Hey! I'm Jasper, thanks for stopping by. I'm an engineer based in Sydney and I like working on a pretty wide range of things. If I keep this updated, you'll see a bit of that here.
I spent the last few years studying and building solar powered cars to race from Darwin to Adelaide. I worked on two of them, starting with aerodynamics and then branching out into everything from composites to mechanical design. The second car, SC4 (or Monty), should be on the right or just below this. Feel free to give it a spin.
There's plenty more to look around, so click through a project, whether it's machine learning for bushfire detection or a responsive MP3 player, or have a look at my photography. Hopefully something here takes your fancy. These days I'm an Engineering Specialist at AirTrunk here in Sydney. More about me or say hello.
Monty, SC4. Drag to turn it.
Monty's body: a catamaran picked from four concepts, shaped over about 1,000 hours of CFD and 64 CAD versions, then laid up in carbon by hand. CdA down about 20% on the previous car.
↳ CdA down about 20% vs the previous car
A pocket music player with a haptic dial that changes its feel on every screen. Designed, built and given as a gift in 23 days.
↳ Built in 23 days
For my Honours Project, two unsupervised GRU-based VAEs on eCO₂ and TVOC. A compact GGM-VAE and a Hybrid STFT-CNN-GRU-VAE both detect all ignition events in about four minutes on average; the GGM-VAE wins on F1 and false positives and is deployed on an STM32WLE5 LoRa node.
↳ All eight test ignitions caught, first detection about 4 minutes
Carbon bulkheads and interfaces that tie every subsystem into the shell with clean load paths and service access.
↳ 20 g battery restraint passed with straps, not frames
A four bar canopy hinge that clears the shell and gets every driver out within the 15 second egress rule.
↳ All drivers out inside the 15 second rule
Hinges and carbon stays that tilt the solar array to 60° for morning and evening charging at roadside stops.
↳ 60° tilt for morning and evening charging
Vacuum formed clear covers for brake, indicator and running lights, sized hard against the rules to stay small, light and easy to blend into the aerobody.
↳ Clear PETG replaced the old opaque fibreglass
Or get in touch about roles, projects or solar cars.
