second-year cse student building games, interactive experiments, and software from scratch.
I’m Aranya, a second-year CSE student at VIT Pune. I’m drawn to the little details that make an experience feel real: a camera that moves just right, a gesture that registers instantly, or a sensor that turns a physical motion into play. I often rebuild a small version from scratch to understand what’s happening under the hood.
Understand the black box. I like rebuilding a small version of a system once, just to see how the pieces work.
Feel matters. My gesture game taught me that smoothing noisy input can matter more than tracking every raw movement.
Make it tangible. A quick playable prototype or sensor demo teaches me more than an idea left on paper.
Small vision games and microcontroller experiments
Unity 2D, game loops, state machines, trees & graphs
Guitar, badminton, and getting out with my camera
recreating fruit ninja's tactile slicing mechanic using computer vision. rather than clicking and dragging with a mouse, the player slices through oncoming fruits purely with natural hand slashes captured by a standard 30fps webcam.
the pipeline runs frame-by-frame: opencv pulls the video feed, mediapipe hands extracts 21 3D landmark coordinates, and the index fingertip position is translated into in-game slicing vectors inside a pygame loop with custom gravity and fruit physics.
fast hand slashes caused tracking skips between frames, making the blade "jump" past fruits without registering hits. i resolved this by keeping a rolling trail of coordinates and performing continuous line-segment intersection checks against fruit hitboxes instead of static point checks.
game feel in gesture input is entirely about forgiveness and latency. small mathematical dampening on landmark jitter and extending the blade hit-window by just 2 frames turned a frustrating experience into something that felt instant and satisfying.
many students in regional schools struggle when technical and scientific concepts are taught strictly in english. the goal was to build a localized tutor that explains complex curriculum topics naturally in their mother tongue.
built with react and typescript, featuring dual-persona switching (friendly peer vs. structured tutor). queries are bound to specific grade-level syllabi and routed to google's gemini api with customized system instructions for vernacular terminology.
direct literal machine translations often corrupted mathematical symbols and scientific terminology (e.g., hindi or marathi explanations losing formulas). i engineered prompt guards to enforce code-mixed explanations (Hinglish/Marathi-English) so formulas remain pristine while explanations stay conversational.
evaluating llm outputs for non-english languages requires contextual cultural grounding, not just translation accuracy. latency also heavily impacts trust in educational tools, so streaming responses was essential.
designing a compact, sensory-rich horror game capable of running seamlessly on stand-alone vr headsets with an emphasis on spatial immersion rather than cheap visual jumpscares.
developed in unity using c# scripting. implemented binaural audio raycasts that calculate distance falloff and wall occlusions, realistic flashlight cone physics, and trigger-based entity state machines.
preventing motion sickness in a claustrophobic indoor map without sacrificing tension. continuous smooth locomotion caused disorientation for casual festival attendees, so we engineered smooth snap-turning, vignette FOV tunneling during bursts of movement, and calibrated physical hand interactions.
in vr, audio does 70% of the world-building work. players reacted far more intensely to subtle footstep delays and directional creaks behind them than to high-poly models in plain sight.
other projects built across web redesigns, embedded iot hardware, and game physics.
a clean redesign of the cbse website to make notifications, syllabus links, and results much easier to navigate.
an assistive navigation prototype that alerts visually impaired users to nearby obstacles using ultrasonic sensors and vibration motors.
a real-time balance game controlled by tilting a physical esp32 microcontroller wired to an mpu6050 gyroscope.
my projects, achievements and my journey, documented.
born in nagpur and grew up across 7 different cities. moving around so much made me curious, adaptable, and quick to settle into new places.
moved across different schools, made lifelong friends, and first got hooked on computers and problem-solving.
runner-up at the maharashtra state level football-tennis tournament (u-14) and played inter-school badminton for the school team.
state rank 23 in spell bee and competed in national science and cyber olympiads (sof, silverzone), picking up 20+ medals along the way.
topped school with 95.6% in 10th and 96.4% in 12th. served as school head boy, organizing student events and leading the council.
lived in pune, mumbai, nagpur, goa, hyderabad, baramati, kolhapur, and solapur. love traveling to places like hampi, agra, and nainital.
studying cse at vit pune (9.3 sgpa in sem 1). spending time with tech clubs, hackathons, and figuring out what to build next.
built projects across ai chatbots, a vr horror game, gesture tracking with opencv, and hardware with microcontrollers.
a personal space to document what i build, what i learn, and my progress over time.