I'm a Mechatronics Engineering student at Kent State University, in the Honors College with a minor in Computer Science. I like building robots from start to finish: designing the parts in CAD, making them with 3D printing and machining, wiring the electronics, and writing the code that makes them move. Before university, I spent two years building automated production machinery in Nepal.
I'm the Prototyping Manager at the Advanced Telerobotics Research (ATR) Lab and a robotics hardware co-op on the Plaipin AI companion robot. I'm most interested in expressive and humanoid robots, mobile robots and human–robot interaction.
I share my projects here as step-by-step build guides, so others can learn from them and build their own.
Robot parts and mechanisms designed in CAD and built into working prototypes.
Microcontrollers, sensors and motors wired together, with firmware that runs them.
Control loops, ROS and simulation that make robots move.
Automated production machines and PLC equipment, built, wired and tested.
A small two-wheeled robot that balances on its own, like a mini Segway, and can be driven and tuned over Wi-Fi from a PC app.
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How to talk to devices that share one data wire, like DYNAMIXEL smart servos, using the ESP32's normal UART, one jumper wire and a few lines of code.
View project →A low-cost, modular mobile robot designed for easy fabrication and expansion.
View project →An expressive robotic head combining mechanical motion systems and embedded electronics.
View project →I. S. Cardenas, M. A. Arnett, N. C. Yeo, L. Sah, and J.-H. Kim, “ROSClaw: An OpenClaw ROS 2 Framework for Agentic Robot Control and Interaction,” arXiv preprint, 2026. arXiv:2603.26997
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