Melonbotics
FTC robotics parts business I founded to create the kind of electronics and robot hardware I wanted as a competitor.
View case studyMechanical engineering student · product builder
I build things.
I’m Jack Wilson: a mechanical engineering student, FIRST Robotics Lead Mentor, and founder of Melonbotics. My work moves between CAD, machining, electronics, software, and the commercial decisions that turn prototypes into products.
01 / Selected case studies
Selected work
Robots, products, machining systems, and software—each built around a real constraint and documented as a full case study.
CNC Machining & Fixtures
Robotics machining work from my Barker Lead Robotics Mentor role, making student-designed parts manufacturable and competition-ready.
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The Road to Champs
From a blank page to Australian national champions. Then back to a blank page for the FIRST Championship in Houston.
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DESN1000 Underwater ROV
A first-year design project to build an underwater ROV that could retrieve and move a PVC "nuclear fuel rod" from the pool floor.
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Super Servo
The product that started Melonbotics, then evolved into a mature, tested solution.
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LogVue
A desktop app that turns FTC Control Hub logs into a searchable, session-based archive for competition and workshop debugging.
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Through Bore Encoder
A robotics encoder designed around easier mounting and absolute positioning support.
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2020 FTC National Champion Robot
A competition robot I designed as a student of FTC team 11148 Barker Greybacks, which won NSW undefeated, and won the Australian National Championship.
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STM32 Odometry Computer
An embedded robotics board concept for improving FTC field position estimation with better heading data and faster odometry updates.
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Early Projects
An Arduino Bluetooth RGB LED controller I built on perfboard while I was in primary school.
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Engineering that leaves the screen.
I study mechanical engineering at UNSW and spend most of my time turning ideas into working products and systems. Through Melonbotics, I develop and ship my own hardware, handling everything from sourcing and manufacturing to fulfilment and customer support.
At Barker College, I lead the mentoring team for its competitive robotics program, guiding students from robot architecture and CAD through software, manufacturing and the inevitable debugging between a model and a machine that has to perform. I’m most interested in startups where hardware constraints shape both the product and the business.
Barker College · FIRST Robotics
Lead Robotics Mentor
Lead technical implementation in mechanical design, Java software and CNC manufacturing across Barker’s FTC and FRC programs. Own engineering strategy, scheduling, procurement and competition delivery at the program level.
Melonbotics
Founder
Solo-founded and operate a robotics parts business serving the international FIRST Tech Challenge market across product design, sourcing, pricing, fulfilment, and customer support.
Sunswift Racing
Chassis and Bodywork Engineer
Contributed to chassis and bodywork design in UNSW’s high-performance solar vehicle team, working through technical decisions and build constraints in a fast-moving team environment.
03 / Contact
Have a difficult problem?
I’m always interested in robotics, hardware products, manufacturing, and ambitious student engineering.
Jack Wilson · Sydney, Australia · 2026