I am a freshman at the University of Maryland. Most of my projects involve robots, physics, random tooling, or shoving Rust into places it doesn't belong. Here are some of my favorites.
A 2D SPH fluid simulation that I upgraded to 3D for my AP Physics final project. Sebastian Lague's first fluid simulation video was a big inspiration. Somehow, I managed to write everything in Rust, including wgpu for the host code and rust-gpu for the shaders, which compiled to SPIR-V.
I wrote about making the 2D version and dragging it into the third dimension.
Although not a solo project, my biggest personal accomplishment in the 2026 FRC season was pioneering the use of a Meta Quest 3S to replace PhotonVision entirely, giving us the most accurate localization we've ever had and getting us an Innovation in Controls award, finally completing our award hexfecta.
Better pose estimates also let me completely redesign our autonomous around a position-based pathfinder rather than the velocity- and time-based trajectory following used by both Choreo and PathPlanner. Although slightly slower (mostly due to a lack of time to tune my algorithm), our routines could recover from bumps, wheel slippage, and temporary jams.
I could never have done this without the help of Dev Bhatia, Naomi Li, or Sidney Xia.
Named after this wonderful old game piece I found at our practice field.
An attendance system for FRC teams, because Google Forms and spreadsheets were kind of a pain. It has an end-to-end encrypted student database with WebAssembly on the client, a generated OpenAPI schema, and the only fully type-safe form library I've ever seen.
You can also just click a button to deploy it yourself, which I find to be very cool.
Truly the epitome of "shoving Rust in places it doesn't belong:" a tiny operating system for RISC-V, written from scratch, in Rust. Although it's temporarily on ice while I work on other stuff, I hope to come back to it and hopefully (re)do a large portion in C.
This started as a janky programming language that transpiled Rust-ish code into Java, mostly because I was taking AP Computer Science and did not enjoy writing boilerplate. Currently, I'm working on hacking rustc to see if I can get the combined power of the MIR, HIR, and THIR to get some actual Rust compiling up to Java.
kbnt -- Keyboard over NetworkTables
We got fancy new controllers with extra paddles which could act as keyboard keys, but not as separate controller buttons. I wrote an itty-bitty Rust program, making use of some low-level Windows API hooks to catch those keypresses and send them to the robot.
It also got flagged as a keylogger by my school’s antivirus.
A units-of-measure library I made in about a day and will probably use for every physics-related project from here on out. uom takes too long to compile, what else can I say?
I contributed dynamic NetworkTables struct parsing to Elastic Dashboard, maintain a k3s homelab (working on publishing GitOps), and once made a proof-of-concept chessboard that moved pieces with electromagnets.