Hi there, I’m Ritesh 👋
I’m a Mechatronics & Robotics Engineering student based in Michigan who loves solving hard problems at the intersection of microcontrollers, physical hardware, embedded AI, and custom car electronics.
- 🤖 Obsessing over embedded control systems, custom PCB design & ROS 2
- 🔬 Undergraduate Research Assistant in the ELISA Lab (Oakland University) working on AI-assisted control & autonomous vehicle dynamics under Dr. Jun Chen
- 🛠️ Shipping hardware & developer tooling under the open-source brand Pyintel
🧠 Under the Hood: My Second Brain
I’ve been using Obsidian as my second brain to capture concepts in mechatronics, physics, software, and wealth strategy. This digital garden is a public window into my raw notes, research ideas, and hardware schematics!
A Note on My Notes:
These notes are written primarily for myself as I am learning. They grow and evolve over time. My goal in sharing them is to build permissionless leverage, showcase what I’m working on, and encourage serendipitous encounters with other builders.
🗺️ Explore My World
- 🧠 The Mechatronics Wealth Manifesto — My core philosophy on stealth wealth, permissionless leverage, and cost-agnostic time-first decision making.
- 🎓 Academic & Research Strategy — Fast-track engineering, ELISA Lab AI control focus, and publication strategy.
- 🎒 How to Hack College Credit — APs, CLEPs, and optimizing degree catalogs like an algorithm.
- 🎛️ Athera Motion Core — Custom RP2350 dev board with CAN-FD, PIO quadrature encoders, & EEPROM auto-discovery.
- ✍️ Read My Blog — Late-night physics shower thoughts, college rants, & glorious hardware disasters.
📜 In The Past / Track Record
- 🔬 ELISA Lab (Oakland University): Joined as undergraduate Research Assistant in Summer 2026 working on Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Deep RL for autonomous systems.
- 🛠️ Pyintel Ecosystem: Founded Pyintel to build open-source cognitive tools, embedded firmware (
Apex Arc), and custom control hardware (Athera Controls). - ⚡ agent-tools: Shipped a 124MB single-binary CLI & MCP server bundling all personal productivity tools into a single executable.
- 🚗 Automotive Engineering: Obsessed with custom car electronics, telemetry modules, and retrofitted EV powertrain controllers.
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