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DanielProano/README.md

Hi, I'm Danny!

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About

I specialize in embedded system design, developing
low level systems for racecars, drones, and rocket ships!
I have done everything from flight controllers to motor
controllers to advanced NAND logging systems!
I also like to work on embedded security!

Portfolio

Find most of my research and information on Portfolio website: dannyproano.com

Autonomous Racing Kart Co-lead

second_attempt_2.mp4

I co-led the software team for Autonomous Racing Kart. In the summer of 2026, we won the International Autonomous Collegiate Series against 8 other Autonomous Racecars!

Autonomous Drone

I spent my entire summer developing an autonomous drone, using STM32s
and ESP32s to host the following software stack:

Hand Made Real Time OS

I could have used FreeRTOS for my drone, but I wanted to go deeper.
I wanted to own everything. So I made my own Real Time OS, doing it
the old fashioned way by traversing datasheets for the bytes and bits
I needed to enable my drone:

Custom Flight Controller

I made a flight controller that takes quaternions from an IMU and altitude
data from a barometer to create a stabilization PID loop for my drone:

A secure bootloader in SPARK Ada

I wanted to experiment with SPARK Ada, a formally verified language that
enables its user to prove that their function does exactly what they think
it does:

Motor Controller

I'm the lead of motor controller, where I am currently leading the effort
to develop our own stack for a 60 Amp motor controller in C++:

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  1. EVC-Purdue/AutonomousKart EVC-Purdue/AutonomousKart Public

    Main codebase for the Autonomous kart project!

    Python 13 2

  2. Firefly Firefly Public

    A (mostly) hand-made real-time operating system for the STM32F4, featuring an event-driven, preemptive scheduler with priority-based task ordering, along with queue, mutex, and semaphore primitives

    C

  3. Buffalo Buffalo Public

    A formally verified Secure Bootloader with SPARK Ada for STM32F4, featuring signature verificatition & automatic rollback

    C

  4. Dragonfly Dragonfly Public

    A Bare-Metal Flight Controller for an Autonomous Drone written in C, featuring a PID Control loop, IMU integration, Mahony Filtering, and DShot600 protocol support

    C

  5. Dragonfly_Ground_Station Dragonfly_Ground_Station Public

    Wi-Fi ground control station for commanding an autonomous drone from a laptop CLI

    C

  6. ESP32_Bridge ESP32_Bridge Public

    ESP32-based telemetry and command bridge connecting a ground station to an STM32 flight controller, with RC passthrough and an onboard status display, for my autonomous drone.

    C