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Students work late at night in a rooftop satellite ground station, with a motorized antenna tracking a CubeSat above the city.

May 23, 2026

Three Months Inside a Satellite Ground Station

Three months around BRAC University’s BRAC Onnesha satellite ground station, learning RF, helping where I could, and sleeping in the lab.

A low-profile line-following robot races through a competition track while students watch and cheer from around the arena.

May 16, 2026

One Last Local Competition

How our BRAC University robotics teams built two line followers, returned to DUET, and finally won the local competition we had avoided.

A student watches a line-following robot and a battle-damaged fighter bot at robotics competitions in Dhaka, reflecting the fear of losing in public.

May 9, 2026

The Fear of Losing

How failures at robotics competitions in MIST and North South University made me fear losing in public, until my students pushed me back.

A student moves between graphic design, event planning, club logistics, recruitment software, and robotics work inside the Robotics Club of BRAC University.

May 2, 2026

Life Beyond the Robots at ROBU

How moving through Creative, Events, Logistics, HR, and R&D taught me how the Robotics Club of BRAC University actually worked.

Students learn hands-on robotics with Arduino boards, sensors, motors, and practice tracks during a workshop at BRAC University.

April 25, 2026

Learning Robotics by Teaching It

How the Robotics Club of BRAC University made learning robotics affordable, practical, and fun by removing barriers for curious students.

A friendly student-built robot with tank-style tracks waves at a university technology exhibition, with a campus, engineering projects, and travel items in the background.

April 18, 2026

The Robot That Took Me to India

How BRAC University’s WALL-E robot took me from a Dhaka lab to Techkriti at IIT Kanpur, through a rushed visa and an unexpected journey.

A tidy robotics workspace with an Arduino, breadboard, sensors, wires, a small tracked robot, and a notebook illustrating the journey from learning and experimentation to building and teaching robotics.

April 11, 2026

The Free Workshop That Started Everything

How a free workshop gave me access to robotics, introduced me to Hirok, and led me from learning Arduino to teaching others.

A young software engineer planning several unfinished projects at a desk, surrounded by website monitoring dashboards, crypto charts, a meal-count display, and system architecture sketches.

April 4, 2026

When Good Engineering Stops You From Shipping

How thinking too far ahead helped me at work but kept several personal projects from reaching real users.

3D-rendered illustration of a dark-haired engineer pointing at a whiteboard system-architecture diagram with a cityscape visible through the window

April 2, 2026

Learning to Design Maintainable Software

How better teams, shared frameworks, and difficult systems taught me to design software that could keep changing.

3D-rendered illustration of a gray-haired engineer sitting on a desk in thought, in front of a whiteboard system-architecture diagram, with a shipping yard visible through the window

March 26, 2026

I Started as a Senior Engineer by Accident

How I began with a senior title, junior knowledge, and enough responsibility to discover why I needed real mentorship.

A desk with programming books, a notebook sketching an idea-build-learn loop, a laptop showing code, and a small robotics kit, with a hand-drawn diagram on the wall showing the path from graphic design to software engineering.

March 19, 2026

Learning to Build

How curiosity led me from graphic design and freelancing to web development, robotics, and my first software engineering job.

A laptop displaying an image gallery interface, surrounded by illustrated icons representing search, performance, and responsive design.

March 12, 2026

How to Build a Portfolio for Better Online Visibility

A practical guide to making a portfolio discoverable by search engines without sacrificing design, speed, or usability.

A laptop on a desk displaying Adnan Sabbir's portfolio homepage at sunset, next to a coffee mug reading 'Progress > Perfection' and a notebook with a project plan checklist.

March 5, 2026

How I Finally Built My Portfolio

After years of unfinished attempts, I changed what I expected from my portfolio and finally built a version I could publish.