Available for internships & collaborations
I’m Stas Kornuta — a maker in the SF Bay Area taking hardware from idea to working device: firmware in C/C++, enclosures in FreeCAD, and web integrations where they earn their place.
// 01 — selected builds
Hardware-first builds — firmware, RF, and the enclosures they live in.
An ESP32-D that pulls the currently playing track from Spotify and renders album art on a 240×240 round GC9A01 display. Handles OAuth2 token refresh on-device and decodes JPEGs with TJpg_Decoder + LovyanGFX. Firmware runs — the physical build and custom enclosure are next.
A Flipper Zero–inspired multitool built on ESP32. A 16×2 I²C LCD with a debounced four-button menu, a CC1101 Sub-GHz transceiver (315–915 MHz) with live RSSI readout, and IR receive. Compile-time flags make every module optional.
Addressable LED control from first principles — GRB channel ordering, PWM brightness, and a clean PlatformIO project layout, driving a WS2812B strip from GPIO2 with FastLED in C.
Parametric enclosures in FreeCAD for every embedded build — currently modeling a housing for the round GC9A01 display. Parts export to STL for FDM printing.
// 02 — technologies & tools
The bench setup — silicon, software, and the tools that tie them together.
Physical build & enclosure for the GC9A01 display — and looking toward robotics as the next frontier.
// 03 — background
I’m a maker and developer working where embedded systems, firmware, and the frontend meet. My process is hardware-first: pick a microcontroller, wire it up, write the firmware, then build whatever software the project demands.
Day to day, that’s ESP32 on PlatformIO with the Arduino framework in C/C++, editing in Zed or VS Code — with enclosures modeled in FreeCAD and printed on the bench.
Open to robotics clubs, engineering internships, and open-source hardware projects.
Bay Area trails
Acoustic & electric
Bikes, builds, projects
Building & tweaking
// 04 — get in touch
Open to internships, robotics teams, and open-source hardware. If you’re building something real, my inbox is open.