Projects

2026

Jun 2

Small Tools for AI Development

A collection of little tools I built to make working with AI agents cheaper, faster, and more legible.

2025

Oct 21

Diving Helmet Design

Building the perfect diving helmet for underwater exploration.

2023

Jul 30

HierarchicalPCB KiCAD Plugin

Bringing abstraction to PCB design.

2022

Jan 26

Hough and Cover

Better 2d Bin Packing with Convolutions

2021

Jan 1

Taig CNC Mill conversion

CNC Machining at Home

2020

Feb 3

Laser-Cut Filament Box

Filament storage with humidity monitoring.

2019

May 7

SSHazam

Speculatively opening SSH sessions to save milliseconds.

Mar 21

Oboe Reed Box

Laser-cut and printed box.

Feb 1

Cold-Brew Coffee Tower

Counter-top coffee brewing, in style.

2018

Aug 11

Visigoth

CMU's Visitors-day scheduling system

Mar 11

Drones

Quadcopters on four scales.

2017

Nov 23

LocusLab GPU Cluster

Designing, Building, and Running a GPU Cluster

Jul 20

Deep Learning 2.0 Workshop

Teaching students and professionals about Generative Adversarial Networks

Jun 25

Boop

Scriptable remote notifications

2016

Apr 18

Navelgazer

Linter for first-order logic.

Mar 1

Abacus Machine Simulator

A simple abacus machine language, for teaching.

Feb 17

Turing Machine Simulator

Yet another Turing machine engine, for educational use.

2015

Dec 4

Wireless Cooking Thermometer

A cooking thermometer with hands-free control, temperature alarms, and more.

Aug 18

Hexapod Inverse Kinematics

A full inverse kinematics implementation for a hexapod.

Jan 20

WeScheme Site Administration

Overseeing a popular online programming environment.

2014

Oct 31

Printed Snoots

3D printed accessories for photography.

Jul 29

Rewriting HT1632C for Arduino

Improving memory efficiency and code readability.

Jul 14

The new GauravManek.com

Web design after three years.

May 6

Cutlass

An IDE for Pyret, a teaching language.

2013

Dec 31

Old Projects

2011

Jun 26

Persistence of Vision prototype

An attempt to bring colour to persistence-of-vision devices.

Apr 26

HT1632C for Arduino

Rendering content to the popular Holtek HT1632C LED driver.

Mar 28

iPad- and Kinect-Controlled Car

Novel ways to control things.