About

My name is Aidan Busby. I am a 17 year old Junior at West Seattle High School. This website is a documentation of some of my STEM-related ventures. I have a variety of interests, but my greatest ones are mathematics, physics, and engineering. I also have a passion for Spanish and music, but these are not the focus of this website.

Tesla Coils

Currently, I have been focused/refocused on programming and electrical engineering. I have built a couple of Tesla coils, and those are fun, but I think I've come to the realization that while high voltage electronics are arguable super badass, they aren't really my passion per se. My first real coil I started working on the end of sophomore year- I can get some pretty good arcs (like 8 inches), but the primary coil is pretty badly designed- I intend to make a new one when I can find a weekend where I don't have five hours of APUSH homework to deal with.

Rockets

Ive also been into rockets - I'm a member of the rocketry club at my school, and was the lead programmer of our active control system for the 2025 American Rocketry Challenge.

Programming

One of my recurring interests has been programming. In middle school, I spent a fair amount of time learning how to program in C- still my favorite language, but I've always had a problem where I will start a project, then fail to finish it. Its also hard to find time to program sometimes, especially when you have a ton of homework. Some of my notable projects include a 6502 emulator I wrote in C in middle school and a super buggy encrypted messenger (also need to finish this one. I call it Semphore Messenger, you can find it on my github here).

Math

I've had a passion for math for a while now. I do like attending local math competitions, but I joined kind of late in the game and don't focus on it as much as my other activities- I do love learning about it and applying it, however, but I like to be able to build things (which is why computer science is so appealing to me.)