Hello, weary traveler!
Welcome to this little corner of the internet. Above are a few links you might find interesting, wander through them wherever your curiosity strikes.
This site is a map of the things I build and tinker with to quiet an endlessly curious mind. It ranges from MEMS devices to medical robotics to whatever random project has hijacked my attention lately.
Everything starts with a question that bothers me. Curiosity gets the better of me, so I test it, and it ends, hopefully, with the satisfaction that the engineering makes the world a little better along the way.
So take your time. Every link is a piece of that curiosity, just pointed in a different direction.
Sai Pranav Avva
DIY Engineer · Medical Robotics
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Education, experience, projects and publications, on two pages.
Mechatronics Engineer, Robotics Integration
Deploy Inc (YC 26)
Scaled warehouse robot cells to 3 systems; built custom grippers, 6 leader arms and enclosures for 12-hour continuous operation.
Graduate Researcher, Medical Device Design
IMERSE Lab, Johns Hopkins University
Tetherless magnetic soft-robotic gripper that passively grasps irregular tissue such as polyps.
M.S. Mechanical Engineering Education
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Electronics Consultant, Biomechanical Data Acquisition
Translead MedTech
EMG + IMU data acquisition for an assistive chair; showed 10% less user effort in sit-to-stand.
MEMS Engineer, Navigational Sensors
Indian Institute of Science & ISRO
Designed a MEMS accelerometer and disk resonator gyroscope; co-authored ICMNS 2024 paper.
IoT Engineer, Micro-Mobility Vehicle Electronics
Delta X Automotive
ESP32 control system and custom PCB for an e-scooter with 50 km range; co-inventor on a pending patent.
Mechatronics Engineer, Laboratory Automation
Anand Diagnostic Labs
Vision-guided 4-DOF test-tube sorting arm that raised lab throughput by 40%.
B.Tech Mechanical Engineering Education
PES University, Bangalore
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