What I've built.
A working archive. Some of these have full pages; others are stubs while I write them up. Roughly chronological, organised by what kind of work it was.
Documented
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.
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 Lab IUB
Helped win a World Bank grant to set up a digital fabrication lab at IUB. The lab is still running.
Fab Academy 2019
Nineteen weeks of digital fabrication at Fab Lab CEPT. Final project: PixelFace, a pixel-display mask.
Lumo / Elektra — CAN bus HAT
A Raspberry Pi HAT that pulls data off a vehicle's CAN bus. Built at TeroLabs, later used as the sensor layer for driver-behaviour analysis.
TurtleSense
An environmental sensor mesh for a wild tortoise preservation programme in Bhawal Reserve Forest.
Writing up
Bangla Word Clock
A clock that tells time in Bangla words. With Ghorar Dim Studios.
PixelFace
Fab Academy final project — a wearable pixel display.
Spinoscope / Praxinoscope / Zoetrope
Kinetic animation devices for Ghorar Dim Studios.
E-Braille
Tactile feedback Braille reader. Won the first Make-a-Thon in Bangladesh.
Argus Helmet
Smart helmet hackathon entry at Maker’s Lab, hosted by Toru.
CCSE Makerspace
Built and ran the makerspace inside the CCSE lab at IUB.
Raspberry Pi Hadoop Cluster
A four-Pi Hadoop cluster, built for the CCSE lab.