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Personal projects

My own work — separate from the client projects on the Services page. These are what I build to grow as an engineer and maker: pushing my electronics, CAD/CAM, 3D scanning and mesh work, and controls. Click any project to read how it was built.

01JUN 2026IN PROGRESS

Reaction-Wheel Cube

A reaction-wheel cube built on a machined aluminum frame — spin a flywheel one way and the frame torques the other, which is enough to hold the cube upright on an edge.

Reaction wheelIMU + control loopIn progress

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The machined frame with a wheel and drive motor mounted

The cube in CAD — three reaction wheels on orthogonal axes

Machined corner blocks, straight off the machine

02AUG 2025

Toby — Tracked Robot

A tracked robot platform running a Raspberry Pi, RPLIDAR, and a camera, driven from a local web interface with live video over the network.

Raspberry PiRPLIDAR142 printed parts

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The complete platform — tracks, sensor deck, and cooling

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The real thing — RPLIDAR on the sensor deck

03OCT 2025

Puller UAV

A one-metre fixed-wing UAV, designed from the wing section outwards and built as a complete airframe. It flew once, stalled on the climb-out, and the CFD I ran afterwards predicts its lift within 1.7 % of the airframe's measured weight.

1 m span15.43 N liftCFD within 1.7 %

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Streamlines over the aircraft, coloured by velocity — upwash ahead of the wing, downwash behind it

Vorticity isosurface at 800 1/s — horseshoe vortices wrapping the wing and fin roots

Surface pressure, upper surface — the blue suction across both wings is the lift

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AUG 2026

Arctos Robot Arm

On 14 August a joint drove 111° the wrong way into its own end stop. The clamp that should have caught it was blind to exactly the two axes that ran away.

6 axesIK from scratchno ROS

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