Quinn Woolford

I like building things that move, sense, and think for themselves — then taking them apart to understand why they work.

I'm a mechanical engineering student at Duke University, currently working toward an aerospace specialization. Most of my time outside class goes into personal hardware projects: an autonomous mecanum-wheel robot with LiDAR mapping I wrote the SLAM stack for myself, a fully custom espresso machine build with its own PCB and firmware, and a tiger enrichment device my team designed under contract for the North Carolina Zoo.

I care about the whole stack of a build — the mechanism, the circuit, and the code that ties them together — and about shipping things that actually work in the physical world, not just in simulation.