Portfolio · Fall 2026

Sawyer Scheiner

Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Class of 2029. Things I have designed, built, and tested.

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  1. 01FIRST Robotics competition robot
  2. 02Four-legged walking robot
  3. 03Remy, an AI coach over text
01, FIRST Robotics Team 5806: 120 lb competition robot. Build and Test Lead, Horace Mann School, 2022 to 2025. Led design and manufacture of a 36 by 36 inch, 120 lb robot that picks up, carries, and launches game pieces. Designed mechanisms in Fusion 360 and machined parts on a CNC mill. Ran the test cycle and redesigned parts that broke. Trained and managed 8 underclassmen.
02, Columbia SHAPE Advanced Robotics: four-legged walking robot, Summer 2023. Designed the body and legs in SolidWorks and 3D printed them. Drove each leg with servo motors controlled by an Arduino. Wrote inverse kinematics for foot placement and programmed several gait sequences, then tested and refined each gait.
03, Independent project: Remy, an AI coach that works over text. Sole designer and engineer, June 2026 to present. 430 users, 10,000+ interactions, 357k content views. Built the database, backend, payments, and web app on self-hosted infrastructure. Stack: Supabase, LoopMessage, Stripe, Docker, Next.js on Vercel.