MECHANICAL ENGINEERING — UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
Benjamin
Tran‑Pugh.
FOCUS : ROBOTICS / AEROSPACE / AUTOMOTIVE
TOOLS : SOLIDWORKS · PYTHON · C++ · MATLAB · ESP32
STATUS : OPEN TO CO-OP OPPORTUNITIES
## SELECTED WORK
07 PROJECTS
DOF:4 · IK:FULL · MCU:ESP32 Robot Arm 2.0
A 4-DOF robot arm with full inverse kinematics, browser-based control, and positional memory.
EOM:LAGRANGE · SOLVER:NUMERIC · REGIME:CHAOTIC Double Pendulum
Deriving the equations of motion from the Euler–Lagrange equation and simulating chaos in Python.
TYPE:PNEUMATIC · SPEC:10M · ACTUAL:60M+ Air Cannon
A pneumatic launcher built for a 10 m target — it hit 60+ m.
TYPE:HIGH-BYPASS · STAGES:LPC/HPC/HPT/LPT Turbofan Engine Model
A 3D-printed high-bypass turbofan replica with hundreds of parts across four compressor and turbine stages.
CONFIG:V6 · RENDER:INVENTOR STUDIO V6 Engine Model
A detailed V6 engine assembly modeled from real engineering drawings in Autodesk Inventor.
DOF:2 · MCU:ARDUINO · ITERATIONS:MANY Robot Arm 1.0
My first robot arm — built from scratch with no electronics experience and a lot of iteration.
COST:<$50 · MATERIAL:RECLAIMED WOOD Nordic Bench
A Nordic hamstring curl bench built from reclaimed wood for under $50.