Charles Baptista – Mechanical and Software Engineer

PROJECT PORTFOLIO

Smart Lamp

A robotic desk lamp I built for my capstone project. It features forward and inverse kinematics software based on the Denavit-Hartenberg convention.

NUTRONS Robotics Team

From 2011 through 2014 I participated in the FIRST robotics competition on team 125, the NUTRONS. Here you can see a portfolio of my work with them.

Tapestry Game Engine

The Tapestry game engine is a 2D side-scroller engine I've written in C++ using the SDL2 library. After more than a year of work it features many impressive systems.

FES Device For Trunk Balance

FES Balance Device to assist a stroke patient maintain trunk balance through sensor controlled electrical stimulation of muscles.

XBoard

Multi-threaded C++ software to bind Xbox gamepad controls to keyboard and mouse input.

ABOUT ME

I'm a Mechanical engineer in the greater Boston area. This website serves to document and demonstrate my robotics and programming projects.

I graduated with a BSME from Wentworth Institute Of Technology in 2018.

I've previously worked as an intern at YDreams Robotics and co-oped at SharkNinja & Cytonome.

I can be contacted at baptistac1@wit.edu

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Forward & Inverse Kinematics

By Charles Baptista September 6, 2018 September 6, 2018 Smart Lamp

Forward and inverse kinematics were the most important software systems of my Smart Lamp project. Control of the lamp arm has two layers; the lowest level control layer that manages the PWM interface with the servos, and the kinematics layer, which is responsible for calculating how the arm needs to move … Continue reading

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Red-Black Trees

By Charles Baptista December 22, 2016 December 31, 2016 Tapestry Engine

The latest system I wrote for my game engine project is my own Red-Black trees. This served both to create a powerful and useful new tool for my engine and as a great opportunity to learn about data structures. Red-Black trees are a form of balanced binary tree. A binary … Continue reading