360° object-capture rig
A motorized turntable and camera-elevation rig I designed, built, wired, and programmed end to end: it photographs an object from every angle automatically, turning hours of manual dataset work into an unattended process.
Maxime
Schmid
I design mechatronic hardware in 3D CAD, detail it for manufacturing, build and test prototypes, and solve the interfaces between mechanics, electronics and software.
Selected projects
Milling cutter with integrated cooling channels
An indexable milling cutter with internal coolant channels routed directly to each cutting edge: shaped with generative design, verified with CFD and FEM, and additively manufactured via LPBF.
Feature selection for industrial sensor data
A Python toolchain that benchmarks eleven feature-selection methods on real production data and picks the right one for each dataset, raising cluster validity from 0.20 to 0.90 on industrial screwdriving signals.
DIY body & paint conversion
A low-budget, DIY transformation of a Hyundai Coupé GK: body kit fitted, the whole car resprayed from silver to black by hand, and the result TÜV-approved for the road. Total budget: a few hundred euros and a lot of sandpaper.
DIY two-player arcade machine
A full-size, two-player arcade cabinet built by hand from wood, an old Samsung screen, a Raspberry Pi, two joysticks, and a suspicious number of illuminated buttons.
Other work
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Workshop projects
Hands-on fabrication and metalworking, including a welded steel go-kart frame with a combustion engine and a bicycle-cassette drivetrain.
Experience
Filics R&D, Robotics
- Drive technology and mechanical test systems
- Prototype development, validation and troubleshooting
Almato Software Engineer
- Backend systems and technical software using Go and Python
- Docker, CI/CD, monitoring and production systems
DATAGROUP Hardware & Software Prototyping
- Designed and built the automated 360° object-capture system
- Integrated mechanics, electronics and control software
About
I work in R&D at Filics, a Munich robotics startup, on drive technology and test systems. I hold a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, where I focused on methodical product development and technology management. My bachelor’s thesis, written with Fraunhofer IAO and the ISW and graded 1.3, is documented here.
My toolkit runs from CAD, FEM, CFD and generative design through additive and conventional manufacturing to Python, embedded control, and hands-on shop and lab work.
- Degree
- B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of Stuttgart
- Thesis
- With Fraunhofer IAO & ISW, grade 1.3 (≈ 3.8/4.0 US GPA)
- Currently
- R&D at Filics, Munich
Get in touch
Want my CV? Request it here and I’ll send it to your inbox, usually within a day. Prefer email? That works just as well:
maxime.schmid@online.de