Mechatronics Engineer, R&D at Unifiller
I build new machines for food production, and more and more of them are robots.
My work starts as a blank SolidWorks file and ends on a factory floor, with mechanics, electronics and code all pulling their weight. Robots that handle real, messy, physical work are what I'm chasing next, starting with a master's in robotics at Johns Hopkins.
Miss once, never twice.
The rule I build by. Getting better at anything comes down to showing up for the reps: in the gym, at the bench, in front of a blank SolidWorks file. A missed day happens. Two in a row is how a habit quietly dies. So I give myself one slip, and I don't take a second.
Mechatronics Engineering Project Leader, R&D
Founder & CEO
Technical & Business Analyst
Mechanical Engineering Intern
Software Developer Intern
IT Intern
M.S., Robotics and Autonomous Systems Engineering
B.A.Sc., Mechatronic Systems Engineering
Poundo yam is a West African staple and my favourite food. It's also tedious to make: you stir yam flour into hot water and keep turning it hard with a wooden stick until it's smooth and stretchy. I'm building a robot arm that learns that turning motion from videos of people making it. Right now I'm simulating an SO-101 arm in MuJoCo with Jacobian IK, PD control and contact-force sensing.
Modeled the dynamics and designed the feedback controller in MATLAB and Simulink, using state-space analysis of controllability and observability to reach stable balance, then built a 3D Simscape simulation.
Capstone. Led controls: firmware driving two coin vibration motors in a foot wrap with PWM intensity, the protoboard circuit, and a desktop GUI for tracking sessions.
Designed and debugged a Bluetooth Low Energy control board, bringing it up with a SEGGER J-Link, Tag-Connect and Code Composer Studio.
PWM motor control with encoder feedback and embedded firmware on an 8051 platform.
A couple of times someone handed me a mic. Here's what I said.
On air
I joined the studio in Nigeria to talk through whether a public ledger can make public money easier to follow.
Watch on YouTube ↗For four days, Vancouver felt like a city that expected to win. That’s a feeling worth protecting.
A few thoughts after Web Summit on turning one good week into lasting momentum for local builders.
Read the op-ed ↗I'm always up for talking robotics, mechanical design, or hardware that has to work on a factory floor. Grab 30 minutes on Meet, weekday evenings or weekend days, Pacific time.