hi, i'm charlie

I'm a freshman in high school in the suburbs of Boston, aspiring to be an electrical engineer. When I'm not in my bedroom lab coding and tinkering, you can find me running and enjoying nature.

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StratoSoar MK3

StratoSoar MK3

StratoSoar is an autonomous glider designed for high-altitude research. Released from a weather ball...

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Carbon Capture

Carbon Capture

This is a DIY carbon capture machine that removes CO2 from the atmosphere, along with a complete gui...

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Ham Club

Ham Club

This was a project with Hack Club that gave youth ham radios if they got licensed. I was the co-foun...

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Apex

Apex

Apex is a multi-month, near-space hackathon, where teenagers around the world collaborate to design ...

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Bioplastic

Bioplastic

I made my own seaweed-based bioplastic from scratch. While it may have not been a huge success, I di...

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StratoSoar MK2

StratoSoar MK2

StratoSoar is a high-altitude Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle (UAV), capable of flying to selected coord...

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LitteLoRa

LitteLoRa

LittleLoRa is GPS tracker intended to track gliders or high altitude balloons from long distances us...

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StratoSoar MK1

StratoSoar MK1

This was my first attempt of making a high-altitude UAV. It was a great learning experience and I le...

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OpenCV Resistor Finder

OpenCV Resistor Finder

This was an OpenCV resistor value finder that used algorithims to find the value of the resistor bei...

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Awards & Achievements

2025Popular Design Winner of PCBWay 7th Project Design Contest out of over 350+ submissions.
2024GitHub Universe - personally invited by Kyle Daigle, COO of GitHub, to come.
20244th out of 2000+ in the Hack Club Arcade Showcase.
2024Recipient of the Bagel Fund grant for my research in StratoSoar.
2024Presenter and author of a talk in the Northeast HamXposistion
2023First place winner of the 2023 Beantown Bash Hackathon.
2023First place winner of the 2023 Wayland Science Fair.
2023Presenter and author of two talks at the North East HamXposition.
2020-2023Owner of a successful woodworking business.
2022Ham Radio Extra Class Licensee.

Experiences

2024-Director for the Hack Club Amateur Radio Club.
2024-Co-founder and co-leader of a local Hack Club.
2024-Youth Ambassador, Collegiate Outreach, and Science Advisor the Sci-Tech Amateur Radio Society.
2024-Volunteer Leadership Staff at New England Sci-Tech.
2023-Member of The Youth Subcommittee of The North East HamXposition.
2022-Volunteer IT Director, circuit board designer, and consultant for New England Sci-Tech.

Skills

Programming/Software

  • C, C++, Rust, Python
  • React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, HTML
  • Figma
  • GitHub, Git

Electronics

  • KiCAD, printed circuit board design (PCB)
  • AVR, ARM
  • RF design, power design, 4-layer-board design
  • Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP32/ESP8266
  • Test equipment (oscilloscopes, spectrum analzyers, signal generators)

Engineering/Fabriaction

  • 3D printing, CNCs, laser cutter, handtools
  • Fusion 360, OnShape, Simscale

Other

  • Business management, finances
  • Public speaking
Arduino
Balloon
Cutdown mechanism
Sodium bicarbonate experiment
Fusion 360
Glider
Roof
Glider
Radio
Moisture swing
Old desk
Soda stream
Soft robotics
StratoSoar MK1
StratoSoar MK2
Wing
Arduino
Balloon
Cutdown mechanism
Sodium bicarbonate experiment
Fusion 360
Glider
Roof
Glider
Radio
Moisture swing
Old desk
Soda stream
Soft robotics
StratoSoar MK1
StratoSoar MK2
Wing