Advaith Bala

Student at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

I am a Junior at UIUC studying Computer Engineering.

My interests are in the areas of Computer Systems Engineering, Computer Architecture, SOC Design and Computer Vision.

In my free time, I enjoy songwriting and creating music for Piano and Guitar.

FPGA Game Development: ”Duck Hunt” with Wii remote

• Used FPGA with NIOS II as SoC to generate VGA signals, wrote custom Wii Remote hardware drivers
• Wrote a novel Python-to-SystemVerilog graphical library to convert GIF images to animated VGA game sprites
• Created robust Game Difficulty AI powered by random number seed generated by user input

MIDI Controlled Theremin

• Built an analog theremin instrument from scratch and created 3D-printed robotic arm to play it
• Formulated python code that parses a MIDI file to an array that maps music notes to servo motor angles