Saturday, October 11, 2008

DRead it or Dump it







Iron Maiden the father of all bands ,hits with EDDY .Tne  character they use for promotion of their band, its too stunning and electric that you simply get overwhelmed just by the sight of it ...check sum of the EDDY's ultimate poses....and folks keep rocking~~

for more on iron maiden and eddy...

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

MURphy loves me...I LOve Robhatah







The second day at IIT early in the morning , I was awakened by a roar of machines from outside and when I rushed to see what was happening then I found some Army vehicles making their way into the grounds ,later I was informed that INDIAN ARMY,DRDO LABS are together conducting a Missile and state of art weapon exibition of Tankers, and recently devoloped Air- Air , Air-Land and laser operated missiles, then adrenaline was pumped in my nerves and I was out to watch them within 5 minutes,they were awsome and I thought why I was not in the Army
(should have tried rite??) I was awestuck by the performance of soldiers.
Then, comes our event .It was actually scheduled at 9 am ,so we were waiting for our team mates to come but God !!the clock was just ticking and no sign of them. Suddenly it was 2 pm and still no signs of these people, we rushed to the event spot and were eagerly waiting for them finally they arrived at around 5:30 pm and the event was to end at 6pm ,we reqested the judges as we had a genuine reason the car tyre got punctured 3 times?? you know what i mean 3 times!!!!
finally they were like very impressed by the model and every one was posing for pics with our model , but they said they couldn't help as we were late , so then I thought "MURPHY LOVES ME"
we were offered loadz of sympathy, and appreciation but I couldn't understand why they couldn't extend the event for just 10 minutes?ours was the only proper engineered design amonst all, all the others were just wobbling and it was merely like a science fair, rather than a techfest of a prestigious institution ,then we were given some letter of appreciation to pacify but we rejected them( later they were given at hospitality desks) then we attended the rocking show
from NUS singapore ROBHATAH robots which dance, play and communicate
It was the most amazing show ,Robots were performing bycycle kicks, and dancing to the tune of Dhoom machale audience were chanting ONCE MORE ..ONCE MORE...while the bots were busy dancing balancing on one leg with perfect synchronysm if you are interested in these amazing humanoid bots then visit http://www.revobot.com/ .






chennai...IIT MADRAS.....




Last week I was in chennai , for the IIT Madras techfest SHAASTRA ....to present a robot.
firstly, two of us have gone to chennai., later two of my team mates came to chennai with a robot...mind you its not a bot made of wood , aluminium,thermacol,or any simple..student made product it is a high end industrial bot made of carbon steel I mean to say a bot which can be directly used in industry,or can directly be used for application purpose and its not a prototype
We, ( Dhawal my friend and me) started on 2 october from Manipal to Chennai, our train was scheduled around 9:30pm and we reached the station at 9:27pm we weren't sure if our tickets were confirmed because just the previous day they were waitlisted at around 31.but miraculously our seats were confirmed.
then, we entered into the train and it slowly, embraced three states (karnataka,kerala,tamilnadu) and finally reached chennai, as we were about to reach we thought of having idli sambar ( tamil nadu special) but when tried to take a piece of idli i realised it was not idli..but a deadly ,puddly rubber so somehow tried to chew the rubber..
got down at the station, and called my friend Chakri @ IIT and enquired the way to come, then as he told us we went to the Park lane local train station ,after waiting for a long time observing all tamil thambis then arrived the train like a jet ,seriously they are using electric traction of 25kv

I was taken aback by the precise electrical system design in the stations and the proper switch gear protection ,it just stops hardly for 1 minute and picks up a speed of around 60-70kmph in less than 1 miute and there are stations for every 200m ,the only disadvantage is the stations are located somewhere remotedly you have to search for them.

soon we were in the mind boggling campus of IIT M there we had the sponsorers welcoming us with their banners google, caterpillar,polaris,renault nissan,vestas, to name a few..we immediatly settled in the last row of the in campus bus and got down at Ganga hostel and adjusted ourselves in my friends room. the rooms were really bad , I can say MIT rooms are far better than theirs,so that day we had to get some equipment ready for the project and we were out of the campus to Egmore soon we were looted by a tamil thambi, by saying "ennaa appa istha duram ikkadilla" he looted 50 rupees for 3 km then we decided what might matter in the struggle never travel by auto in chennai

The local train zoomed us to Egmore and we virtually hit black and blue by the response of the people there when we asked for a particular address it took us 2 hours to just go to a street behind the one we were standing,but you know Murphy always has something in store for us ,so this time the shop was closed after the struggle so we were forced to return back to the pavillion ,then we found some Chettinand restaurant and we then recollected that its famous in Chennai and ordered some really good sounding chicken but were frustrated when he brought the dish which tasted like crap,we then thought " its not Chettinand it is chetta annand"..returned to the campus..and tried to sleep sometime while having war with the mosquitoes with brains( the IIT walaaa mosquitoes)