For those who are not acquainted with the term “Erasmus”, it is a culture in Europe for organizing student exchanges between Universities. Although in the beginning it started with exchanges among European universities, it has extended all around the world with students from Non-European countries coming to Europe for studying and vice-versa. Ask any student … Continue reading My European Venture: Erasmus
From December 7th to 9th, we showed our college what we could do if we join hands together. Our Student Social Responsibility Projects turned into a celebration when we decided to club all our projects into a single full-fledged event. Mechanical Department Association “Lakshya” joined hands with Corporate and Industry Relations (CIR) department of our … Continue reading Prayana ’12 – A project collaboration
We made an RC boat for participating in a National Level tech fest conducted by College of Engineering, Trivandrum. It took us a few days of work scrambling, through the junk in the Mechanical Workshop of our college, to get the boat ready. Using the same idea used in the acceleration sensor of cars, we … Continue reading Our little RC boat!
Can a single conference bring about huge changes? Well, this one sure has and sure will. ACWR 2011 was an International conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief held at our campus (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri) from December 18th to 21st. The first thoughts on holding such a conference first came from the mind of … Continue reading ACWR 2011 – International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief
In my previous post, I explained some basic concepts about GPS, how it works, how information is encrypted into it and how to understand the code that we receive through it etc. But always to receive these codes, sit down and decrypt it ourselves will be a tedious task. If we have a GPS module … Continue reading Extracting GPS info using Arduino
Basic intro to how GPS works: A GPS module receives data from different satellites(24 satellites are orbiting the earth for this purpose). GPS calculates the distance between the receiver and the position of three or more satellites to zero in on the position of the receiver. This is a simple way of explaining how a … Continue reading Interpreting GPS
Guidelines to be a better Engineer or a better professional: Improve writing: Starting a new Blog would be a great way to do this. You can use either WordPress or Blogger for creating your own Weblog. Most of us will have a starting trouble. (It took me two months to publish a blog post after … Continue reading Engineering Newbies: Read this and get started!
Arduino is the first of it’s kind – An open-source electronics prototyping platform fit for artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone who would like to mess with electronics and make some interactive environments or objects. Arduino has been developed in Italy by the Arduino Team: Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe, Gianluca Martino, and David Mellis. … Continue reading Arduino: A new platform
My first formal introduction to Aeronautics came with a workshop that was conducted at the end of my 2nd semester at ASE. I’ve been hearing about a person, Prabodh Sangiorgio a.k.a. Marko Sangiorgio from Italy who has been working in an airline company and visits our ashram (M.A.Math) every year, when he conducts workshops related … Continue reading An Italian Touch to My Aero Intro!
PICTRIS’11 The time we spent during the holidays with the seniors had proved to be real fruitful. They were really helpful and informed us about anything useful happening around the college. This is how I and Athul came to know of the PICTRIS’11 workshop on PIC microcontrollers. After discussing with several faculties whether we, being … Continue reading The PIC Experience! – Part Two
Everyday Mischief 