Samiul Hoque
I build things at the intersection of hardware and software.
Mostly whatever the project needs.
I'm an engineer based in Bangladesh. I work across electronics, embedded systems, fabrication, and full-stack software — usually all of them at once, because the projects I end up on tend to need it. Fab Academy graduate, founding engineer at Ghorar Dim, and on the lookout for interesting opportunities.
Currently
- 2022 → Founding engineer, Ghorar Dim Studios — kinetic animation devices, spinoscopes, praxinoscopes, a Bangla word clock. Saiqa makes the art; I figure out how to turn it into product.
- Background CS graduate. Been building things professionally since 2014.
- Open On the lookout for substantive work where the breadth of what I do is the point, not a problem to manage.
Selected work
Full archive →
Holonomic Odometry Testbed
Built a four-mecanum-wheel robot to understand holonomic kinematics hands-on — how the math works, where wheels slip, and what it takes to correct for it in firmware.
BlackHorse HAB
Sent a Bangladeshi flag to 32.45 km on a helium balloon. Built the electronics, the antenna, and the payload. Recovered everything.
Fab Academy 2019 — Weekly Documentation
19 weeks of build logs — laser cutting, PCB design, CNC machining, molding, embedded programming, and more.
Lumo / Elektra — vehicle CAN bus reader
Two-revision vehicle CAN bus reader built at TeroLabs — v1 a Raspberry Pi HAT for prototyping, v2 a standalone BLE device for in-car deployment.
WiFi Picchi
Community internet hotspots at slum tea stores in Dhaka. Five taka for three hours of WiFi, paid by token, hosted by the shop.
Publications & writing
Full list →- 2026
- 2024
- 2024
Affiliations & companies
CCSE, IUB
Teaching & community
- Kolpokoushol attendee 2014, then local facilitator (×2), then mentor (×2) through 2019
- Arduino Day Dhaka multiple years, mostly facilitating
- CCSE & Fab Lab IUB workshops electronics, fabrication, design — for students and the broader maker community
- SANOG32 South Asia's biggest network operator conference — our team somehow ranked best despite being networking newbies
A bit more
Fifteen years of saying yes to interesting problems. Robotics contests, a slum-internet startup, automotive telematics, kinetic animation devices, a fab lab grant, a praxinoscope or two, a weather balloon that came back from 32 kilometres up.