Sheet 02 / Index of workSydney, Australia

Projects

Things I've designed, built and had to make work.

A working index rather than a highlight reel. Hardware, software, and the places the two meet. Each entry says what it is and the constraint that made it interesting.

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PRJ-008In progress

Vision Aided Rocket Landing GNC

Landing a rocket on an estimated state.

A simulated guidance, navigation and control stack for a small rocket flying a powered landing. IMU, optical flow, radar altimeter and GPS are fused in an error state Kalman filter, an LQG controller closes the loop, and the full descent is visualised in Foxglove with live thrust vectoring and truth against estimate tracking.

Fig. 01A landing replayed in Foxglove: tracked descent, gimbal angles, thrust and descent rate, with estimate drawn against truth.

PythonError state Kalman filterLQG controlFoxglove

2026

PRJ-001Shelved

Convoii

Proximity voice comms for motorcyclists.

A cross platform mobile app for real time proximity voice communication between motorcyclists, with open comms for nearby riders and private crew channels. I designed and built the whole thing: the app, the interface, the icon pipeline, and the product strategy around a cold start density problem.

Fig. 01Open comms mid ride: riders in range placed by proximity around a live channel.

React NativeTypeScriptLiveKitNode.js

2025

PRJ-002Complete

GNN for Mechanical Health Monitoring

Teaching a network the shape of a machine.

My thesis. A graph neural network approach to health monitoring of robotic systems, modelling mechanical components and the interactions between them so degradation and faults show up before they become failures.

Fig. 01Live diagnosis in ROS 2: a fault called in on one joint, the network's answer beside it.

PythonPyTorchGraph Neural NetworksROS 2

2026

PRJ-003In progress

Cycloidal Drive and Robot Arm

The drive the home page is drawn from.

A dual disc cycloidal drive designed from first principles, as the basis for a 4 to 5 DoF robot arm. The drawing on the home page is generated from this design: the disc profile, pin ring and reduction are all computed from its real parameters. Drive built, arm next.

Fig. 01The drive assembled: bolted output flange on top, motor at the base.

CADMechanical designKinematics

2025

PRJ-004Archived

Table Tennis Computer Vision

Tracking a 40mm ball at speed.

A real time ball tracking system using HSV filtering and motion analysis to measure ball speed accurately from ordinary video.

Fig. 01The tracker running: an HSV mask locks a box onto the ball frame by frame, with the frame count and travel direction printed over the feed.

PythonOpenCV

2024

PRJ-005Archived

Stockman

Stock management, end to end.

A full stack inventory management system with complete CRUD functionality and a clean interface, plus a web scraper that automates product data collection.

React.jsNode.jsMongoDBTailwind

2024

PRJ-006Live

Click and Collect Valet

Built for a live shop floor.

A real time order management system deployed in a working retail environment, handling up to 12 concurrent valets and hundreds of orders a day.

JavaScriptFirebaseHTMLCSS

2023

PRJ-007Live

ASCII Ocean

Fluid motion out of a fixed character grid.

A generative ocean rendered entirely in text. 3D simplex noise sampled per character cell and redrawn at 30fps in the browser. It was the background of the previous version of this site, and it now lives on the 404 page.

JavaScriptReactsimplex-noise

2024

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