2018 — 2022
the first ones.
an arduino, a breadboard, and a bag of parts i did not understand yet.
i watched videos and tried to copy them with the parts i had, which was never the parts they had.
after that
hi, i’m atharva.
i study mechanical engineering at IIT Indore and like building small machines. this is how it started.
my dad has a furniture workshop. i used to go there just to watch.
projects
what i’ve worked on since 2024. almost all of it in college labs, with friends.
2026
DUNE
an open-source system that lets a ground robot work out where it is, and which way it’s facing, indoors without GPS.
2025–26
self-powered fault detection
self-powered sensors that listen to a machine and notice when something is going wrong.
oct–dec 2025
eternal
a robot that drives through a warehouse and reads every QR code on the shelves.
jan–feb 2026
gesture control glove for addverb cobot and autonomous pick and place
a robot arm you can ask to pick things up, or steer with a sensor glove.
jan–may 2026
cement 3d printer
a 3d printer a metre wide that prints with cement.
2026
ball balancing bot
a tilting plate that watches a ball and keeps it from rolling off.
2025–26
aqualoop
it sits between two pipes, checks the water going through, and works out what can be reused.
nov 2025
low-speed wind tunnel
a tabletop wind tunnel, and a cheap way to actually see the air move.
aug 2025 –
machine management system
tap a card to switch on a lab machine. it runs five machines in the tinkerers’ lab.
may–aug 2025
custom esp32 flight controller
a flight controller board i designed that holds a drone steady without GPS.
2025
line follower → patrolling bot
a line follower that also streams video, and spins on the spot when you press SOS.
jan–aug 2025
nogps autonomous drone
a drone that takes off, hovers and lands by itself, built for a mars-like arena.
2025
morphobot
a drone that lands, folds its arms down and drives away on them.
2024–25
micromouse
a small robot that finds its own way through a maze.
2025
gait-analysis shoes
shoes with sensors that watch how you walk. i stopped this one.
2025
power-harvesting army boots
army boots that make their own electricity while you walk. i worked on the circuit that stores it.
say hi.
if you’d like to talk about any of this, email is the easiest way to reach me.
atharvachavan346@gmail.com