Museums
Exhibit figures that move and react when visitors walk up, so people learn by watching how something works.
MIT Class of 2030Course 6-5, Electrical Engineering with Computing
Hasin
Shaykat
I'm a freshman at MIT studying electrical engineering and computing. Right now I'm building a real, physical version of a character from my own game. I've also shipped two apps, published two physics papers, and I write horror scripts and novels on the side.
- BUILDING
- Goo, the first living character at Sparkwire Studios
- SHIPPING
- Rat Lab to the App Store and Google Play
- WRITING
- BE SAFE, a feature horror screenplay
What I've made
Each project gets its own look. Click one or keep scrolling.
Living charactersSparkwire Studios
Animatronics for hireSparkwire Interactive
Mobile gameRat Lab
Litter robotECO-Sweep
Pfizer × ExternDocuRAG
SAT prep appAscend
NonprofitCodeForChampions
Real estate toolPropIQ
Software for job shopsShop Memory
Motorsports, ESG, MAIAAt MIT
Two papersResearch
Film & writingStories
High schoolRecord
Sparkwire Studios
Sparkwire Studios is the company I started to make characters you can actually meet: small robots that notice you, turn toward you and react. We're starting with toys and demos, and the long-term goal is full themed attractions. Our first character is Goo, Experiment 003 from my game Rat Lab.
GOO RIG v0.1 · liveMove the sliders, or let Goo follow your mouse
The first version of Goo sits on a desk. It turns toward you, leans in, and breathes. These specs are from our actual build plan.
- BRAIN
- Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 V power inside the pedestal
- TURN
- MG996R servo, ±70°, under the bearing
- LEAN
- MG996R servo, ±12°; a hinge pin carries the weight, not the servo
- BEARING
- 4" lazy-susan, 102 × 102 mm, takes all the load
- EYES
- Eye mechanism, 145 × 95 × 65 mm
- SENSING
- Camera "nose" that turns with the body
- SIZE
- ≈ 250 mm tall, 210 mm body, 220 mm pedestal
Sparkwire
Interactive
Sparkwire Interactive is a side company. At Studios we build our own characters. At Interactive we'd build animatronics, practical effects and interactive installs for other people, like museums, film studios and venues.
Performance desk
Move the faders, pick an expression, or press Run to play a short performance.
Film & TV
Animatronic puppets and rigs for shots that need a real object on set instead of CGI.
Venues
Characters for haunted houses, escape rooms, pop-ups and lines, so there's something to watch while people wait.
- Character & storyWho the character is and what it reacts to.
- MechanismWhich parts move, which servos move them, and the frame that holds the weight.
- Build & wireFabrication, wiring, power, sensors and controllers.
- PerformanceProgramming the movements and reactions.
- InstallSetting it up on site and making it easy to repair.
Rat Lab
Rat Lab is a 3D mobile game about lab experiments racing to mutate. There are fifteen of them, and each has a basic attack and a special move. Pick one and try it.
EXPERIMENT 003
Goo
Use the arrows or your keyboard. Experiment 100 is still locked.
Fly.io game server · RevenueCat in-app purchases · com.haxxin.ratlab
ECO-Sweep
A low-cost rover for picking up park litter, built by a high school club I founded. I raised $500+ for parts, ran workshops for 15 students, and did most of the wiring, assembly and power design. Our faculty advisor wrote the code.
Prototype 1's control loop. Drag the can.
HC-SR04 distance—
Motors—
Arduino supply—
Button D2
every ~100 ms:
ping HC-SR04 → distance (cm)
if distance > 15 or no echo: drive forward
else: stop
button (D2) → run / pause
THE FAULT I TRACKED DOWN
Two L298N drivers and the Arduino shared one AA pack, so VIN got 5 V when it needs 7–12 V, and the second driver wasn't on the battery's ground rail. The motors jittered and the Arduino kept resetting. Switch to "The original fault" above to see what that looked like.
UNIT-107 fixed it: one 12 V NiMH pack split into a motor path through a Cytron MDD20A and a 5 V logic path through a buck converter, all on one common ground.
What I'd do differently: we never recorded speed, runtime or sensor range. Next time I'd set up tests from day one and log every run.
DocuRAG
During my Pfizer externship I built DocuRAG, a pipeline that reads pharmaceutical supplier documents and answers questions about them. I tested it on real documents from Cytiva and BASF.
Certificate of Quality
BSE/TSE
Packaging Spec
100%answer accuracy on an 8-question suite
0.812mean reciprocal rank
100%recall at 3
70.8%precision at 3
1.6 saverage latency
Ascend
Ascend is an SAT prep app I built and got onto both app stores. It has full timed tests across all four sections, a heatmap that shows where you're losing points, and a referral system that unlocks more tests.
Math · Module 135:00
Tap through three of the main screens. This is a mockup I made for this page, so the question and the numbers are just examples.
Getting it into the stores
- First iOS submission rejectedDemo credentials, a missing support URL, a heatmap bug and metadata problems.
- ResubmittedFixed everything they flagged and sent it back.
- Approved on the App StoreLive on iOS.
- Google Play closed testing12 opted-in testers for 14 days before production access.
- Live on Google PlayFully deployed on both stores.
CodeFor
Champions
I started CodeForChampions in 2024 to teach coding and AI to kids who don't get it at school. About 20 of us built the lessons, quizzes and workshops, ran hackathons, and raised over $1,000 for books, Wi-Fi routers and refurbished Chromebooks.
Lesson 1 · your first loop
Edit the name and the count, then press Run.
100+students taught
~20volunteers on the team
20+video lessons published
$1,000+raised for books and tech
GhanaIndiaThe Philippines
Python · JavaScript · HTML/CSS · AI basics · hackathons
PropIQ
PropIQ takes a Zillow listing and turns it into an investment spreadsheet. I built it while running the numbers on a duplex in Queens, comparing an FHA loan to a conventional one, with rent from the second unit covering part of the mortgage.
| A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inputs | Value | |
| 2 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | Results | FHA | Conventional |
| 7 | Down payment | ||
| 8 | Loan amount | ||
| 9 | Principal + interest / mo | ||
| 10 | Mortgage insurance / mo | ||
| 11 | Total housing cost / mo | ||
| 12 | After rent / mo |
Edit any blue cell and the sheet recalculates. Click a result to see its formula.
Example inputs, not a real listing. Simplified: FHA uses 3.5% down, a 1.75% upfront premium rolled into the loan and 0.55% a year; conventional uses 20% down with no PMI. Both are 30-year fixed.
PropIQ pulls listing data through RapidAPI and current rates from FRED, then writes the analysis to Excel.
Shop Memory
In a lot of small CNC shops, the details of how a part was made live in one machinist's head. Shop Memory records how each job was quoted and made, so when a repeat order comes in, the shop can pull up exactly what they did last time.
Pick a job to see what Shop Memory saved from last time.
Example jobs written for this page to show the idea.
At MIT
Business & Operations
Formula Student team building an electric, four-wheel-drive car with autonomous systems. My first time inside a large engineering team.
ES.801 and a team build
A month-long team project with a physics and mechanics requirement.
MAIA
Member of MAIA at MIT.
Research
I wrote two physics papers in high school. One is about Noether's theorem, which connects symmetries to conservation laws. The other proves Bell's theorem with a game that quantum players win more often than classical ones. You can try both below.
Noether's theorem
If a system has a continuous symmetry, some quantity is conserved. Pick a symmetry to see which one.
IJHSR · 2026Vol. 8, Issue 2 · pp. 39–49
On Noether's Theorem and Applications in Classical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
Derives the Euler–Lagrange equation from scratch, then uses Noether's procedure for energy, momentum and angular momentum, E = mc² for a free relativistic particle, and the conserved current of scalar QED. Mentored by Dr. Surjeet Rajendran (Johns Hopkins); reviewed by faculty from Brookhaven, CCNY and Columbia.
Read the paperNHSJS · 2025Accepted Feb 16, 2025
Derivation of Bell's Theorem Using Non-Local Games
A proof of Bell's theorem through the CHSH game. Checking all 16 deterministic strategies shows players who can't communicate win at most 75% of rounds. With a shared Bell pair, the win rate reaches cos²(π/8) ≈ 85.4%.
Read the paperPlay the CHSH game
A referee sends Alice a bit x and Bob a bit y. Each answers 0 or 1 without talking. They win when their answers match, unless both got a 1; then the answers must differ.
Classical: both always answer 0.
Quantum: share |Φ⁺⟩; Alice measures at 0° or 45°, Bob at ±22.5°.
MITES semester, 2025Dark matter simulations
Simulated dark matter in the astrophysics track. My feature on retrocausality won the Science Writing & Communication Instructor Choice Award.
TalksCosmic Pathways and MoMath
Presented my research to faculty from Adelphi, Rochester and CCNY, and gave a talk on Noether's Theorem at the National Museum of Mathematics.
CourseworkBeyond the standard track
Real Analysis and Complex Analysis through Stanford Online High School, AP Physics C, and ES.801 at MIT.
Stories
I want to direct films one day. I look up to directors like George Lucas who pushed film technology forward. For now I write and make short films. Click a title to put it on the screen.
COVER STORY · AUGUST 2026
"Dream Big, Spike Hard"
Cover feature in Forest Hills Living, the Queens neighborhood magazine.
Record
I went to The Kew-Forest School in Queens and graduated in 2026. Here's what I did there.
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S. candidate, Course 6-5 · 2026–2030
The Kew-Forest SchoolForest Hills, Queens · Class of 2026
$20,500
in scholarships, from the Milken Scholars program and A Better Chance
Honors
2026Milken Scholarship$10,000
2026A Better Chance John Visentin Scholar Award$8,000
Gave the acceptance speech, on CodeForChampions.
2025MITES Instructor Choice Award
Science Writing & Communication, for a feature on retrocausality.
2025NY State Attorney General Triple "C" Award
Character, Courage and Commitment.
2025A Better Chance Morgan Stanley Distinction Award$2,500
2024Presidential Volunteer Service Award, Gold
290+ hours of STEM service at MoMath.
2023GCMUN Delegate Award
General Committee.
Activities
MUNModel UN · Co-President & Crisis Director
Led the school's largest club, ran crisis simulations, and grew it to a quarter of the upper school.
8th–12thVarsity Soccer · Co-Captain & Striker
Varsity since 8th grade, co-captain from 11th; took the team to regionals.
MoMathMuseum of Mathematics · Intern & Speaker
Explained exhibits to 100+ visitors a day and gave a talk on Noether's Theorem.
MITESMITES Scholar · Astrophysics & Science Writing
Dark matter simulations and a physics feature, presented to 50+ peers and faculty.
YYGSYale Young Global Scholars · STEM
AI, astronomy and sustainability with Yale faculty; group project on fluid dynamics.
VideoScience explainer videos
CMOS chips and Noether's Theorem, for the AASF and Breakthrough contests.
ClubScience & Research Club · Co-Captain
Helped members design experiments, present research and find competitions.
ClubECO-Sweep and CodeForChampions
Founded both; each has its own world above.
Let's build something
If you're on a robotics or hardware team, work at a museum, studio or venue, or just want to talk about Sparkwire, send me an email.
hshaykat@mit.edu