A Project By Ahmed Badawy
A Project By Ahmed Badawy

Projects

3D Flight Telemetry
Mission Briefing

Aerial Drone

End-to-end aerial platform—from CAD frame iterations to control firmware—built for harsh weather mapping missions. The twin-tile layout contrasts runtime telemetry with briefing schematics.

  • Composite frame with modular arms stress-tested for 20% overload scenarios.
  • Flight stack integrates PX4 autopilot, lidar altimetry, and RTK corrections for sub-meter accuracy.
  • Scenario-driven demos built in Unity to let stakeholders rehearse inspections before field trials.
Subsurface Sweep
ROS 2 Mapping

Marine Vehicle — ROS 2 Jazzy

Autonomous hull-cleaning prototype combining machine vision with redundant inertial guidance. I led the sensor fusion pipeline and hardware bring-up across power-hungry payloads.

  • Designed brush tooling and sealed housings suitable for brackish water while staying under the thrust budget.
  • Architected ROS 2 nodes for SLAM, optical tracking, and mission control with configurable recovery states.
  • Captured validation runs, logged anomalies, and produced debriefs that informed iterative hull coverage gains.
PCB Layout
Signal Integrity

STM32F411 4-Layer Controller

Compact sensor hub that mates inertial, magnetic, and absolute encoders over USB-C. Layout emphasises signal integrity while meeting strict fabrication tolerances.

  • Length-matched high-speed pairs and reference planes tuned for EMI resilience near brushed motors.
  • Bench characterization suite automated via Python + PyVISA to profile drift and noise floors.
  • Released fabrication pack with assembly drawings, BOM, test plan, and firmware bring-up scripts.
Retro PWM Rig
Timing Notes

8051 Motor Speed Controller

Legacy 8051-based PWM driver retrofitted with closed-loop encoder feedback. Educational platform for debugging low-level timing constraints.

  • Dual 7-segment multiplexing renders telemetry without bloating instruction cycles.
  • Scope-led tuning uncovered timer overflow edge cases later mitigated in documentation.
  • Shared as a teaching kit with annotated schematics and a troubleshooting decision tree.
Automation Cell
Control Logic

Automated Widget Assembly

LabVIEW-driven cell orchestrating sensors, conveyors, and pneumatic tooling to demonstrate resilient small-batch automation.

  • Fail-safe routines re-queue workpieces during brownouts while preserving traceability.
  • Human-machine interface exposes diagnostics, manual overrides, and trend logging for audits.
  • Documentation packaged for plant engineers to adapt sequence logic to new SKUs.
Winter Retrofit
Field Testing

Custom Snow Plow Conversion

Ride-on mower transformation into a winter-ready plow. Fabrication sprint mixing TIG welding, drivetrain tuning, and ergonomic field testing.

  • Engineered hydraulic steering linkages to survive repetitive shocks without service downtime.
  • Optimized blade geometry with CFD approximations to reduce clogging and throw snow cleanly.
  • Produced step-by-step retrofit manual and maintenance schedule for owner adoption.
AI Canvas
Research Briefs

Diagram Weaver (AI)

Research companion that blends AI-assisted ideation with semantic search for design teams under deadline pressure.

  • Diagram Bot drafts multi-view schematics that engineers fine-tune instead of starting from scratch.
  • Genie assistant curates research snippets, citations, and data provenance in a single brief.
  • Responsive canvas supports live collaboration with latency-optimized WebSocket syncing.

Experience

Robotics R&D — MarineTech Labs2023–2025
Autonomous hull-cleaning robot — vision & guidance

Built a redundant visual line tracker; tuned thresholds and smoothing for reliable underwater detection; contributed to field trials and reporting.

Embedded Systems — Open Robotics Collective2022–2023
STM32 / Raspberry Pi — sensor benches

Test plans and wiring diagrams for encoders and optical sensors; firmware bring-up; latency profiling.

System Design — TechWorks Studio2021–2022
Sensor trade study & BOM optimization

Compared sonar, ultrasonic, and IMU options; selected vendors; reduced cost 18% while meeting range/noise targets.

Leadership — VEX / DJI Teams2019–2021
Team lead — multi-discipline projects

Coached mechanical, electrical, and operations streams for a 10-person team; organized demos and reviews.

Prototyping — Independent2018–2019
Service arm end-effector

Iterated a gripper; documented procedures and specs; created maintenance guidelines.

Resources

Curated tools and references I use regularly.

About

Ahmed Badawy

I build interactive robotics experiences and polished product websites. My work blends performance, accessibility, and delightful motion.

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Resume

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