About.
Hey, I'm Kaan. I'm a junior at North Gwinnett High School and I'm in the CHARGE North engineering program. I like building things that are half code and half hardware. Robot code, Arduino projects, CAD parts I print and cut myself.
Most of what I know came from robotics. I'm Programming Lead and Driver on FRC Team 1771, so I write our robot code and then I'm the one driving it at competitions. Code that has to work in front of a crowd is a lot different from code that just has to work on my laptop. There are 19 projects on this site and I built every one of them.
// Stuff I work with
- / Java
- / C++
- / Python
- / JavaScript
- / TypeScript
- / Arduino
- / Onshape
- / 3D printing
- / Laser cutting
- / Woodworking
- / Microcontrollers
- / OLED displays
- / Sensors
- / Wiring
// Some of my favorites
- Programming Lead and Driver, FRC Team 1771
I wrote most of our robot code in the 2026 season and drove at every competition. The team won the Peachtree District Championship and picked up the Autonomous Award at Gwinnett.
Season results › - Cup Pong Accessory
Arduino code, a 3D printed case, and an OLED display. I built the whole thing, and it's where the code side and the shop side finally clicked together.
Read the build › - HomeworkPlanner
A planner that splits a big assignment into daily targets so you know what to do today. It's live at survive.school, running on a server I set up myself.
Read the build › - Wall of Colleges Sign
A big build for the school that ran way longer than I planned. It's the one that taught me to plan before I start cutting.
Read the build ›
// How I got here
Freshman year I was figuring out 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 Chem Car taught me to change one thing at a time. The Concrete Cylinder taught me how to fix a mix while it's failing right in front of me.
Sophomore year the work got bigger. The Wall of Colleges sign took way longer than I thought it would, and after that I actually started planning builds before starting them. Everything since has come out cleaner. On the Automoblox Accessory I led CAD and printing, including a last second save when the truck came out too big for the printer bed and we cut it into sections and joined them with tabs and magnets. What I've gotten better at the most is sketching, time management, and how finished my work looks when it's done.
Outside of school I take long walks with my pug, Toast. This year I'm taking eight AP classes, including Calculus BC, Physics 1, Statistics, and Biology, plus my engineering class, and I just got into National Honor Society. Before this year I finished AP Computer Science A and Computer Science Principles, along with Engineering Concepts, Foundations of Engineering and Technology, and Scientific and Engineering Research. For college I want to study Computer Engineering so I can keep doing both the code side and the hardware side.
// What I'm looking for
I'm looking for an internship where I can work on real stuff and learn from people who do this for a living. Software, hardware, either one works. I'm still in high school, so I'm not going to walk in knowing everything, but I pick things up fast and I want to be useful. Email is the fastest way to get me.