Mahir Patel

UIUC electrical engineering student

Mahir Patel

I design KiCad boards and get them ready to order, verify logic in SystemVerilog, and ship AI software you can try today.

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Looking for a summer 2027 electrical engineering internship.

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CH1 / CH2 · illustration, not a bench capture

Projects

Each one lists how far it really got. Hardware that has not been built says so.

TP1

Jarvis HUD glasses

Planned. No hardware yet.

Problem
Wearable AI glasses are heavy, short-lived and reactive. Mine is meant to be light enough to wear all day and proactive.
Built
Picked the parts for version 1 and wrote a verified bench checklist for the first session: a Seeed XIAO nRF52840 Sense driving an Adafruit 1.12 in 128x128 mono OLED. The agent side runs through Base Camp.
Tech
  • XIAO nRF52840 Sense
  • SH1107 OLED
  • PlatformIO
  • I2C
Link
Build log
TP2

Before You Fab

Live. Free checker.

Problem
A KiCad board that looks done can still be held up at the fab for missing files or rule violations.
Built
A fab-readiness checker. It reads your schematic, board and JLCPCB BOM and CPL files in the browser, uploads nothing, and lists what will hold up the order. Also ships as a command line tool and a GitHub Action, MIT licensed.
Tech
  • KiCad
  • JavaScript
  • Node
  • JLCPCB
Link
Run the free checker
TP3

RingLatch

Live. Demo line and site. Co-founder.

Problem
Trades shops lose jobs when nobody answers the phone.
Built
An AI phone receptionist for trades shops. I am a co-founder. The code covers the voice demo, the backend and the owner dashboard. Job booking and follow-up texts are not live yet.
Tech
  • Retell
  • Supabase
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Stripe
Link
ringlatch.com
TP4

Base Camp agent OS

In use. Runs my own work daily.

Problem
One person cannot research, draft and track everything a student company needs.
Built
An agent company I run my own work through. Scheduled agents research, draft and keep an Obsidian vault and task board current. Anything that sends, posts or spends money waits for my approval. Builder agents like the one that made this page open pull requests that an independent reviewer checks.
Tech
  • Agents
  • Cloudflare D1
  • Supabase
  • GitHub Actions
  • Obsidian
  • TypeScript
  • Python
Link
No public link yet
TP5

Upwork hardware work

Paid contracts, completed and active.

Problem
Small hardware teams need a board designed or reviewed and made ready to order.
Built
Paid KiCad and circuit work: a USB-C protection front end (contract ended with feedback and a bonus), a reed-switch battery power switch board (both milestones approved), a PWM controller board and a fuel pump primer timer circuit.
Tech
  • KiCad
  • Power
  • Protection
  • JLCPCB files
Link
Hire me at mahirbuilds.com
TP6

Data-logger PCB

Built. Brought up on the bench, three revisions.

Problem
A logger that keeps working with no computer attached.
Built
A microcontroller board with an I2C EEPROM for storage and a real-time clock that timestamps every sample. Schematic, layout, fab and bring-up in KiCad.
Tech
  • KiCad
  • Microcontroller
  • EEPROM
  • RTC
Link
No public link yet
TP7

Iron Man helmet voice assistant

Built. Team project, ASME @ Illinois.

Problem
A helmet faceplate that opens when you ask it to.
Built
The voice assistant inside the ASME @ Illinois Iron Man helmet. It runs on a Raspberry Pi 5, listens for commands and drives the servos that open the faceplate.
Tech
  • Raspberry Pi 5
  • Voice control
  • Servos
Link
No public link yet
TP8

32-bit ALU

Simulated. Verified in Vivado.

Problem
Digital logic you have not simulated is logic you have not checked.
Built
A 32-bit arithmetic logic unit written in SystemVerilog and verified in Vivado simulation.
Tech
  • SystemVerilog
  • Vivado
  • RTL
Link
No public link yet

Skills and tools

Only things that appear in the work above.

Hardware

  • KiCad schematic and layout
  • JLCPCB fab and assembly files
  • Board bring-up on the bench
  • Power and USB-C protection circuits
  • I2C peripherals: EEPROM, RTC, OLED

Digital and embedded

  • SystemVerilog and Vivado simulation
  • Raspberry Pi 5, servos
  • Seeed XIAO nRF52840, Adafruit libraries
  • PlatformIO

Software

  • JavaScript and Node
  • TypeScript
  • Python

Cloud and AI

  • Supabase, Cloudflare Workers and D1
  • Retell voice agents
  • Stripe
  • GitHub Actions, Playwright tests
  • Multi-agent workflows

Resume

A summary of what is on this page. Full resume: Mahir_Patel_Resume.pdf.

Mahir Patel

UIUC electrical engineering student. Looking for a summer 2027 electrical engineering internship.

Selected work

  • Before You Fab: browser-based KiCad fab-readiness checker, with a command line tool and GitHub Action.
  • RingLatch: co-founder of an AI phone receptionist for trades shops.
  • Paid Upwork hardware contracts: USB-C protection, reed-switch battery power switch, PWM controller, fuel pump primer timer.
  • Data-logger PCB: KiCad, three revisions, brought up on the bench.
  • Iron Man helmet voice assistant, ASME @ Illinois: Raspberry Pi 5 and servos.
  • 32-bit ALU in SystemVerilog, verified in Vivado.
  • Base Camp: agent company that runs my own work.

Credentials

  • FCC amateur radio license
  • NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Student Ambassador
LinkedIn

Contact and links

Hardware work and board reviews go through mahirbuilds.com. Email is fastest for everything else.