Demine Robotics provides tools to make landmine clearance faster and safer. As co-founder and CTO, I led a small, scrappy team in Cambodia through the prototyping, testing, and launch of two products: a remote control bomb excavation implement, and a remote control retrofit for the construction equipment the attachment is used on.

There are estimated to be more than 40 million landmines and 100 million UXO still in the ground today. Most mines and UXO that are found are excavated by a deminer by hand -- using a trowel and a prod, and other similar tools.

The Jevit Mine Spade enables fast, safe excavation of mines using remotely operated equipment that keeps the deminer out of harms way.

In 2021 we completed field trails and received accreditation in Cambodia for our novel approach to removing mines from the ground. We launched clearance operations that have since freed 100,000 m2 (25 acres) of land previously containing mines and UXO.

Creating the Jevit Mine Spade and Jevit Camera Kit required working across domains including embedded systems, electric and hydraulic actuators, video streaming, android development, wireless comms, and UI/UX design.

Our tools are in operation in Ratanakiri, Cambodia - a large province bordering Vietnam that is heavily contaminated from the Vietnam war.

Mines and UXO are often found near buildings, roads, or trees and need to be relocated for demolition. Our tools allow the operator to remotely excavate and move the explosive.

#Python #OpenCV #ComputerVision #RaspberryPi #Hardware

Handle was built as a design project along with some of my awesome classmates last term. It's a game where you stickhanle a ball within the square on the floor, keeping it away from the moving laser.

There were two portions to the vision processing. The first is object tracking, or in this case "big orange ball tracking", demonstrated alongside my corny smile:

The second part is applying a transformation to the camera input to correct the distortion that results from an skewed angle. The camera doesn't see this square as a square:

Fear not! Drop a couple of dots on those corner coordinates and let a little bit of linear algebra do the rest!

And just like that, we're left with a true square. This now directly maps to the virtual playing area, where the real-world laser obstacle moving along the floor is mirrored by a moving circle on the screen.

The software is watching for collisions and controlling the pattern of the obstacle. The longer you survive, the higher your score!

#Marketing #SocialMedia #WebDesign #HTML #CSS

Digital Sabbath is a campaign to encourage everyone to take a much needed break from technology - and in turn to fight digital addiction. This was an idea that stemmed from a FaithTech meetup, and is now part of FaithTech Labs.

Check it out at digitalsabbath.io!

Tidbits is a tool that helps you build better relationships. It does this by helping you remember the names of new friends and keep better tabs on your old friends.

This was a project that was fun to make, but that I've since abandoned.

#Photoshop #Rails #ReactNative #Bootstrap #Android #iOS

LiveLocal helps connect travellers with the concierge best suited to their travel destination, schedule, and preferences.

I completed these designs as part of a freelance project for an early stage startup called LiveLocal that has since ceased operation.

#Photoshop

Smart Greeting is an experiment in using technology to improve in-person interactions with TD customers in a branch. It uses Bluetooth beacons, the customer's phone, and a screen to notify the teller of an approaching customer's name. This technology was shown to customers in a "Comfort Test" to determine if they were open to this potentially surprising use of the devices they carry.

Smart Greeting was built during my time at TD Lab.

#Andriod #BluetoothGeolocation #AngularJS #HTML #CSS #Bootstrap #Node #MongoDB

Smart display is an experiment in how to effectively provide dynamic and interactive content that is personalized for TD customers. It uses Bluetooth beacons and the customers' phones to determine what content should be displayed on the screen at a given time to best appeal to the customer. If they are interested in the content, they can tap the NFC enabled screen with their phone to 'capture' an interactive version of the ad.

Smart Greeting was built during my time at TD Lab.

#Andriod #BluetoothGeolocation #NFC #AngularJS #HTML #CSS #Bootstrap #Node #MongoDB

HappyHeart, an anxiety attack tracking app was built at Hack@Brown 2016 for iOS and web, utilizing the heartrate sensor on the Microsoft Band. Our team placed in the top 10, and were awarded Best Data Visualization.

#HTML #CSS #Bootstrap #Node #MicrosoftAzure

The connected household is the way of the fast-approaching future - but how do you integrate new bluetooth/wifi enabled 'smart' devices and older tech like that tube TV you have sitting in the basement?

Enter MyoMote - our hack that utilizes the Myo and infra-red technology to bridge the gap of modern and not-so-modern household tech for the specific purpose of gesture control.

Our hacked proof of concept utilizes a Myo, an android phone, and an arduino. The Arduino: The hardware side of things include a bluetooth enabled arduino with an IR blaster and an IR receiver. The receiver allows the user to record the IR signal that is sent from a current remote. This signal is assigned to a gesture and repeated via the blaster when the gesture is performed.

#Arduino #IR #Bluetooth

As the Director of Technology for CUTC 2016, my role was to put technology to work for conference planning, marketing, ticketing, and execution. A big piece of this was the CUTC: Imagine Website.

#HTML #CSS #Bootstrap

I love building robots! Sometimes professionally, but mostly for fun. Take a look at some of my past creations:

Hundreds of hours and litres of sweat went into these bots. I love talking about the 'why' behind the designs and the 'how' behind the build, so feel free to ask!

#SolidWorks #Manufacturing #RobotC #Java #Pneumatics #Power Electronics #Control Systems

Try it out! Scan a real roll's QR code in the photo above!☝️🔎✨

The textile industry struggles with traceability. When a defect is found in finished fabric, it's often impossible to trace it back to its source — which machine, which operator, which batch of raw material. Without this visibility, factories can't fix root causes, and waste continues to pile up.

Loop solves this by tracking every meter of fabric through the production process. I led the full-stack development of this product at Smartex, including an in-factory "Loop Station" and a web dashboard for production managers.

The Loop Station runs on Android tablets using React Native, generating roll IDs and associating the physical roll with digital production data. The web app, built with Angular and NestJS, gives factory managers real-time visibility into their production flow.

Loop is live in factories across three countries, tracing millions of meters of fabric every year.

#ReactNative #Android #Angular #NestJS #Postgres

As much as 25% of textile production ends up as waste and pollution before ever reaching consumers. Smartex is tackling this with AI-powered fabric inspection systems that catch defects in real time. But inspection data alone isn't enough; factories need that data flowing into their existing systems to take action.

I led the development of Smartex's ERP integration product, an integration layer that connects our inspection systems to the factory's enterprise software. This means defect data, production metrics, and quality reports automatically sync with whatever ERP the factory is already using.

The challenge was building something flexible and simple enough to reliably integrate with a wide range of factory workflows and legacy enterprise systems. This is live in over 20 factories, integrated with 11 different ERP platforms, and the product has significantly improved how clients use and trust the Smartex platform.

#Python #Flask #Docker #AWS #TypeScript #NestJS #Postgres

Close friendships are fading. Despite being more "connected" than ever, people default to low-effort texting instead of real conversation. Phone calls feel intrusive, hard to schedule, and easy to avoid. Loneliness is rising.

Presh flips this by making voice calls spontaneous and low-pressure. Calls are capped at 10 minutes and require no scheduling — just a quick invitation. There's no obligation to answer, no guilt for missing one, and a limit of one call per person per day. It's designed to make frequent short conversations the norm, not the exception.

I'm helping the founders take Presh from a vibe-coded v1.0 to a production-ready app. Check it out at presh.app.

#ReactNative #Expo #Android #E2ETesting

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