2025 FRC season
Three-Stage Cascading Elevator
A fully belt-driven three-stage cascading elevator that reaches a 7-ft scoring target from inside a 3 ft 6 in. starting-height envelope — redesigned component-by-component through testing.
Mechanical Engineering — UC Berkeley
Yashwanth Piratla
Mechanical engineering student focused on mechanical design, robotics, CAD, manufacturing, and hands-on engineering.
I don't just know CAD — I design mechanisms, build them, test them, find out why they fail, redesign them, and make them work.
Engineering projects
Mechanical design, built and tested
2026 FRC season
Deployable Multi-Level Climbing Mechanism
A deployable climber that carries the full weight of the robot up multiple bars on alternating carbon-fiber hooks — packaged into three inches of space between the swerve modules and shooter.
2024 FRC season
MK4 Swerve Drivebase & Robot Architecture
The complete mechanical architecture for a 2026 FRC robot — chassis, frame rails, bellypan, and an under-bellypan electronics layout that freed the upper chassis for the elevator, climber, and under-bumper intake.
5" FPV Drone
A personal mechanical and electrical project — designing and assembling a 5-inch FPV drone and integrating the frame, motors, flight controller, ESC, ELRS receiver, battery, and power system.
Preview page → In progress
Research
Technical & research work
Collaborative research
Wearable Health ML Research
A two-person research project on wearable cardiovascular signals — I built the SwiftUI iOS application and HealthKit data collection, and drove the app concept and system architecture around a machine-learning study.
About
Engineering, hands on the hardware
I'm a mechanical engineering student at the University of California, Berkeley. Most of my engineering experience comes from four years of FIRST Robotics Competition, where I led a 40-member team and designed the mechanisms, drivetrain architecture, and robot packaging that had to survive real matches.
My work sits where mechanical design meets manufacturing and testing: CAD in Onshape and SolidWorks, CNC and manual machining, plasma cutting, 3D printing, and the iteration cycle that follows the first time a part breaks.