About.

Hi, I'm Kaan Azaklioglu. I go to North Gwinnett High School and I'm part of the CHARGE North engineering program. I've also been on FRC Team 1771, our school's robotics team, for two years. This past year I was Programming Lead and Driver, which means I wrote most of our robot code and drove the robot at competitions. The role has taught me how to write code that has to work in front of a crowd, and how to make decisions in the moment when a match is on.

Outside of school and robotics, I take long walks with my pug, Toast. My AP classes include Human Geography, World History, Seminar, Pre-Calculus, Environmental Science, Computer Science Principles, and Computer Science A. I split my time between writing code (in C++, Java, and JavaScript) and building things in the makerspace (CAD, 3D printing, lasers, electronics). Both kinds of work show up in the projects on this site.

Looking back at these projects, I can see how much I've grown. Freshman year I was learning the basics. How to fit text on a CAD block, how to write a small game with an inventory and a damage system, how to get a mousetrap car past five meters. The Chess Set, Dream Home, and Lego Piece showed me that picking the right Onshape tool usually turns a hard problem into an easy one. The Chem Car taught me how to test small changes one at a time. The Concrete Cylinder taught me how to fix a recipe when it isn't working in front of me. Early in sophomore year, the 1771 Keychain pushed my 3D printing into a workflow I owned end to end, and the Pug Coaster opened up the laser cutter side. Then the Wall of Colleges sign hit, and that was the project that made me take time management seriously. Everything after that came out cleaner. Christmas Countdown and Wood Pen leaned on real planning. The Automoblox Accessory let me lead CAD and printing for a team toy, with a last-second save when the truck turned out too big for the printer bed and we had to split it into sections and connect them with tabs and magnets. The Cup Pong Accessory pulled it all together. Arduino code, a 3D-printed case, a clean OLED display, and Claude Code helping me iterate. Across all of these projects, the things I've gotten better at the most are sketching, time management, and the overall quality of my finished work. Down the road, when it's time for college, I'm hoping to study Computer Engineering. I want to keep mixing the coding side I already enjoy with the hardware side I keep getting pulled toward.