# ATAKANOR LAB

> The portfolio of Atakan, an engineer who designs robots, automated test and production machines, and the software that runs them. It is built as a walkable 3D lab: every machine runs its real process, and each one opens in Explore with the CAD model, drawings, photos and live simulations.

- Site: https://atakanor.com/ (best in a desktop browser; it also works on phones)
- Contact: atakanaralor@gmail.com
- If you have a project that piqued your interest, feel free to contact me!

## The lab (machines and software I am designing and building now)

- [Main_Test_Planner_V2.2](https://atakanor.com/#test-planner): Harness planning and work-order generator for the cable line. Reads KiCad boards, harness plans and datasheets, checks every cable, core and connector pin, and issues revisioned work orders to the cable line and the lab robot. Status: Prototype · example dry run passes end to end.
- [Cable_Preparation_System_V5.1](https://atakanor.com/#cable-preparation): Automatic cut · strip · crimp cell. Feeds wire from a reel, measures and cuts it, strips both ends, crimps ferrules with stepper-driven crimp pliers that log every force curve, and coils the finished cable into a crate. Status: CAD complete · first test order next.
- [Cable-Oriented_Solder_System_V3.8](https://atakanor.com/#cable-solder): Automatic wire-splicing machine. Holds two stripped wires side by side with a 7 mm overlap, solders the joint with a T12 iron and Sn63 and shrinks a sleeve over it with hot air; the operator loads each wire. Status: CAD complete · first hand trial next.
- [PCB_Solder_System_V4.1](https://atakanor.com/#pcb-solder): Tool-changing PCB soldering and rework robot. A tool-changing CoreXY robot that solders, reworks and places parts from 01005 to BGA on boards up to 300 × 300 mm, unattended. Status: v0.14 done · PCB and F1 orders next.
- [8-Probe_V14](https://atakanor.com/#8-probe): Eight-arm flying-probe tester. Eight SCARA arms land camera-corrected spring probes on any chosen points of a PCB, so any two points can be measured against each other without a board-specific fixture. Status: CAD reviewed · drawing sign-off next.
- [4/8-Probe_V15.1](https://atakanor.com/#4-8-probe): Dual-side flying-probe tester · 8 arms above, 4 probes below. The dual-side 8-Probe: eight arms test the top of a board while four probes rise from below it, so a net between a top pad and a bottom pad is measured in one pass. The lab robot loads it at the bay, and a USB-C dock on the pallet stays plugged into the board through the flip. Status: R15.1 robot loading · drawing check next.
- [ZipGrid_V3.0](https://atakanor.com/#zipgrid): 100 mm modular lab tile system · 3D-printed. 3D-printed 100 mm bench tiles with edges, desk locks and accessories: ball-joint camera arms, power and measurement docks, turntables, kit trays. 92 part types carry AprilTags for the lab robot; small parts are known by their kit-tray slot. Status: Tolerance plates printing · fit tests next.
- [2Arm_Mobile_Lab_Worker](https://atakanor.com/#mobile-lab-worker): Mobile dual-arm robot for an autonomous electronics lab. A wheeled robot with a lifting column and two SO-101 arms that moves parts between the machines and operates them like a person. The animation shows a planned job: fetching a kit from the storage unit and building a camera test set-up on the ZipGrid bench. Status: Rev B.6.1 done · physical acceptance next.
- [Autonomous_Lab_Main_Storage_Unit](https://atakanor.com/#lab-storage): Automatic parts store · mini AS/RS. Printed parts go into the input drawer: a camera reads their AprilTags, a shuttle fetches the right box and a picker files each part into its cell. Orders leave through the output drawer, here as a kit for the lab robot next door. Status: Design done · S / M / L size choice next.

## Earlier work (university teams, internships and student jobs)

- [Entwicklung eines Prototypes 6x2 Chassis, die Integration von deren Sensordaten mittels verschiedene Steuerungsvarianten](https://atakanor.com/#truck-chassis): Bachelor thesis 2023 with Daimler AG · 6×2 truck chassis level control. A 6×2 truck chassis prototype on air springs with four ride-height sensors, controlled by a Raspberry Pi running Simulink. When the truck simulation on the monitor needs a higher chassis, the real one rises at the same moment. Status: Bachelor thesis 2023 · invited to ICCASE, New York.
- [Force&Torque Sensor Based Robotic Arm for Sorting Processes](https://atakanor.com/#force-torque-sorting): UR cobot with a wrist force-torque sensor · award winner 2022. A collaborative robot arm picks each closed parcel, shakes it briefly, estimates what is inside from the force-torque signal and sorts it into the matching carton. Status: Beni Fark Et 2022 · Engineering, 1st in Turkey.
- [Autonomous_Underwater_Vehicle](https://atakanor.com/#underwater-vehicle): Teknofest 2021 finalist · electronics team lead. Our team's autonomous underwater vehicle for Teknofest 2021, where we reached the final. It locates an acoustic pinger with hydrophones, then finds a ring gate by camera and swims through it. I led the electronics team. Status: Teknofest 2021 finalist · electronics team lead.
- [Autonomous_Model_Car](https://atakanor.com/#model-car): TU Berlin × TDU · neural-network navigation. A 4WD self-driving prototype from a TU Berlin project: a camera and an ultrasonic sensor feed a neural network that follows the lanes, reads traffic signs and stops when it has to. I led the electronics team. Status: TU Berlin project · electronics team lead.
- [QR_Pharmacy_Helper](https://atakanor.com/#pharmacy-helper): QR-code inventory with pick-to-light cabinets. One of my earliest projects: every medicine box is booked in and out by its QR code, and when a carton arrives an LED lights the bin where each box belongs, across a whole wall of cabinets. Status: Early project · planned, no robot.
- [High-Voltage_Long-Term_Test_System](https://atakanor.com/#hv-test-system): Bosch R&D · Siemens S7-1500 PLC with Modbus gateway. At Bosch R&D I build and program test racks like this one: an S7-1500 runs long-duration HV battery tests, reads a thermal camera and sensors over Modbus and stops at limits. Status: Working student at Bosch R&D since 2024.

## Hobby room (side projects, just for fun)

- [Krep-Inator_V6](https://atakanor.com/#krep-inator): Autonomous four-pan crêpe robot. A rotating four-pan table: a rozell doses and spreads chilled batter, heated lids bake it, a camera grades the colour, a hot die brands it and a tilting blade ejects it. Status: V6 concept + sim · single-pan rig next.
- [MyFinalVideo](https://atakanor.com/#myfinalvideo): Video messages delivered after you are gone · web + app. Record a video message in the browser, encrypted before it leaves your device. MyFinalVideo checks in with you by e-mail; if you stop answering and a trusted contact confirms, it delivers your messages to the people you chose. Status: Live at myfinalvideo.com · web and app.
- [ViralTube](https://atakanor.com/#viraltube): Automatic YouTube and Shorts video studio · 25 channels. A local video factory: from one topic it writes the script, makes the scene pictures, voice-over, subtitles and music, checks the result and schedules it to YouTube, across 25 connected channels organised by concept, in English, Turkish and German. Status: Studio works locally · 25 channels connected.
- [Iremember](https://atakanor.com/#iremember): Video love capsules for the 14 February you choose · web + app. Record a video (and a love note) for the person you love and choose the 14 February it goes out: the next one, or with Premium up to five years ahead. Add the days that matter to you both and get a reminder 30 days before each one. Status: Preview mode ready · launch at irememberdates.com next.
- [Fightcities & Daily Life Simulator](https://atakanor.com/#fightcities): Real-time strategy game · persistent city life simulation. Fightcities, a real-time strategy game on a 20 Hz Python server with an isometric 60 FPS web client and a Godot client, and Daily Life Simulator, a city of 20,000 simulated residents where you start at 18. Status: Fightcities in progress · Daily Life Simulator v0.9.1.
- [ShopRouter](https://atakanor.com/#shoprouter): Where is it in the store? · the shortest route to the checkout. Shoppers mark where products sit in a supermarket and earn a few cents for it. Give the app a shopping list, or just "I'm making lasagne", and it picks the nearby store with the most items and draws the shortest route from the entrance through the store to the best checkout. Status: Security review done · launch next.
- [Plane Crash](https://atakanor.com/#plane-crash): 2.5D co-op puzzle platformer · Godot. A co-op game where the world is a real 3D grid but every player only sees one 2D slice of it: the XY plane or the ZY plane. Stand on a junction to turn 90° into the other plane. You can't see teammates on other planes, so you have to talk. Status: 35 levels in 7 chapters · Steam release next.
- [Ironveil Chronicles](https://atakanor.com/#ironveil-chronicles): Online 3D isometric action RPG in the browser. An isometric 3D action RPG that runs in the browser: armoured meerkat knights in five classes fight through 27 generated stages and 13 bosses with telegraphed attacks. A small Node.js server keeps the accounts, checks every save and shows the other players live in town. Status: Playable locally · not online yet.
- [Office_Based_AI-Planning/Work_System](https://atakanor.com/#kubik): A 16-bit office for AI coding agents. My AI coding agents work as staff in a 16-bit office: every project is a room, every desk an agent session. I tell the CTO what I want, he writes a task card, and nothing starts until I approve it. Agents raise a hand when they need permission. Status: In development · Kübik 0.6.15.
- [Nut Werbung](https://atakanor.com/#nut-werbung): Branding M8 stainless nuts: a hand press and a 100-nut cell. Every M8 stainless nut gets “ATAKANOR / .COM” or a QR code on one side face: a hand toggle press stamps one nut at a time, and an autonomous bench-top cell marks 100 at once electrochemically. Designed and simulated; nothing is built yet. Status: Concept + simulations · nothing built yet.
- [RC_Paintball_Tanks](https://atakanor.com/#rc-tanks): Browser-driven paintball tank. A 63 cm, 37 kg tank that players drive from home in a browser: PU belt tracks, a 360° turret with a real .68 paintball marker, hit-sensing armour, and it hops when hit. Status: Rev 2.0 production package · build next.
- [Time Saving Extensions](https://atakanor.com/#extensions): Browser extensions and desktop utilities. Two Edge extensions (Auto Continue for long chats, Inline Comments for forum threads), a phone remote for a PC soundboard, a one-click audio output switcher and a MacBook window-preset app. Status: All tools working.

## Copyright and reuse

- All content of ATAKANOR LAB (https://atakanor.com/) — the 3D lab, the machine and software designs, CAD models, drawings, photos, simulations, texts and code — is © 2026 Atakan. All rights reserved.
- Linking to the site is welcome.
- Short quotes are fine when they clearly name the source: "Source: Atakan — ATAKANOR LAB, https://atakanor.com/".
- Copying, republishing or rebuilding the site, its projects or its designs, in whole or in part, by hand or with automated tools, requires my prior written permission.
- I reserve the right to take legal action against unauthorized copying.
- Details: https://atakanor.com/copyright.html

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