Sandro Petrovski

Maize-Made Arcade

After encountering several roadblocks, we are excited to announce that the Maize-Made Arcade is fully assembled and functional! The only things left to complete are audio integrations, polishing the (mostly completed) games, and potentially adding a game or two. For the full project spec (how each component works) please see

Thinking Outside the Box: Rethinking the Useless Box Design

At what point should you go back to the drawing board and rethink your solution?

Maize-Made Arcade: A Custom Arcade Machine Project

Welcome to the golden age of arcade video games! In this article, we will introduce TauPau Engineering's latest project: the Maize-Made Arcade, a unique arcade machine built completely in-house – from design, to fabrication, to game development. All with a little touch of maize to pay homage to the University of

Digital Resume

Welcome back to TPE! This post will be a little out of the ordinary as it covers a pure software project and not one of the ongoing mechatronics projects (namely - The Useless Box), however I thought it may be an interesting addition those with an interest in web development

The Useless Box

After some deliberation, we selected the infamous "Useless Box" for TPE's first project. The rationale behind this choice consisted mostly of uncertainty about how we wanted to structure our project development pipeline, and what exactly each project would entail. We felt that choosing a fairly simple project would allow us

Welcome to the Project Logs

Welcome to TPE! Come along with us on our journey to develop interesting projects and learn while doing it.