During the first month of my summer vacation I had an opportunity to visit the DLR – Deutches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (i.e. German Aerospace Centre) at Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich in Germany. The DLR is a branch of the European Space Agency (ESA). But before I proceed any further, a little
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Quark 2016 – A Cosmic Odyssey Days of festival: 5th, 6th & 7th February 2016 I participated in Line Following, Roborace and, for the first time, Open Showcase! RoboRace Objective: Design & build a remote controlled all-terrain racer that can traverse any given path with obstacles like rocks, sand, slopes, uneven
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Techfest 2015! IIT Bombay’s most awaited techfest was held last month from 26th to 28th December. I participated in Maze Runner, a competition which was part of an event called Technovoltz. The participants had to build an autonomous robot which could follow a white line and keep track of directions while traversing the maze. The
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During the last week of my Diwali vacations, I had the wonderful opportunity to be part of Project GEIT (Goans Empowered with Information Technology) and teach Scratch programming as a volunteer instructor to students at 3 village schools. The project was divided into 10-day camps conducted at the following schools: Azmane High
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Three weeks back, I received a message from my mentor, Mr. Pranav Pai Vernekar (Founder of Inventrom) saying that he would be going to a conference in Bangalore. The conference was being organized by UNICOM. The theme was: ‘Internet of Things: Link Your World’ and it was part of India
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This is a follow-up to my previous tutorial Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi – 1. (If you’re not familiar with web servers, PHP coding and the basic concepts of IOT, you should probably go through part 1 first.) In the previous tutorial, we set up an Apache 2 web server
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