Pranav Mehta

About

Hello! I’m Pranav, an aspiring embedded engineer who grew up fascinated with construction sites, airplanes, computers, and the entire idea of inventing. From a young age, I have wanted to acquire knowledge and apply that knowledge to make this planet a cleaner, greener, and happier place.

I am committed to finding and implementing innovative ways to combat pollution and waste through the use of science and technology. I believe that through effective research and sustainable practices, there are real possibilities to discover. I am eager to explore research or industry opportunities where I can apply my knowledge of science, computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, networking, and cloud technologies.

Projects

Configurable LoRa Mesh

Using the open-source Radiohead library, I built a configurable LoRa mesh network for research & industry use cases using low-cost Adafruit Feather boards.

Triton Robocup

You Lost It Project

Developed a real-time, power-efficient Bluetooth tracker device using an STM32 that sends BLE packets to nearby phones. Designed bare-metal drivers in C for the GPIO and Timer peripherals, communicating with the accelerometer sensor using I2C, and communicating with the Bluetooth Low Energy chip using SPI.

Botion Cube

I developed the speech-to-text subsystem of the Botion cube, which samples audio data using the microphone sensor over I2S, records the sound file, then passes it to a speech-to-text ML API to get back text. This subsystem allows users to create tasks on the cube using their voice. The video file (play button) below demonstrates this system.

Nautilus AUV

Leashable Boats Mod

6,000+ downloads

Leashable Boats is a Minecraft mod that I developed during summer 2022, eager to test out the new concepts that I had learned from AP Computer Science A in high school. It turned out to be a fun project for me to make as I was able to successfully integrate specific features that I had wanted into the game, and I was also able to share my work with the community, with approximately 6,000 downloads for my mod now.

Power Ahn Project

I built a productivity tool that helps its users keep track of the tasks that they needed to do next, but goes a step further by opening the application that they need to perform their task. This is especially handy if the user prefers to keep their desktop clean and does not have many shortcuts, as it saves them the time of searching for the app on their computer and then opening it. Insert a task name, start time, end time, and system application name. When the start time arrives, the application will automatically open the provided system application (such as Visual Studio Code or Word) and set a timer to start counting down on the UI until the end time.