Welcome
My name is Deniz Meral and I am an undergraduate student of Control and Automation Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. This site is a plain, straightforward record of my technical work: the control systems I study, the electronics I build, and the software that ties the two together.
My interest sits at the point where theory meets hardware. A transfer function is only useful once it is discretised, written into firmware, and made to drive a real actuator against real noise and real sensor lag. Most of what is documented on this site was built to close that gap — motor control, sensor conditioning, embedded firmware, industrial automation logic, and the simulation work that comes before any of it is trusted on hardware.
Areas of Work
| Area | Description |
|---|---|
| Control Systems | Classical and modern control: PID tuning, root locus, frequency response, state-space modelling, observers, and discrete-time implementation on microcontrollers. |
| Embedded Electronics | STM32 and AVR firmware in C, timer and interrupt driven peripherals, ADC sampling, PWM generation, and serial protocols (UART, I²C, SPI, CAN). |
| Industrial Automation | Ladder logic and structured text for PLCs, sensor and actuator interfacing, HMI/SCADA concepts, and safety-oriented sequence design. |
| Instrumentation | Signal conditioning, amplification and filtering for strain, temperature, current and pressure sensors; noise reduction and calibration procedures. |
| Robotics Software | ROS-based navigation and perception for an autonomous underwater vehicle, including simulation and synthetic data generation. |
Recent Updates
| Date | Entry |
|---|---|
| 2026–08–28 | Published this engineering edition of the site, separate from my game-development portfolio. |
| 2026–06–10 | Continued work with the ITU AUV Team on perception and simulation for the autonomous underwater vehicle. |
| 2026–03–22 | Extended the synthetic dataset generator to produce segmentation masks in addition to pose annotations. See the projects page. |
| 2025–11–05 | Added a containerised cloud resource automation tool to the project archive. |