Bridgetown → Tampa
Micaiah
Bartlett
Electrical engineer from Barbados. I build robotics and sensing systems — and study why the technology that works elsewhere so rarely takes root at home.
What I work on
Three tracks, one question.
How does a small country get from importing technology to actually running it — the hardware, the people, and the policy that decides whether either one lasts?
Engineering
Robotics and sensing, from underwater perception research to safety-critical circuit design for a Formula SAE car.
- ROS2 · Linux · C
- Altium · KiCAD · LTspice
- ESP32 · Jetson Orin · MATLAB
Technology & development policy
Researching what blocks technology adoption in small island developing states, and what a working talent pipeline would take.
- World Bank Youth Summit delegate, 2026
- Literature review in progress, 2026–
- Caribbean ICT Youth Network
Building
Started a hardware company in Barbados at 16 and shipped a product line from a factory in China. Now building the on-ramp for other Caribbean students.
- Bartlett Tech, 2020–2025
- CariSTEM
- Robotics coaching, BJRC
Selected work
Recent
uScenes: a multimodal RGB and 3D sonar dataset
Co-author on a dataset paper for underwater robot perception, accepted as a poster at IEEE OCEANS 2026 in Monterey. Built during two years in the Embodied Robotics and Autonomy Lab.
Barriers to technology adoption in small island states
An independent literature review, motivated by Barbados and scoped across SIDS, on why adoption stalls after the equipment arrives.
Brake system plausibility device — Bulls Racing
Designed a safety-critical circuit for USF’s Formula SAE car: simulation in LTspice through to an Altium board.
Writing
I write about engineering school, building things in the Caribbean, and what I get wrong along the way.
Four years of notes, in public.
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