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Hackathons: Ship It in a Weekend
A decade of hackathons — from a first win at Bordercity 2017 to NASA Space Apps and Toronto. Some wins, some losses — every one a full product cycle compressed into 36 hours: idea, hardware, software, pitch. Recent history on Devpost.
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Design in pixels, then a robot draws it on paper for real. Camera-vision positioning, ESP32 motor control, Next.js + WebSockets, Gemini-generated designs.
Projected ping-pong with an edge-AI-tracked smart paddle — feel each impact through four-quadrant spatial haptics, all processed on-device.
Real-time presentation coaching: live speech analysis flags pacing over 160 wpm and nudges you through a vibrating IoT wearable. React, FastAPI, AssemblyAI, ESP32.
Give your EV battery a second life in a microgrid — a platform to collect, test, and repurpose end-of-life EV batteries for energy storage. Born from my battery research.
NASA Space Apps Challenge: visualizing near-Earth asteroid data to make planetary defense tangible. Won Windsor and earned a global nomination.
The drawing robot, rebuilt: AprilTag fiducial tracking for precise camera-vision positioning, 18650 power, and a cleaner chassis.
Mobile app helping people explore the trails, parks, and heritage parks of Windsor.
Winning entry in the automotive UI/UX challenge — designing and building a recreational-vehicle interface in C#.
Keeping all the electric vehicles on the grid — managing EV charging load at scale.
Desktop application providing trustworthy Covid-19 statistics from countries around the world.
First hackathon, first win — a Python weather app that started a decade of building under pressure.
A first-person zombie shooter controlled entirely by hand motion.
A virtual Connect 4 app built in a weekend.
Numerical methods under time pressure: e^x to any required number of correct significant digits.
Route optimization with an environmental lens.
Four straight 1st places in WEC programming (2020–2023) and four Ontario Engineering Competition appearances — see the full record.