Rockets, robots, and a recovery app.
I'm Atherv: EE student at De Anza and co-founder of Berry Brave. Everything on this bench is something I built.
Investing? Start with Berry Brave. Hiring? Read the resume. Admissions? Read the story.
Co-founder, sole developer
Berry Brave
A recovery app for teenagers with eating disorders. Private by design, built solo.
- lines of Swift
- 15.5k
- lines of Swift
- tests across 20 suites
- 208
- tests across 20 suites
- network clients in the app
- 0
- network clients in the app
- teens surveyed
- ~200
- teens surveyed
The bench
From a 20 nA power board to a GPS-guided rocket. Pick anything up.
Launch rail
Dagger
A GPS waypoint-guided model rocket. Flight computer, airframe, and control surfaces, all mine.
- waypoint accuracy target
- <2 m
- waypoint accuracy target
- AGL ceiling target
- 300 m
- AGL ceiling target
- sensor fusion
- 100 Hz
- sensor fusion
- telemetry logging
- 10 Hz
- telemetry logging
Apr 2026 to now / In progress
Under the magnifier
Pushbutton Buck Power Manager
A 4-layer power board for battery gear that needs to actually turn off.
2026
Terminal
NEXUS
A local AI lab that routes between three models, fully offline, on a laptop's integrated GPU.
Apr 2026 to now
Arm bay
Gesture-Controlled Robotic Arms
Two 6-DoF arms that follow your hands, about 10 ms end to end.
May 2026 to now
Display stand
Active Stabilization Rocket
Eight servo-driven fins, a Kalman filter, and five-plus flights of learning.
2024 to 2025
Back wall
Smart Mirror
A two-way-mirror display on a Raspberry Pi 4, in an enclosure I built.
Jun to Aug 2026
Charging pad
7-inch FPV Drone
Fifteen-plus parts, sourced and wired by hand, tuned until it flew clean.
2023
Top shelf
ESP32 Interactive Display
OLED animations and a NeoPixel, ported across two different ESP32 boards.
2025
Under the bench
PC Builds and Home Network
Three desktops from part list to OS, plus a Pi-hole on the home network.
2022 to 2023
On the shelf
Phi Theta Kappa
Honor society, De Anza College
Presidential Volunteer Service Award
Silver, for three years teaching Taekwondo (2025)
Seal of Biliteracy
English and Spanish (2026)
Black Belt
TG Taekwondo, 7+ years of training
Certifications
Engineering
- Advanced Embedded Systems on Arm
Arm (edX), Jul 2025
- Machine Learning at the Edge
Arm (edX), Jul 2025
- Hands-on Introduction to Engineering Simulations
Cornell University (edX), Oct 2025
- Intro to Systems Engineering Specialization
University of Colorado Boulder (Coursera), Oct 2025
- FAA TRUST Recreational UAS Safety Test
Federal Aviation Administration
AI
- Google AI Professional Certificate
Google (Coursera), May 2026
- AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations
Anthropic Education, Jun 2026
- Claude 101
Anthropic Education, Jun 2026