Hello, I am Kinshuk.
About Me.
I am an engineering student, a maker, a tech enthusiast, and a music connoisseur.
My passion for creation drives me, whether it is building a music player to appreciate the art or making an ergo-controller to prevent musculoskeletal disorders. Unrelenting in my pursuit, willing to learn anything whilst staying steadfast to my standards.
Curious about my process? You can find source files and project documentation through the GitHub and Instructables icons throughout my work. If you’d like to know more or see additional materials, feel free to get in touch. I’m always happy to discuss my projects and share what I can.
MY WORKS
UMS
UMS (Unified Measurement System) is a multimodal quasi-synchronous data acquisition platform, assisting in deferred analysis and reverse engineering. It is capable of providing insights otherwise impossible to record or preserve with traditional methods of doing the same.
UMS has Scene RGB, Depth ToF, and Thermal IR modalities with support for any additional modality and supports both still and video capture.
It is completely open source and under an MIT License. It uses a Raspberry Pi 5 and a completely custom stack of control logic and frontend in a UmsDaemon service. It also has custom depth and thermal video pipelines stress tested for long continuous capture.
UMS was tested as a platform for a research paper, accepted, to be published.
UMS v1.0.0 RGB, ToF, Thermal
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FinePad
FinePad is a Precision macropad designed to enable fine control of computer pointers. It is designed to solve the age old problem of faffing around with a mouse or trackpad to end up at a precise point on a timeline or spectrum but missing at the last minute because of a jerky click release from your muscles.
FinePad decouples the pointing from the clicking and provides to high resolution encoders to get the cursor at the target point with the highest precision.
It is completely open source and under an MIT License. It is based on a RP2040 as the logic board alongside a fully custom daughterboard, running custom firmware.
FinePad has fully custom key remapping functionality as well as completely custom key selection (subject to footprint match).
FinePad v1.1.0
PiPod
PiPod is a Wearable music player designed to put album art front and centre. I feel that in the modern music streaming era, album art is under appreciated as it is concealed away in a data centre and displayed on the screen for a few seconds before being minimised. I have long felt that should not be.
PiPod supports high-fidelity headphones and In-Ear Monitors for uncompromised sound fidelity. It features wireless file transfer for convenience.
It is completely open source and under a Creative Commons License. It uses a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as the logic board, hence the name PiPod.
PiPod was featured as the editor's choice at Instructables.
PiPod also won the fourth prize in the "Make it Wearable" contest on Instructables in June 2025.
PiPod on it's boot screen.
Ergo-Warrior
ErgoWarrior is the world's first open-source contoured fighting game controller. It is built specifically for people who currently have musculoskeletal disorders or are prone to them. Disorders such as hyper-mobility, hyper-extension or even Carpal Tunnel Syndrome can be mitigated with ErgoWarrior.
ErgoWarrior also offers superior comfort and versatility in hand positioning while being a true leverless controller, allowing one-finger throws, quick access to all movesets for quick buffering and precision strings like hit-confirms.
ErgoWarrior is based on the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller with a custom daughter board and employs a dedicated fork of the GP2040-CE.
ErgoWarrior recieved a v1.1.0 update with a topology optimized handle as the original design broke and that was not good enough.
Right-hand profile of the ErgoWarrior.
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight For The Future
The game that inspired me to build ErgoWarrior.
PiDigitiser
PiDigitiser is a low-cost, open-source film scanner built for enthusiasts and small businesses who want to avoid the high price of dedicated backlit film scanners or the expensive cameras needed for area scanning.
The archival properties of film far surpass that of digital media, which can be subject to silicon degradation.
PiDigitiser uses a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in tandem with a Raspberry Pi HQ camera, providing scans up to 24 megapixels, making film digitisation affordable.
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PiDigitiser was featured as the editor's choice at Instructables.
PiDigitiser is published in FOTO HITS, a popular photo magazine from Germany.
Captured in the 1960s, assumed lost forever due to ruined film, digitised on PiDigitiser with smart reconstruction.
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Academia
2022 - Present
Mechanical Engineering with a Minor Course in Computer Science and Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology
The extent of my formal academia ranges from Robotics and Statistical Quality Control to Design and Analysis of Algorithms. I have been studying a diverse curriculum with multiple disciplines. Yet my knowledge and skills extend beyond formal academia, driven by a passion for independent exploration and hands-on learning.
Accolades
2026
Got accepted by iMTD2026, a conference in NIT Jalandhar for a paper on UMS-based Scene capture workflows.
2026
Got published by FOTO HITS, a popular German photography magazine.
2025
Won the Judge's Prize in the make it wearable Competition on Instructables.
2019
Presented a conference paper on Mathematical Knots at GGM-2019.
2018
Presented a conference paper on Mathematics in Football at GGM-2018.