Hi, I'm Ahmed.

Building robots, PCBs, and intelligent systems — from scratch, in my spare time, at university.

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SFU robotics competition ceremony

AI & Robotics

Autonomous systems and control

5+ Years

Engineering & project experience

Chess robot arm project

Coaching at robotics competition

Ages 7–13 · 3 podiums

Robocup Brazil · Korea · Canada

FAULT//FOUND

A PLC troubleshooting simulator. Diagnose broken ladder logic before your supervisor arrives.

STM32 PCB

Burnaby Now newspaper feature

FIRA 3rd place + city paper feature

Controls

Hugin twin-boom UAV rendered in the embedded Unreal (sim3d) viewer, flown by the MATLAB 6-DOF model.

Hugin three-view drawing generated from the AeroSandbox geometry model — top, front, and side views.

2026 One-person engineering team

Swallow dimensioned top view from the Edition 3 check sheet — pod fuselage, single tail beam through the V-tail, every dimension tagged and cross-checked.

Swallow flying a survey mission pattern in FlightGear, driven live by the Simulink 6-DOF model.

2026 One-person engineering team

Breadboard 7-segment display prototype — DIP switches, transistors, dev board harness.

Controller & 3×7-segment schematic — microcontroller, drivers, buzzer/motor, display wiring.

2023 Sole Developer

HMI/control panel mockup — dashboard with sensor indicators, start/stop, gauge, slider.

Conveyor sorting robot rig — bench-top assembly with belts, rollers, sensors, wiring.

2024 Control Systems Engineer

AI

FAULT // FOUND — PLC troubleshooting simulator promo hero with industrial control cabinets.

FAULT // FOUND — 3D factory floor simulation view showing Festo stations, concrete pillars, safety lines, and suspended utilities.

2026 Sole designer & developer

AI diagram workspace (mind-map UI) — overview with orange/blue nodes and AI Suggestions panel.

AI diagram workspace (focused “Deep Stall Phenomena”) — smaller mind-map with suggestions.

2025 Lead Developer

Dual-arm chess robot (CAD render) — two articulated arms over a chessboard.

Robot path (MATLAB) — 3D trajectory plot with via-points (X/Y/Z in mm).

2024 Mechatronics + CV Lead

ZIMA on a ship's hull — the rover's layout and treatment architecture, showing the independently steered drive modules it uses to hold position on curved steel.

A simulated cleaning pass along a ship's hull — the rover's tracked path drawn behind it as it works its way along the plating.

2025 Electrical & Software

Electronics

Robot controller — PCB layout/wiring (top/bottom traces, connectors, power section).

Robot controller — full schematic (MCU, power, motor drivers, I/O).

2024 Sole PCB Designer

KiCad 3D render of the Thermal Shield Rev C-Lite, top side — six DPAK load-port MOSFETs, blade-fuse bank, screw terminals, and the thermocouple corner.

The complete one-page A1 schematic from KiCad — power entry, six universal load ports, gate buffer, thermocouple, LaunchPad headers, and the 16-channel NTC mux, each in its own titled block.

2026 Sole PCB designer

The control and sensing sheet — the STM32G431 motor-control processor, the back-EMF sensing network that tells it where the rotor is, and the hardware over-current trip that shuts the bridge down without asking software.

The power bridge — three half-bridges built from twelve 60 V MOSFETs, two in parallel per switch, with the single four-terminal shunt that measures every amp the motor draws.

2026 Sole designer

The complete Kestrel schematic on one A1 sheet — power, flight-management unit, I/O, sensors, and the coprocessor, each in its own labelled zone.

The sensor zone — two independent inertial measurement units, a barometer and a magnetometer, plus the heater that holds the IMUs at temperature so they read the same cold or warm.

2026 Sole designer

Mechanical

Snow-plow fabrication jig — welded steel plates/rails on a workbench.

TIG welding close-up — arc and sparks during weld with gloves/clamps visible.

2022 Sole Builder

Ahmed Badawy

CV pipeline shipped to hull-cleaning robot
Redundant autonomous guidance system

10-person team led
Club-wide project management framework

Benchmarked 3 gripper mechanisms
Authored design specs + SOPs

2nd place in British Columbia
First-ever provincial qualification