic Light Controller

Allows wireless control of multiple traffic lights (of up to 5 heads each) over up to 500m line-of-sight via mesh LoRA and a custom-built communication protocol.

Designed for aUToronto, University of Toronto's award-winning self-driving car team, where I serve as Systems Technical Director.

Completed Projects

RoboDog

A small-sized robot dog (approx. ankle height) based on the CAD open-sourced by James Bruton, with from-scratch inverse kinematics and addition of motion sensitive (IMU) controller. Exploring my budding interests in control systems and bio-inspired robotics with a friend!

Supported by a #RisingYouth grant from TakingITGlobal/Government of Canada.

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Intel TDX Side-Channel Attacks

As part of summer research with Prof. Lie's Toronto Systems Security Lab, I explored cache side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel's latest-gen confidential computing technology for CPUs: Intel TDX.

Funded by an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.

SSB Demodulator

Built a single sideband demoulator as part of a team-based hardware design course, to be integrated with other modules to form a software-defined radio transceiver in the 8-16 MHz (HF) band.

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FlightPGA

Almost completed retro 3D flight simulator in Verilog on the DE1-SoC (w/ Altera Cyclone V FPGA). Included fully pipelined vector/matrix operations and SDRAM based VRAM.

Unfortunately, slow VRAM performance was too problematic, see FlightPGA2 for its successor!

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FlightPGA2

Second attempt at building a 3D flight simulator from scratch on the DE1-SoC, this time in C++ on a Nios II soft-core running on the Altera Cyclone V FPGA.
Even interfaces with a HOTAS joystick and includes environmental sound effects!

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TreeVisualizer

An open-source tree-like visualizer for Notion databases, primarily for visualizing requirements at UTAT Space Systems design team, where we are building two 3U cube-sats (HERON launched Q3 2023, FINCH launching soon).

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PicoPowerMeter

A DC voltage/current/power/energy meter using the Raspberry Pi Pico, aiming to be accurate to ± 0.1% @ 0-24V and 0-1.5A.

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R.A.P.I.D.

A multi-device approach to managing remote patient monitoring (RPM) using COTS hardware powered by OpenCV to prevent bed sores. [Hackathon Project]: MakeUofT 2023.

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Rover Remote E-Stop

LoRaWAN-based long range (1 km+) wireless emergency stop to increase safety for a competition rover. Built at Robotics for Space Exploration (RSX) design team.

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SimpleBuck

Module to evaluate the suitability of TI's TPS565201 IC for UTAT Space Systems' FINCH cube-sat. Converts 17V to 3.3V and 5V.