Jacob Samaras

Jacob Samaras

B.S. Aerospace EngineeringEmbry-RiddleClass of 2030

I like getting hands-on, asking questions, and learning from the people around me.

I’m studying aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle and looking for an aerospace or defense internship. My experience includes paid manufacturing work, field testing a campus navigation app, and more than two years working on a live Roblox game.

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CASBE Industries

Precision tube fabrication for aerospace, defense, medical, and utility customers.

My engineering teacher selected me as one of four students for a paid summer 2025 internship at CASBE. My design work was a SolidWorks concept for a table and mount for a robotic arm; I considered its footprint, reach, stability, and modular construction.

I also observed tube bending and coiling, laser engraving, robotic-arm operation, and parts cleaning, packing, and labeling. I watched CNC demonstrations; I did not operate the machines.

Shop work

Reference images from the CASBE Industries website.

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CASBE Industries website

ERAU Waypoint

A campus navigation tool shaped around the walkways and entrances I use every day.

Waypoint began as a fix for my own daily routine: finding a building and choosing a walk between classes. I surveyed entrances and tested routes, compass behavior, and permissions on my iPhone. Claude wrote the code from my requirements and feedback; I took each version back outside to test it.

  • 24 iterations
  • Entrances surveyed in person
  • Field-tested on iPhone

The screen I open between classes: what is next, which room it is in, and how long until I need to be there.

The map draws 50 campus buildings, roads, and footpaths from OpenStreetMap's walkway network. Routes follow real walkways and stay pinned until I clear them. My marker uses GPS course while walking and the magnetometer while standing still.

Each day's classes and meals in order, with the room beside every class.

Built for my schedule and used daily as an iPhone home-screen PWA. Location, compass, and install-only permissions limit the desktop experience.

Open Waypoint

Go Mining

A live Roblox game I joined as a moderator and later came to own.

I joined as a moderator and eventually became owner. Over 2+ years, I coordinated developers and assets, helped introduce an event system, and made original ores, ability effects, and event environments such as Wintyrhearth.

I also assembled update logs and contribute to a rewrite focused on smoother play, an improved map, and custom in-game music.

More about my contribution

The game combines RNG and incremental mining: pickaxe recipes, luck, abilities, gears, and rare ore variants. My visual work includes mutated and radiant ores, event VFX, map recoloring direction, materials, update assets, and reward effects. I also helped coordinate custom pets.

Genre
RNG and incremental mining game
Role
Moderator, trial developer, developer, ownerOver 2+ years
Focus
Ore design, ability VFX, and pickaxe abilities
Visits
1.5M+ accumulated
Community
2,795 Discord members

Visit and community figures are project-wide totals.

Open Go Mining on Roblox

Ore & VFX work

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Backrooms Level Map

A graph map built from the levels I explored in Backrooms Redacted.

I was already recording how levels connect, where exits lead, and what to watch for. I worked with Claude to turn that process into a graph mapper, choosing its fields and navigation, then adding the levels I had mapped to the save file. The links below open the tool and its dataset.

Open the live level map Download mapped level data

Level graph overview5 screenshots

Pneumatic T-Shirt Launcher

Senior-year build: a remote-fired cannon on a drivable VEX base.

Its best launch reached 125+ feet. I built the barrel from 180 PSI-rated Schedule 80 PVC and operated the chamber at around 100–110 PSI. A remote receiver triggers the solenoid valve, releasing the pressurized air into the barrel.

Build details

A VEX brain controls the drive motors. Vertical and angled supports cradle the launcher at a fixed angle, with the cannon and power supply zip-tied to the frame.

The PVC-glued assembly has a capped chamber and metal fill valve, pressurized by a bike pump. A normally-closed solenoid releases the chamber's air through a wider tube into the barrel. Two paper towels behind the shirt act as wadding, filling the barrel gap to reduce air leakage.

  • 125+ ft best launch
  • Schedule 80 PVC, 180 PSI rated
  • Remote-fired, drivable VEX base
  • Paper-towel wadding seals the bore

Full rig on its VEX base2 photos

Video of launch

Contact

I’m looking for an aerospace or defense internship where I can contribute to hands-on engineering work and learn from the team. Ask me about CASBE, Waypoint, Go Mining, or the launcher. Text is the best way to reach me.

Text (preferred)(760) 573-1394 School emailSAMARAJ1@my.erau.edu Personal emailjacobsamaras3@gmail.com ResumeOpen PDF GitHubgithub.com/js3-eng LinkedInJacob Samaras
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