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Gundam Basic Education for Educators
Educational maker demo using cheap tools, a temperature sensor, and an Arduino-style setup to demonstrate sensing and response in a memorable way.
Manifesto
This is a site about building.
Octo_π is my creative portoflio structured around a broad body of work: Projects, experiments and portfolio
Im showing myself - engineering with a creative streak, curiosity that turns into prototypes and social work
- Engineer with a creative side
- Games + tools + experiments
- Leadership, tutoring, volunteering
Lab
The lab is where curiosity gets built
This is my personal mix of software, hardware, education, and playful engineering.
Some of these projects are practical. Some are educational demos. Some are the kind of thing only makes sense because it was fun to build.
- Educational prototypes
- Terminal weirdness
- Hardware + computer vision
- Current experimental builds
FeaturedLab
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Helldivers Salute Drop
Computer-vision experiment that detects a Helldivers-style salute and responds by calling in a 500kg drop.
interactive
Current Build: Treadmill Controller
Current project: a treadmill that controls movement, detects jumping, and maps additional controller actions for FPS play.
Project Index7 entries
StudyGotcchi
A tamagotchi-inspired study companion built around pomodoro rhythms and the feeling of a study tool that has personality.
Trashgang Terminal Group Chat
Terminal group chat using ngrok with inbuilt video watching logic, including an algorithm that converts YouTube videos into ASCII output inside the terminal interface.
Open GitHub
Obsidian Notes Project
A live notes-oriented project at `adamdawud.dev`, representing the practical web tooling side of your work and giving the site a real public-facing study/productivity link.
Open project
Aperture Scheduler
A live scheduling project at `aperture.adamdawud.dev`, showing the more structured productivity and systems-design side of your web work.
Open scheduler
Helldivers OpenCV Salute
A funny prototype with real implementation underneath: salute recognition through OpenCV that triggers an in-game style 500kg response.
Watch demo
Gundam Basic Education for Educators
Simple experimental program for teaching basic Arduino and sensing concepts with cheap hardware, using temperature detection to charge a Gundam shield above room baseline.
Watch demoTreadmill Game Controller
Current build exploring how a treadmill can control movement in games, detect jumping, and trigger shooter actions for FPS play.
Game Dev
Games are where engineering, aesthetics, and my brand collide.
From a year as a junior developer at Margastua Studios to personal Unreal prototyping, this chapter should feel like forward motion, iteration, and worldbuilding.
This is the strongest argument for my ambition. It combines my studio experience, culture-driven prototypes, combat design, environment work, puzzle design, and experiments that are sometimes weird but very fun.
- 1 year as junior developer
- Puzzle, combat, environment, and prototype work
- Games as both craft and culture
FeaturedGame Dev
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Surna Prototype
Combat and RPG prototyping in Unreal, built around a souls-like feel and a Nusantara-inspired cultural setting.
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Puzzle Prototype
Prototype puzzle game using a Portal-like perception mechanic where objects appear or disappear depending on where the player looks.
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Environment Design
Environment design drawing from Sumatran, Malaysian, Sabah, and Sarawak visual references.
Project Index5 entries
Margastua Studios
Worked as a junior developer for around a year, contributing to production-facing game development and sharpening the discipline needed to ship work inside a team.
Junior Developer
Surna
Combat and RPG prototyping in Unreal with a souls-like feel, used to explore combat, movement, atmosphere, and a game world representing the Nusantara region and your own culture.
Watch prototype
Perception Puzzle Prototype
A puzzle concept built around subliminal or Portal-like object logic, where visibility and existence shift depending on where the player is looking.
Watch concept
Environment Design Study
Environment and level design inspired by Malaysian, Sumatran, Sabah, and Sarawak references, used to build stronger regional texture into game spaces.
Watch environment passECG Gaming
Additional game-adjacent work and community involvement grouped under ECG Gaming, reinforcing that games are not just a hobby lane but a continuing part of your identity.
Leadership
A lot of the work has happened in rooms full of people, not just inside projects.
Leadership, committees, educational roles, and awards matter here because they show initiative, trust, and the ability to carry responsibility in public.
This chapter replaces the old photography lane because it speaks more directly to the structure of your site. It shows how often you have stepped into organising, teaching, representing, supporting, and leading rather than staying narrowly inside individual technical output.
- Student Club Executive Award 2025
- Campus Consultancy Leadership Award
- Epic Games Unreal Engine Educator
Project Index5 entries
Student Club Executive Award
Recognition for student club executive work, reinforcing that leadership has been a sustained part of your university involvement rather than a side note.
Campus Consultancy Leadership Award
Leadership recognition connected to campus consultancy work, useful in the site as proof that organisational impact has been externally noticed too.
Josh Farr leadership award
Unreal Engine Educator
Recognition as an Unreal Engine educator, which supports the broader narrative that you do not just build in game engines but also teach and translate them for others.
Epic Games
Formerly at Griffith
Held multiple society roles at Griffith spanning committee, ambassador, secretary, and social media responsibilities across biomedical and Muslim student organisations.
GUBSA committee / ambassador / social media, GUMSA secretary, GAMA committee
Formerly at UQ
Participation at UQ across computing and debating spaces, showing a mix of technical and communication-oriented communities even before the later leadership roles.
UQCS member, UQ Debating member
Impact
The work matters more when it is useful to someone besides me.
Volunteering, tutoring, outreach, and teaching are part of the site because they show a pattern: building things is one lane, but helping people learn or recover is another.
This chapter should feel human and direct. It connects the technical identity to service, communication, and teaching. It also works as an implicit advertisement for tutoring because it shows that teaching is already part of the way you work.
- Flood relief volunteer for Al Khaadem
- Curiocity World Science Festival volunteer
- Tutoring in bio + math
- Former game design teaching
Project Index4 entries
Al Khaadem Flood Relief
Hands-on flood relief volunteering in Malaysia through Al Khaadem, adding a real-world service dimension to the broader story of leadership and responsibility.
Curiocity World Science Festival
Volunteered at Curiocity World Science Festival, reinforcing the education and public-engagement side of your work.
IRO Gold Coast
Volunteered with IRO Gold Coast as a member and as part of the judging committee for selected competitions.
Member and judging committee
Tutoring + Game Design Teaching
Tutor subjects across biology and mathematics, and previously taught game design. This should read as an invitation: if someone needs support learning difficult concepts, you are already experienced at doing that.
Education
A broad foundation that converged into engineering.
The academic story is not linear, and that is part of the value. It shows range, adaptation, and a willingness to redirect toward the work that fits best.
Foundation Science at UQ, Biomedical Science at Griffith, and your current QUT Engineering path create a profile that is broader than a standard engineering story. The site should frame that as range converging into direction, not as confusion.
- Foundation Science at UQ
- Biomedical Science at Griffith
- Current QUT Engineering bachelors
Project Index3 entries
University of Queensland
Built the early science foundation here, which still supports the wider technical and educational range across the rest of the site.
Foundation Science, individual courses
Griffith University
Time at Griffith broadened the scientific and community dimension of your background before the shift more decisively toward engineering.
Biomedical Science
Queensland University of Technology
Current engineering study at QUT, where the earlier mix of science, technology, games, and systems thinking now has a clearer long-term home.
Engineering bachelors
Contact
Engineering work, creative tech, tutoring, and odd ambitious builds all belong in the same inbox.
The close should feel open-ended and practical: hiring, collaboration, tutoring, teaching, prototypes, and experiments are all valid reasons to reach out.
Replace the placeholders here with your real links, but keep the tone broad. This is not just for engineering recruiters. It should also invite tutoring enquiries, creative collaborations, game work, and people interested in weird prototypes.