vdar
built a low-cost 3d lidar scanner from scratch. custom mechanisms, circuit board, and firmware, along with a custom point cloud visualizer
Vuk Tacic
i'm a schulich leader & engineering student @ ubc
skier & mountain biker
i build (and break!) a lot of robots
vuktacic@student.ubc.ca- currently building a chess-playing robot
- showcased my lidar scanner to the head of NASA
- demoed my projects at opensauce
- built a wind tunnel in 48 hours
- won hack club nexus
- got into waterloo & got full-rides from ubc & uoft
- organized my city's largest talent show
- built a lidar scanner for $100
- built a 9ft trebuchet in 2 days
- led my frc team to #1 in bc
- lead organizer for bc's largest hs hackathon x3 (120ppl)
- represented 27,000 students on my city's student council
- undercity (hardware hackathon) finalist at github
- built a <20s cube solver for $100
- lead organizer for bc's largest hs hackathon x2 (80ppl)
- led my frc team to #2 in bc
- worked a winter at cypress mountain
- lead organizer for bc's largest hs hackathon x3 (120ppl)
- organizer for bc's largest hs hackathon (50ppl)
- discovered mountain biking
- interned at translink
- organizer for bc's largest hs hackathon (50ppl)
- did a lot of volunteering at my school
- started leading my frc team @ 14 w/ no experience
- got invited to tour yvr airport
- 3d printed a scale replica of vancouver
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scaled the largest high school developer community in bc 10x to 500 members and organized the largest high school hackathons in bc with a local university
creekside robotics
rebuilt my frc team from the ground up. scaled from 5 to 35 members, went from the bottom to #1 in the province, and worked with every part of the frc stack along the way
chessbot
currently building a chess-playing robot. under-board gantry system, compact 2-layer pcb, and aruco tag pipeline w/ opencv