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RoboTRIx - Day 2

Well, same as day one, theory part was boring, so I will start from the time we got the kit. It had

1. DC Motor 45 rpm
2. DC Motor 400rpm
3. Gears
4. And other pre-casted structures of mild steel
5. Thin rods
6. Bearings, bolts, nuts, screws, etc.

We had to make a crane. On the top of the car we made the other day, we had to mount a crane system with two degrees of freedom.

They gave us the idea, but it was not as simple as the first day assembling. We had to make the arm move using a motor(45 rpm) and gear system.

And by using the 400rpm motor we had to make the collector move too. After a lot of hard work and thinking we finally managed to make our crane. We tested it, and of course it worked !

Have a look at our crane ! or should I call it a ROBOT ?

















So this was our two days workshop on robotics. I agree that what we made can be called a robot, but what I had thought was something like this ! (remember my perception in the beginning?)






I would like to share one more thing. While teaching the guy suddenly asked, " Is anyone's birthday today ? ", and yes it was A***** (girl) birthday !! Oh my God, how the hell did he know ?

We all sang happy birthday song for her. Its not over yet, he also gifted her a roboitcs T-shirt ! Cool na !!

The End


But not for Lokesh Harnal , he is busy in connecting our crane to the computer, using led, diodes, microcontroller, ics, resistor, capacitors, and other stuffs. He is making some circuits and will connect it to the computer's printer port and the crane.

Now if this happens, it will feel like a real ROBOT :)

RoboTRIx - Day 1

Govil arranged for a robotics workshop in our campus. He contacted some IITB graduates, who run some robotics institute .

Since it was the first technical 2 days workshop being organised in our college, many students were interested to attend it, although there was a huge registration fees.

Luckily on first come first serve basis I got the chance. ( or may be Govil is my good friend , and he was the incharge !! )

So lets begin the workshop :) But before starting let me tell you with what perception I attended this workshop. I joined this workshop only because my friends joined it, and more importantly Govil was involved. But once I got enrolled , I imagined a rough model of the robot, which I thought they would teach us to make. (will tell you later about this)

The lecture begins. For the first two hours, he kept talking about, what actually a robot is ?? It was an interative session, but I remained quiet, just listening to others. Next he moved on to mechanics, motion, FBD,wheels, etc. I didn't paid much attention, it was too boring!!

The real fun started after the tea break. They gave us (bhamri, dhruv, lokesh and me : we were divided in groups of four) a kit, and now it was our turn to make something! When we opened the pack , we found:

1. DC Motor 45 rpm (2)
2. Switch board

Preview

3. MS sheets
4. Wheel (4)
5. Screw driver
6. Spanner
7. Wires
8. Rubber strip
9. Nuts and bolts

And what we had to make was a car . They gave us some idea about the circuit connections and the final model. It was easy, we only had to assemble the things. "Oh! God we paid RS. 1450 for this !! ".

The two DC motors had to be connected to the rear wheel, and then connected to the switch in parallel, so simple !! Then run it by a 12V dc source.



Here is the final model of what we had made in the first day of workshop. We can run the car backward, front and turn it using the switches.
Have a look!




And he concluded the day by promosing us to give some more kit the next day.

And one more thing , before this day, I have never sat in a LT (lecture theater) continously for such long hours. (3hrs + 3hrs). Created a record :)

Zephyr

Well I had put the above picture on my orkut profile, but a friend suggested me to change it, because , "it looks too feminine". So I thought of putting this here, ( b'cos very few people visit this blog !)

Ok. Here's the story of three days Zephyr. As I had already predicted; this time it was bigger, more fun , and very competitive !! The zephyr heat was all around in the campus air. And the hostel T-shirts, Posters, Banners, Flags added more to it.

Well , I am interested in writing only about those events in which, I took part :)

Face Painting, Fash P, Sketching , and Cartoon/Caricature making.

Lets forget about face painting, I am not going to take part in it any more !! (not frustated , just fed up )


CARTOON/CARICATURE

We had to make a cartoon or caricature showing any famous world incident (topic was given on the spot). I choosed the easiest one, WTC Attack !!

Since I am not good in making caricatures and cartoons, so just before the competion, I had gone through some of the caricatures in the newspaper and internet, including Osama and Bush, Wow !!

gaurav, me, and bipin

So it was very easy for me to draw their caricatures, and to draw a plane hitting a tall building is a childs play!!.

Well, I didn't get any prize though :(
May be because I made an Australian flag instead of American !!


SPOT SKETCHING : The topic was PEACE

I used a different concept ( not the regular piegon and globe thing ). In fact, I made "my own" sketch.

At my place ( Deoghar, Jharkhand ) there is a famous temple of Lord Shiva. Its full of devotees all the year round. And its always very noisy (bells, mantras , hawans, usual temple fuss , etc )

me and bipin (he shared the first prize with Neha)

But whenever I visit there, I use to sit up at my favourite palce , and try to connect myself to my soul. I find it really very peaceful, and I feel I am closer to myself !

Even though there is so much of noise , but I find eternal peace there, which is obviously greater than rest all other peace (or atleast I think so ! ). I can sit there for hours !! and I do.

So this was the concept. A boy sitting, huge bells, temples, lot of people, pandits, the flower sellers, the vendors , hawan spot, etc. And I had also explained the sketch .

Though I didn't get any prize but I enjoyed drawing "myself" :)

FASH P : Our theme was ROCK/PUNK

It was easy , we only needed lots of body art, chains, rings, and other accessories. And our presentation style was good. Lots of head banging and other actions !!


do I look like the T-shirt guy ??


Upneet -- the guitarist


Pophali - the guitarist


Lokesh -- the vocalist


ganesh -- the guitarist


Avinash -- the cool rap guy


Dhruv -- look at his face !!

Others were Adi and Sushowan -- the drummer, Gaurav and Kushal -- the vocalist and Soumyadeep -- the guitarist. Pictures not put, b'cos of their personal reasons.

And thank God , we got the second prize !!

So this was the end of Zephyr, and I will always remember one thing about it, which I can't write b'cos of my personal reasons :)

Feel THE Heat

U can only desire, but we have the FIRE.
Yes, only two days left for our inter hostel competions ZEPHYR !

This time its gonna be more fun than ever, a complete new 2006 batch. We have seen us, our senior, and now lets see what our juniors have to show !!

And for no special reason, but the junta is much more enthusiastic this time; CHEERS!!

I may participate in some of the events, but this time I would rather prefer to be a audience than a participant.

Will keep updating about the events.

Heres' the T-Shirt I , Ankit Bhamri, and Pophali designed for our hostel , and "BITS" says ours' the best ! (obviously in comparision with other hostel T-shirts)

P.S. No offence intented.

FRONT

BACK

blood donation camp

I donated my precious 300ml of pure blood (B+).

have a look

Fashion Show

Today was the end of Zaphaer (intra college function). It concluded with treasure hunt, karaoke, dance competition, tale of two tunes and fashion show. So it was a very busy day.

There is nothing to mention about treasure hunt. My group didn’t win, but at least we came in the first forty teams.

Aditya is the hero of karaoke. All of we friends gathered in auditorium to cheer up Adi and group. They were awesome, really good. The song was ‘Channa Ve Ghar Aaja Ve…’. The only team which could have defeated us was GH3. Shaoni and group were too good. They were perfect, and in between we were confused if they are playing the original song.

But as usual the prizes were already fixed. Our hostel didn’t get even the third prize,

Same was the case with the dance competition, our hostel was awesome and all admitted it, yet we were not given any prize. Abhinav, a good friend of mine was also dancing and he was the best in his expressions and he danced very well. Soumya deep too showed his ‘jalwa’ on stage. Both of them performed well.

The last part of Zaphaer was the fashion show, and our hostel was the last to present it. All the participants were too good. We never expected that the competition will be so tough. The GH1 girls were definitely No.1.

From our hostel, me, Lokesh, Gaurav, Bhamri, Adi, Ashok, Dhruv, Soumyadeep, Avinash, Pranjal, Prannoy, and Punnet took part. Punnet did compering and rests all ramp walk.

I have decided the dresses. It was nothing special, I used what ever we had, and nothing on rent or new purchase. The presentation style was by Adi, he had done modeling before and he is well aware about it.

The tattoo expert, Jazzy, designed and painted awesome tattoos on Bhamri and Adi’s body. I painted Soumya’s t-shirt, and me and Lokesh painted the flag which was carried by Prannoy and Pranjal.

Ours was a nice presentation, yet we didn’t get any prize. I came to know that we were fourth, (ours was 59 points and the third was 61 and no one in between). This too was unfair in my point of view. Gh2 girls were not better than us, yet they got a prize. And the third prize winner ‘boy’s hostel 2’, they looked more like they are participating in a fancy dress competition.

Yet it was a great experience, we all enjoyed it. It was fun and I have few good memories to cherish later, in the form of some videos and photos.

But at least I got a third prize in ‘Sound of Silence’, in which one has to give his own dialogues for some movie clips.

Face painting

Days are going fine. Today was the face painting competition. It was exciting, although I didn’t get any prize. My model was Pranjal. Last night I had painted his face with poster colors, and made him look like a monster. This was just for practice but Pranjal had different plans.

At night, when the painting was completed, Pranjal thought of making someone afraid.

All of our friends were sleeping with their rooms locked. By chance Soumyadeep had left his door open. He was really unlucky. Pranjal slowly went to his room; Soumya was in sound sleep.

Pranjal opened Soumya’s both eyes forcefully, and then there was a huge cry. Oh God! It was pathetic. He literally cried and carried such expressions which we had never seen before. He was too much afraid. I interrupted other wise he would have fainted. This was crazy; Pranjal and I couldn’t control our laughter for hours.

The time was around 4a.m. We had one more theme to paint, but both of us were tired. So we slept. At 10a.m. we started again. This one was also good and we decided to finalize it for the competition.

The competition was organized in girls dining hall. On reaching there we came to know that any number of teams can participate form each hostel. Doesn’t matter, at least we were there. Then the next surprise, we were a given a theme there... Oh, what a shit! I didn’t know it was on the spot.

The theme was nature. Thank God it was not much difficult. I planned the concept and started painting. Every thing went fine.

While I was painting I heard some comments, may be from seniors, “At least this time juniors are going to win”, and may be pointing towards me. Some others too praised my face painting and said mine was the best. That of course brought a smile on both of ours face.

Everyone finished and then was the time to judge. I looked at the other participants. All were good and colorful. But I felt that we had a fairer chance, at least a third prize.

The respected judge judged too fast, she didn’t take even a minute. God! It was horrible. She didn’t even look at Pranjal for more than three seconds. Mind you three, not even four. Same was the case with others. There were no less then 10 contestant, and a minute? But she was the judge.

So the first second and the third prizes were announced and we were not there. We lost it.
Doesn’t matter much, I was happy as I had done well. May be the winners had done better.

Pranjal was bit frustrated, and said “It’s of no use, the prizes are already planned, it is fixed. There is nothing we can do about it”. “Alright, calm down.” said I; but I knew that it was unfair. You would have believed me if you were there.

At last what matters is that you participated, tried and you are happy.