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amithnal

Open for work · Melbourne 2026
Mechatronics Engineer| · Colombo 🇱🇰

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👋 you can just call me Amith

Working across robotics, embedded systems, software, and visual production. Based in Colombo, moving to Melbourne in 2026.

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Amithnal
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Mechatronics engineering graduate working across robotics, automation, embedded systems, and creative media.

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5+
Years Building
12+
Projects Shipped
3
Industry Roles
2:1
Honours Degree
Division 01

Technical Work

Robots, vision systems and machines built for factories, labs and clients. Pick a project and play with it: every one below is live.

15+Engineering builds · more coming
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The SMARTNAV wheelchair
Robotics · ROS 2 · Sahasak Nimavum 2025

SMARTNAV wheelchair

A wheelchair you steer with your eyes or your face, or let it drive itself. EOG, an IR face tracker, depth and LiDAR all run as ROS 2 nodes on a Jetson Nano.

Inputs
EOG · IR face · depth · LiDAR
Compute
Jetson Nano

Open project

JETSON NANO · ROS 2 NODES EOG electrodeson a headband Amp + filtercustom PCB IR webcamworks in the dark Depth cameraKinect LiDARobstacles + map EOG classifierleft · right · up · down Face + eye trackerhead pose · gaze · blinks RTAB-Map SLAMmap + localise Navigationplan path, reroute round obstacles Arduinomotor control Drivemotors

More builds

Twelve more builds on the technical page, from SLAM and robot arms to PLCs, FPGAs and IoT, each with its own interactive breakdown.

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Machine Learning

Learning systems, on real hardware.

Master's in Robotics at Monash: computer vision, state estimation, learning-based navigation and reinforcement learning. My models run on robots, camera rigs and production lines.

ModelsYOLO11OCRSignal classifiersFace landmarks
FrameworksPyTorchscikit-learnONNX RuntimeOpenCV
DeployJetson NanoROS 2CPU inference
LLMs & agentsAnthropic & OpenAI APIsn8n
Open to technical and creative collaborations.

Always open to interesting projects.

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