Portfolio

These are just a few of my notable projects.

Updated June 2023
Apple picking robots

At Ripe Robotics, the team and I have developed advanced autonomous harvesting systems. Our work is grounded in comprehensive, cross-disciplinary R+D and utilises cutting-edge technologies. We have a strong focus on transforming ideas into practical, revolutionary, and scalable solutions.

2021 - 2023
Industrial automation - various projects

Design, testing and commissioning of various industrial automation systems. Large and small projects for the logistics, food and beverage industries. Includes conveyors, lifts, and palletising systems with technologies such as PLCs (Siemens S7) and AutoCAD.

2021
Automated a small-batch coffee roaster

Developed a microcontroller based control system to automate a small-batch coffee roaster. In this position I coordinated many R&D sub-projects, collaborated with engineers from various backgrounds, produced technical documents, and worked with C++, Python, SolidWorks, pneumatics, motors and other automation technologies.

2020
Autonomous reversing of a tractor-implement vehicle for path tracking with robust control
Undergraduate Thesis

Designed various controllers and simulated them with a non-linear kinematic model in MATLAB. One of these controllers was a model predictive controller (MPC) that I built from the ground up to be optimised for this application. Other controllers include a sliding mode controller and a PD controller.

April 2021
Automating Schematic Generation

Skeletonator is drawing automation tool for my Controls Engineering team at Dematic. It utilises data exported from other departments to generate AutoCAD drawings. This allows an engineer to create the skeleton for layout drawings in minutes instead of the usual several hours. It's built completely in Python.

May 2021
3D Pinter
Hypercube Evolution

A CoreXY design focussed on minimising the inertia of the gantry and the print head. It's based on an open hardware design and uses a custom installation of open source firmware.

January 2021
Control System Optimiser in MATLAB

A genetic algorithm in MATLAB that generates and optimises placement of various devices across a conveyor network. This was designed to automate work for the Controls Engineering team at Dematic.

March 2021
Student Course Planner: Tri∆ngles

A course planner for trimesters at UNSW. Students can add their subjects and interactively drag and drop them across various terms and years. Courses are coloured in green if their term offerings and prerequisites are satisfied, otherwise red. The database automatically scapes data from the university website weekly. This app supersedes joebangles and allows users to create an account and sync their data across devices in real time.

Sign up April 2020
Sudoku Solver

I got stuck on a sudoku so I built a solver to finish it. Pretty sure it doesn't count as cheating 😉

Try me January 2019
Personal Website

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Home August 2018
joebangles

A timetable tool for UNSW to help organise trimesters. It searches and scapes the university website for degree and course details, asks students for subject selection, and generates a drag and drop timetable with prerequisite and term availability conditions.

Visit September 2018
UNSW Exchange

A prototype forum platform designed to increase communication between students and teachers for courses at UNSW.

Pitched to UNSW and the joined Students as Partners Developer team.

Log in June 2018

Plenty of more to come