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ADITYA P VENUGOPAL SRMIST // SOPHOMORE // MECHATRONICS
[ROBOTICS SOPHOMORE // SRMIST // HARDWARE & CODE]

KINETIC
INTELLIGENCE
ROBOTICS.

I am a sophomore studying Robotics & Automation at SRMIST. Obsessed with the intersection of mechanical hardware, embedded electronics, and software, I derive kinematics, lay out custom PCBs in KiCad, and build working autonomous mechanisms from scratch.

SRMIST
B.Tech Sophomore
ROBOTICS
Kinematics & Sim
HARDWARE
PCB & Embedded
SYSTEMS
CAD & Controls
FIG. 01 // 3-DOF BIOMIMETIC MANIPULATOR [3-DOF KINEMATICS // GAIT CYCLE]
TESTBENCH // 1000Hz FOC
ORIGIN: (X:0, Y:0) BASE STATUS: RUNNING GAIT
θ1 [HIP] θ2 [KNEE] θ3 [ANKLE] EE: (294, 144)
SERVO TELEMETRY READOUT [LOCKED GAIT]
θ1 (HIP): +33.0°
θ2 (KNEE): +71.0°
θ3 (ANKLE): -26.0°
END-EFFECTOR (X, Y) X: 167.2mm, Y: 63.5mm
JACOBIAN TORQUES J1: 21.3 Nm | J2: 13.6 Nm
LATENCY: <0.42 ms STATUS: DETERMINISTIC
EXHIBIT // ARCHIVE 04 PROTOTYPES VOL. 2025

SELECTED PROTOTYPES

BAUHAUS NEO-BRUTALIST EXHIBITION
PROJECT DIRECTOR // CUBESAT ISRO LIAISON // 868MHz

LORA SPACE PROTOCOL // CUBESAT DOWNLINK

As Project Director for our CubeSat mission in contact with ISRO, I engineered an autonomous communication protocol to transmit orbital payload imagery over constrained LoRa bandwidth. Designed custom tile-based image slicing, forward error correction (FEC), packet parity checks, and loss-tolerant ground station reassembly.
ISRO Liaison CubeSat Director LoRa 868MHz FEC & CRC-32
DOWNLINK TELEMETRY LORA // FEC RS(255,223)
LORA 868MHz // PASS BER: <10⁻⁶ // 4/4 TILES ACK
SPEC_LOG #2025-PAD CNC ALUMINUM

AETHER PAD // APPLE-INSPIRED CUSTOM MACROPAD

My take on a minimalist Apple-aesthetic macropad named Aether Pad. I engineered this from scratch—machining the bead-blasted 6061 CNC aluminum unibody, self-designing the custom matte-black 4-layer hot-swap PCB in KiCad with USB-C ESD protection, and integrating a custom rotary encoder dial with low-profile tactile switches to build the exact desk tool I wanted to use every day.
Self-Designed PCB KiCad 8.0 EDA Silver CNC Unibody Low-Profile Switches Rotary Encoder Diamond-Cut Chamfers
3D // WEBGL UNIBODY MESH
DRAG TO ORBIT / CLICK KEYS
BEAD-BLASTED 6061 CNC UNIBODY
CHAMFER: 45° DIAMOND-MIRROR
ROBOTIC PEN PLOTTER G-CODE // CNC GANTRY [X:400 Y:300]

PLOTLY // ROBOTIC PEN PLOTTER

I designed and built Plotly—a custom CoreXY robotic pen plotter and CNC gantry engineered to translate digital parametric curves into precise analog pen drawings using a micro-servo pen lifter.
Dual Steppers CoreXY Kinematics Vector Path Synthesis Micro-Servo Pen Rig
CNC GANTRY SPECS
PLOTLY GANTRY: [ACTIVE] PEN: DOWN [SERVO: 42°]
G-CODE: CALLIGRAPHY
RETRO GAME JAM RP2040 // SPRIG

POST KNIGHT // SPRIG CONSOLE

I built 'Post Knight' for Hack Club's open-source Sprig handheld console powered by the Raspberry Pi RP2040—squeezing custom 16-color pixel bitmaps and tile-based puzzle mechanics into 264KB of SRAM.
Hack Club Sprig RP2040 MCU 160x128 Pixel Art
RP2040 // 133MHz 160×128 COLOR LCD
Post Knight Gameplay
JS ENGINE PASS MAP: 20×15 TILES
03 DISCIPLINES CORE COMPETENCIES DEPTH EVALUATION

DISCIPLINARY MATRIX

I don't believe in staying in a single lane. Building real-world mechatronic systems requires moving fluidly between PCB layout, bare-metal C++/Python control loops, and visual craft.

01 // HARDWARE developer_board

HARDWARE & ELECTRONICS

My playground for schematic capture, embedded compute architectures, PCB routing, rapid mechatronics prototyping, and circuit simulation.

MICROCONTROLLERSESP32 / STM32
EDA & CADKiCad
SIMULATIONLTspice
3D MODELINGFusion 360
FABRICATION & CIRCUITS
02 // SOFTWARE terminal

SOFTWARE & ROBOTICS

Where I bring mechanisms to life—writing physics simulations, middleware pipelines, kinematic solvers, and reactive web interfaces.

CORE LANGUAGEPython
FRONTENDWeb Design
FRAMEWORKROS 2
DYNAMICS ENGINEMuJoCo
AUTONOMY & SYSTEMS
03 // CREATIVE palette

CREATIVE & VISUAL

Engineering is storytelling. I build 3D industrial CAD models in Blender, wireframe interactive interfaces in Figma, and craft media that communicates technical intent.

3D RENDERINGBlender
UI/UX PROTOTYPINGFigma
GRAPHICSPhotoshop
POST-PRODUCTIONDaVinci Resolve
AESTHETIC & MEDIA
[OPEN TO ROBOTICS INTERNSHIPS & RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS]

LET'S ENGINEER WHAT MOVES NEXT.

Currently a sophomore studying Robotics at SRMIST, I'm always eager to collaborate on robotics, embedded hardware design, and innovative mechatronic systems.

SRMIST
CHENNAI, INDIA
ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION