Gavin Woods

A personal collection of work & ideas

Made to work.
Built to learn.

I’m Gavin. I design and build competitive robots, experiment with software, and find new uses for old hardware.

Explore my work
FIG. 01FORM / FUNCTION
Robot CAD assembly showing the frame, rollers, belts, gears, and mechanical components.
How the pieces fit together.Robot CAD
Mechanical designCompetitive roboticsSoftware experimentsLinux & hardware

01 / The work

A few things I’ve
been building.

Robots, code, and the systems
that make them useful.

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Mechanical / Robotics

From CAD to competition.

Mechanical design, building, and iteration with my FRC team. Working on the robot is only part of it; teaching new members matters too.

Mechanical designCADTeam leadership
The 2026 competition robot with red bumpers, exposed mechanisms, and wiring.
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Software / Game modding

A calculator, inside Minecraft.

A Minecraft mod project that brings a graphing calculator into the game for calculations during larger builds.

JavaKotlinMinecraft
MI-84 graphing calculator displaying several graphs beside the Minecraft player inventory.
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Web / Self-hosting

An old laptop. A new purpose.

This website runs on an old HP laptop with Arch Linux, served through Cloudflare. A small project with a home of its own.

AstroArch LinuxSelf-hosting
The HP laptop running htop beside a router.

02 / Behind the projects

Curiosity usually starts
with “could I build that?”

For me, that has led to a first PC, Linux systems, and competitive robotics. I like learning by putting things together and seeing what happens.

A little more about me

Have something in mind?

Let’s talk.