Alex Necakov



Project highlights through the years! For a full list, check out my GitHub and Itch.io pages.

PUCKFish

Winner of the Boston University Best Electrical & Computer Engineering Project Award for 2022!

My college senior capstone project. An Arduino based sensor ball meant to record data from the bottom of the ocean floor.

Cool technical features include:

  • Can withstand undersea conditions at 1000 ft below sea level
  • Can collect 10 days worth of undersea data (pressure, temp, dissolved o2, light, salinity, current speed) without a recharge
  • Wireless transmission using LoRa radio to base unit
  • Custom web server for data visualization using CanvasJS
  • You can view the source and documentation here

    September, 2021 - May, 2022

    Escape Velocity

    My latest project, a gravity-based space exploration game where you control a space probe with limited fuel and use gravity to help you explore the cosmos.

    Cool technical features include:

  • Custom impulse-based physics with realistic gravity
  • AABB and circle collision detection
  • Hand made entity system in C using the Oogabooga engine
  • You can download the game here

    September, 2024 - October, 2024

    Surviving Vampires

    A Vampire Survivors clone written in C! Run around and kill enemies with your sword and auto-firing gun.

    Cool technical features include:

  • Support for up to 10,000 entities on screen
  • Particle and screen shake system
  • You can download the game here

    September, 2024

    ...And More!

  • High Powered Model Rocket
  • Final Fantasy Clone from scratch (in C)
  • Pac-Man clone with HLSL shaders
  • Self-driving model car with wall following and cruise control
  • Kirby-inspired platformer, written in Scratch
  • CT State-champion FTC robots (2018) with computer vision in Vuforia
  • A really crappy iOS tomato timer app in Obj-C
  • My React Native fitness tracker app
  • Gyroscope ball rolling maze game in Cocos2d
  • Temperature controlled box with some Arduinos
  • Bluetooth speaker hacked Billy Bass talking fish
  • An I2C component in verilog for device spoofing
  • Too many bracket making apps in C, Go, and JS
  • This site lol
  • Some animated bugs made in OpenGL Python bindings
  • A crappy CLI version of Oregon Trail in Python
  • Some old meme videos in Premier, Final Cut, Sony Vegas, and Kdenlive
  • Reading app... coming soon