Rishith Chennupati · San Jose, CA
Building things that don’t exist yet.
I’m fourteen. I started writing code in middle school and haven’t really stopped since: iOS apps, on-device AI, web platforms, and lately a drone that flies itself. Everything I’ve made public lives below.
building nowAbout
A builder more than a user.
iOS is home, Python is the lab, and Next.js is how the labs get online. I’d rather ship five rough things this month than one perfect thing next year. A lot of what’s below started as a hackathon weekend or a 2am idea I couldn’t drop, and a few of them turned into apps people actually use.
Selected work
The index, ranked the way I’d rank it.
Pulled live from GitHub, ordered by what I care about and not by what was trending that week.
An autonomous GPS drone that flies waypoint missions with position hold and return-to-launch. Uses a Raspberry Pi for MAVLink control.
A new control system for computers that is different than the regular keyboard and mouse.
My personal website built with Next.js. Pulls live project data from GitHub.
A bootable x86 operating system with a shell, calculator, and Python REPL. Written in C and Assembly.
A real-time wildfire monitoring system that detects fires, predicts their spread, and helps coordinate emergency response.
4-key macropad + EC11 encoder + OLED, XIAO RP2040, KMK firmware. Submitted to Hack Club Hackpad YSWS.
A local tool that connects to CLIs running on your machine.
An AI basketball coach that uses a camera gimbal and computer vision to analyze your shots and give real-time feedback through an iOS app.
Personal site & app privacy policies
Robotics
Prometheus, a drone that flies itself.
A 1.85 kg quadcopter I’m building to fly on its own. You give it a list of GPS points, it takes off, holds position in the wind, runs the route, and turns back for home by itself if the battery runs low or the radio link drops. A Raspberry Pi rides on top and runs the missions over MAVLink, so I can write a whole flight in Python instead of flying it by stick.
