team of four. i owned the electronics and system integration - wiring five subsystems into one 3d-printed body that an amputee can actually put on.

hardest bits: pid-tuning the gimbal so the wrist stays level mid-motion, balancing the thing on a phone-light frame without it pulling on the residual limb, and laying out power so the emg pickup doesn't get noisy.

real users wore it. their feedback set the brief - comfort first, everything else second. fully working, fully tested, £68.98 in parts.

i was running a small online shop and drowning in two tasks: hunting for the cheapest supplier per product, and pushing checkouts through.

wrote a selenium bot that scrapes price across sites and evaluates your basket automatically - then hands the order to veeqo's api for fulfilment. that's where the name comes from, it grades the basket.

monthly orders went from 50 to 250+, mostly because i wasn't the bottleneck anymore.

uni computing module. wanted to ship a real thing, so i built it full-stack - html + js + ramda for the functional game core, hosted on aws route 53.

ramda forced me to keep state immutable, which made the move logic trivial to reason about once i got over the syntax. picked up cursor for the agentic side of the loop and photoshop for the in-game art.

live at blockhunt.co.uk if you want a round.

year-1 thermofluids. picked the cybertruck for the obvious reason - those flat panels are a cfd target.

ran ansys on the stock geometry, identified separation off the front fascia, reshaped it, re-ran: 12% drag-coefficient improvement on my own baseline.

second half was a battery-pack cooling design for the same truck - sized pipe diameter against thermal load to find the optimum trade between flow rate and pressure drop. both pieces in one project.

industry research project, ongoing. the cell takes red-hot titanium blanks out of a furnace and feeds them into a 100-tonne hydraulic press for consistent material testing - currently a human-exposure problem we're trying to make repeatable.

i'm the programmer wiring the systems together: ur12e arm, robotiq hand-e gripper, sensors, press trigger.

the non-obvious challenge is the gripping itself - hot titanium is soft enough that the wrong jaw geometry dents the blank before you've even moved it.

this is how it started. very into computers, very into woodwork, no money - so i cad'd a desk in solidworks with the pc integrated into the body, then cut every piece on a table saw in the garage.

custom cooling loop with rgb fans, each one individually cabled into a central hub. three years on and off.

this build is the reason i picked design engineering - i wanted a career making things people want to look at.