Eight of the eleven projects in the catalogue. Show all projects.
2026 · Team member - RF integration; oversaw avionics integration
A fixed-wing electric ducted fan UAV built by two six-person teams. I oversaw the avionics integration around ArduPilot and ran the RF and antenna placement study in Ansys HFSS, alongside battery thermal-runaway containment, ESC thermal characterisation and the launcher's electrical control system.
April 2026 · Solo project
A custom three-board flight computer designed to run ArduPilot on a high-performance microcontroller, separating the vibration-sensitive sensor electronics from the main flight computer and power distribution hardware. The sensor board is the first completed hardware component; the flight-management and carrier boards are currently in the schematic development phase.
2026 · Solo project
A Python terminal application that automates flight hardware characterisation testing, using a Cube Orange+ flight controller as both a control interface and data-acquisition platform. Test procedures are defined in YAML, safety limits are enforced within the hardware communication layer, and a simulation mode with an automated pytest suite allows validation without physical hardware.
2025 · Avionics Team and System Lead
The avionics architecture for UC Aerospace's Huia, a multi-year project developing a high-performance fixed-wing UAV platform. It was built around a Cube Orange+ running ArduPilot, RTK-capable GNSS with a ground-based correction system, and long-range RF telemetry ground tested to approximately 20 km. The stack was integrated and validated on an electric proof-of-concept aircraft, with a commercial off-the-shelf airframe used as a separate autopilot test platform.
2023–2024 · Team member 2023; Avionics Team Lead 2024
A flight computer developed over two hardware revisions and two roles. As a team member in 2023 I led the sensor suite design and laid out the Sensor Board; as Avionics Team Lead in 2024 I directed the second revision, addressing the USB interface faults and thermal issues the first prototype exposed. The system provided reliable tracking and telemetry on lower-powered test flights up to 8,000 feet.
2024 · Avionics Team Lead
Five structured workshops taking UC Aerospace members from datasheets and component packages through flight computer architecture, sensor selection, schematic practice and PCB layout. Participants who completed all sessions assembled and tested their own SMD-based flight computers.
Earliest UC Aerospace rocketry work · UC Aerospace member
My first real introduction to rocket design, flight dynamics and avionics, working with actual rockets rather than the theory of them. Design covered aerodynamics, stability and propulsion; the avionics side was an introduction to integrating sensors and flight computers. The grounding it gave me is what the more advanced rocketry and embedded systems projects here were built on.
Following Level 1 · UC Aerospace member
Higher-performance rockets designed and built from scratch, which brought in flight simulation, dual-stage recovery and composite construction. I laid up fibreglass and carbon-fibre airframes, working through material selection, layering technique and structural assembly, and integrated avionics and dual-stage parachute recovery into the rockets.