I'm at Sarvam in Bangalore, working on ___. Before that I studied bioengineering at IIT Mandi, with a semester at RWTH Aachen.
Most of what I've built is some way for a machine to sense the world: smell, touch, how people move. Away from screens I take photos, fly drones, and go up mountains when I can.
I build things that sense the world, fly drones, and take photos. These days I'm at Sarvam.
This arm is a browser twin of the 5-DOF arm I built on an STM32. Every frame it runs inverse kinematics to turn where you point into five joint angles, keeping whichever elbow solution is closest to its current pose so it never flips. Each joint then follows its target through a critically damped controller with speed and acceleration limits, so it moves smoothly instead of snapping. Cursor jitter under 2px is ignored, and the wrist can't bend more than 100°.
the real arm: firmware + IK ↗this site's source ↗Started with Arduino kits as a kid, ended up running weekend robot workshops for other kids in my neighbourhood. Still the most fun I've had teaching.
Studied bioengineering, wrote a few papers on brains and noses, and spent Inter IIT trying to keep a quadrotor flying after one of its motors dies. (Try clicking a propeller.)
January 2024. Cold, slow, and worth every step.
Erasmus at RWTH, 2026. New lab, new language, a lot of trains, and some of my favourite light to shoot in.
Nov 2023 — Sakura Science, Tokyo. Saw JAXA up close. Still thinking about it.
Things I've made, mostly ones that sense something. [placeholder — details later]
Some of where I've been, mostly seen through a camera. [photos coming]
The formal list, for anyone who wants it.
The one-page version, for when you need it in a folder.
← buildsInter IIT Tech Meet 13 (IdeaForge): keeping a quadrotor in the air after one motor dies. [placeholder — write-up later]
[placeholder — motor-failure detection in PX4, INDI, three-loop controller, control allocation]
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← buildsInvention Factory, IIT Jammu: a faster, cheaper braille display. Each pin is lifted by a nitinol wire that shortens when it's warmed. [placeholder — write-up later]
[placeholder — compliant mechanism, 33% faster actuation, 50% cheaper, patent in US and India]
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← buildsAn electronic nose: 11 MEMS gas sensors in a ring, and a small neural network that tells 18 natural smells apart. IJCNN '25. [placeholder — write-up later]
[placeholder — sensor array, adaptive airflow, MLP and LSTM, 95%+ accuracy]
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The longer version. [placeholder — write later]
Bioengineering at IIT Mandi, a semester at RWTH Aachen, now at Sarvam. I like building things that sense the world, flying drones, and taking photos of mountains.