Personal website

I am an aerospace student at IITM who likes building rockets and documenting the road to the next one.

This is where I keep project logs, lessons from failed tests, tiny campus updates, and notes on whatever I am trying to engineer next.

Say hello Currently building something cool

Current buildboard

  • 03 rocket builds and iterations
  • 12+ late-night design reviews with friends
  • 1 new project that still sounds slightly unreasonable

About

I study Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras and spend a lot of my time around simulations, test setups, notebooks full of rough sketches, and conversations that start with "what if this actually flies?"

I like projects that sit between engineering discipline and student curiosity. Rockets are a big part of that story, but so are team builds, little web tools, field notes from experiments, and the ongoing search for the next problem worth losing sleep over.

What lives here

  • Deep dives into rocket builds, design choices, and test-day surprises.
  • Project pages for side quests, prototypes, and half-finished ideas worth revisiting.
  • A running feed of thoughts, tweet-sized updates, and college-life notes from campus.

What I am building toward

Better vehicles, cleaner data, stronger intuition, and one standout project that makes people stop and ask how a student team pulled it off.

Journey so far

First phase

Started building rockets as a student project obsession

Learned the fun version of aerospace: design, iterate, test, fail, improve, repeat.

Second phase

Moved from "this might work" to structured engineering

More focus on systems thinking, documentation, material choices, and designing for reality instead of optimism.

Now

Working on the next cool thing

A bigger build is taking shape, and this site is where I will share progress, sketches, and the occasional dramatic update.

Projects

A few featured builds. These sections are set up so new project pages, images, stats, and writeups can be added easily as work evolves.

Rocket Project 01

2024

Student sounding rocket

A hands-on build focused on structure, recovery, and the kind of test campaign that teaches you why checklists exist.

  • Airframe
  • Recovery
  • Ground tests

Rocket Project 02

2025

Flight systems and iteration log

A more mature build where the focus shifted from "make it fly" to reliability, instrumentation, and cleaner iteration.

  • Avionics
  • Telemetry
  • Integration

Current Build

In progress

Something cool is under construction

This slot is for the project that is still confidential, half-defined, or changing every week because the ambition keeps growing.

  • Concept development
  • Design reviews
  • Future launch

Campus Side Quest

Ongoing

Small tools for student teams

Scripts, dashboards, and little utilities that make student engineering projects easier to run and easier to explain.

  • Web tools
  • Documentation
  • Team ops

Writing

Project log

What a failed test actually gives you

A piece on how broken parts, noisy data, and awkward field days still move a project forward faster than perfect slides ever can.

Campus note

Building hardware while surviving coursework

Thoughts on time, teams, labs, classes, and why student engineering is mostly a scheduling problem disguised as a technical one.

Idea draft

The next ambitious thing

A placeholder for long-form notes on the project that currently exists in a mix of sketches, conversations, and unreasonable optimism.

Tweets

Short-form updates, build thoughts, launch-day snippets, and the occasional campus observation. This section is designed like a live feed so it can later be connected to real posts.

@yourhandle

Spent the evening arguing with a CAD model, which is still a better outcome than arguing with the wind on launch day.

@yourhandle

One of the nicest parts of student rocketry is that every serious meeting contains at least one wildly over-ambitious idea.

@yourhandle

Current status: aerospace coursework by day, project sketches by night, and a suspicious amount of confidence about the next build.

Contact

Reach out

If you want to talk about rockets, student teams, aerospace ideas, or a strange project that might actually work, send a note.

ae23b064@smail.iitm.ac.in

Good reasons to email

  • Collaborations with student builders and technical teams.
  • Interesting aerospace side projects or research conversations.
  • Any cool idea that deserves one careful whiteboard session.