Khushaan Virk

Electrical Engineering @ UBC

Vancouver, BC

Projects

Jun to Aug 2026 · Personal project

65% Mechanical Keyboard PCB

A wired 67-key 65% ANSI keyboard I designed from scratch in Altium. On-board STM32F072CBT6 with crystal-less USB, Kailh hot-swap sockets, one 1N4148W diode per key. It is my first board that got manufactured instead of stopping at Gerbers, and it is the one I type on.

AltiumSTM32USB-C4-LayerImpedance ControlBare-metal C

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Dead-reckoned path for Run A: five laps that rotate instead of overlapping, ending 5.14 m from the true start

Jul 2026 · Solo · MEMS sensor challenge

Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (Phone IMU)

A phone IMU can tell you how fast you are accelerating and how fast you are turning, but not where you are. Getting position out of it means integrating, and integrating noisy, biased sensor data compounds the error. That accumulating error is drift, the central unsolved problem in inertial navigation. I built this to measure it: walk a route with known ground truth using only the accelerometer and gyroscope, reconstruct the path in Python, and see how far off it lands.

PythonNumPySciPypandas

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Toaster oven mid-cycle with the heating elements glowing through the door

Feb 2026 · Team of 6

Reflow Oven Controller

An SMD reflow oven controller built on a CV-8052 microcontroller and a retrofitted toaster oven. The firmware is written entirely in 8051 assembly and runs a 6-state FSM (idle → preheat → soak → ramp → reflow → cool) that drives a solid-state relay to follow a user-configured solder profile.

CV-8052AssemblyOp-AmpADC

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Field-following robot platform on the figure-8 demonstration track

Apr 2026 · Team of 6

Field-Following Autonomous Robot

An autonomous robot that tracks a current-carrying guide wire using three LC-tank pickup inductors and an adaptive baseline detector, executes a pre-programmed sequence of turns at intersections, and falls back to manual control via a 38 kHz infrared remote. The robot ran through three different paths on a figure-8 demonstration track and stopped autonomously when an obstacle entered the VL53L0X Time-of-Flight sensor's view.

EFM8STM32CMOSFETs

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Dec 2025 · Solo

Battery Temperature Monitor PCB

A small battery-powered analog over-temperature alert circuit, built to get familiar with PCB design software. An NTC5D-9 thermistor sits in a resistor divider against a fixed reference; an LM393 comparator switches its open-collector output and lights a yellow 0805 SMD LED once the divider voltage crosses the reference.

KiCadPCB LayoutAnalog DesignSchematic Capture

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Nov 2025 · Solo

FPGA Tron Game

A real-time two-player Tron lightcycle game running on a DE10-Lite FPGA. Game logic and collision detection run in C on the Nios V (RISC-V) soft core; the display is driven over a memory-mapped VGA interface.

DE10-LiteNios VRISC-VC

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Alarm clock running on the N76E003 dev board with the LCD showing the current time

Nov 2025 · Solo

Embedded Alarm Clock

A real-time alarm clock built on the N76E003 (8051 family) entirely in assembly. The lab brief asked for a 12-hour AM/PM clock with settable time, a settable alarm, and an audible alarm tone, driven by interrupts so the LCD update and the time-keeping never block each other.

8051AssemblyTimer InterruptsLCD

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Phasor voltmeter prototype displaying R, T, and P readings on the LCD

Feb 2026 · Solo

AC Phasor Voltmeter

A microcontroller-based AC instrument that reads two analog channels (a reference and a test signal) and displays RMS magnitude, period, phase difference, frequency, and power factor in real time. Built on the EFM8LB12F64 in C using the on-chip 14-bit ADC; all signal processing happens on the MCU.

EFM8LB1CADCSignal Processing

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Capacitance meter breadboard reading 10 nF on the LCD

Oct to Nov 2025 · Solo

Capacitance Meters (Dual Platform)

Two capacitance meters built on different microcontroller families: an EFM8 and an STM32. The principle is the same on both: a 555-timer astable oscillates at a frequency that depends on the capacitor under test, the MCU counts pulses on a hardware timer input, and software reverses the 555 frequency formula to recover capacitance.

EFM8LB1STM32555 TimerC

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