I build things
that fly.
Solid rocket motors, flight computers, thrust vector control and aircraft. Every project here failed at least once before it worked. This is the record of both.
About me
Built, broken, rebuilt
I'm Dhyey. I design, build and fly rockets, and I learn mostly by getting things wrong first.
It started in a field in Surat, watching a model rocket leave the ground and disappear in seconds. Years later I watched Falcon 9 land for the first time and wanted to understand every part of how a system that big could fly and come back down. Since then I have built solid rocket motors, flight computers, aircraft and a CubeSat prototype, first in India and now in the UK.
Almost everything I have built failed before it worked. My first rocket never left the pad when its motor failed, which pushed me back to first principles and six motor iterations later to a CNC-machined KNSB motor producing over 200 N. My first RC plane never flew at 13. I rebuilt it at 16 using the lift equation and thrust-to-weight sizing from HL Physics and Maths, and it flew. The difference was not effort, it was understanding.
Right now I am building a finless rocket stabilised by thrust vector control, tuning its PID controller in a Simulink model before flight, and contributing to a research project comparing five propellant formulations through static-fire testing.
What I enjoy most is the full loop: turning maths and physics into hardware, testing it for real, and using the data to make the next version better. Long term, I want to build my own company in rocketry and space technology.
