About / Evan Le

I like the part where an idea has to survive contact with hardware.

My work moves between CAD, fabrication, physics, and the fast iteration that competitive robotics demands.

01 / Current work

Team 1516A, Panda, and Anvil.

I am the 2025–2027 Captain and Lead Designer of Robotics Team 1516A. I help set technical direction and move mechanisms from first CAD layout to tested hardware.

Outside the team, I work on open-source machines including the Panda printer platform and Anvil toolhead. I care most about packaging, iteration, and learning which assumptions fail once a design becomes physical.

02 / Areas

What I actually work on.

01 Mechanical design
System architecture and CAD for competitive robots and machines.
02 Fabrication
FDM printing, hardware prototypes, and parts designed to be revised.
03 Performance
Using physics to reason about mechanical efficiency, speed, and reliability.
04 Team leadership
Technical roadmaps, design reviews, and execution for Team 1516A.

03 / Connect

Working on a robot, printer, or strange mechanical problem?

GitHub is the best place to see what I am building and where the work currently stands.