Hey there! My name is Jonathan Li, and I'm currently a sophomore in high
school. I'm really into autonomous robotics and ML. I've been building
cool things ever since I was young, and most of the stuff I do here is
self taught. I really thank my mom for all of her support in my passion. I
have a Youtube channel where I explain many of my projects, and my GitHub
has most of the code for them. Scroll down to view some of my work!
(Also as a sidenote sorry for website looking really sketchy, I just coded
it with pure HTML & CSS lol...no libraries like React)
Project Portfolio
PyTorch digit classification using a CNN. Data is from the MNIST
dataset.
Sentiment analysis using sklearn in Python.
Facial feature recognition using Haar Cascades (pretty old but popular
and powerful algorithm).
Gesture controlled mouse using Google's Mediapipe API for hand
landmarks, & PyAutoGUI to actually control the mouse.
Raspberry Pi Apriltag (or other fiducial markers) follower.
LiDAR connected to Raspberry Pi real time data visualization in RViz
via SSH
I learned the basics of ROS! Gazebo & RViz sim shown.
HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor motion lamp.
Simple Arduino obstacle avoiding robot using LiDAR
State-machine based autonomous plastic bottle pickup robot
GroundingDINO and PyTorch for FRC 2025 algae detection, helped by
mentor.
Played w/ YOLO11 pretrained object recognition.
Raspberry Pi facial recognition security camera, Haar Cascade based.
6 DOF 3D-printed armStuff I brought to show at Open Sauce 2024!My RC FPV strandbeest model, using an Arduino.My custom Arduino swerve drive
I made this "EV" for SciOly except I'm not doing SciOly anymore.
Heres my WIP design in Fusion 360 for a ROS LiDAR bot.
My Open Sauce 2024 experience & some cool (& famous) people I met!
My booth! Me explaning a dragonfly ornithopter mechanism.
At my booth I showed my Arduino quadcopter which uses an MPU-6050 gyro and
accelerometer, a line follower using 2 IR sensors, a 3D-printed humanoid
hand, facial recognition on a Raspberry Pi, an ornithopter, ArUco marker
detection, and a simple HC-05 bluetooth RC car. It was very fun!
I met Veritasium!
Eternal Progression (Josh) was in the same hotel!
I met James Hobson (The Hacksmith)!I met Allen Pan!I met Tom Stanton!I met Styropyro (Drake)!I met Jake Laser (JLaserVideo)I met Joel (Joel Creates)!I met Peter Sripol!I met James Whomsley (Project Air)!
