Hello luggies, ROBOX - 09 is the annual event on Robotics conducted between 19-21 MARCH 2009 by the "cyborg engineers"(a tech club) comprised of staff and students of Kamban Engg College, Thiruvanamalai .The event showcased about 20 exhibits of Robo/automation module. The highlight of this event is most of the modules are build upon arduino development kit.More info on arduino ref www.arduino.cc. The arduino development kit is used for programming atmel mega8 mcu. To my knowledge majority of the contributors build the circuits all by themselves, coded the softwares, integrated them and exhibited. It is really fun and interesting to work with the team of Kamban Engg college, to add here, let me mention the vision and support of HOD of Dept of CSE Mr.Jyothish Kumar, and to mention the workmenship of the students who made the dream into reality.
There were exhibits of "water tank automation module", which will take roughly Rs 200/- make your overhead head tank keeping it full by automating your pump. The exhibit is more like a production module. There were many exhibits on robots, some of them to mention here is a balancing robo, which has 2 wheels and stands upright with the help of mcu board and a ping ultra sound sensor. The next exhibit is to mention is the ardrumo project,taking notes from (http://www.tinker.it/en/Tutorials/Ardrumo), The software were programmed by taking the signals from 6 peizo transducers and by polling method it is made to play a mp3 files(with different drums sounds). Though it performed, the student were advised to make a DBUS way of communication for better result instead of polling method. There were exhibits on traffic light automations. Raman and myself addressed the gathering, where Raaman took a class on Principles of "Free and Open source software ". Arulalan (ilugc) , engineers of Arunai engineering and myself worked on RAD, the ruby lang way of coding a micro processor(ref for RAD at http://rad.rubyforge.org). Arulalan made the tutorial on how to install Rad on ubuntu 8.04(he will be posting the document to the mailing list later). I wholeheartedly thank the college administration, students of kamban engineering college(one of them to note is Siva moorthy who is a ilugc member),Ramaan ,Arulalan(ilugc), Engineering community from Jaya Engg College, IFT college, Arunai Engg college) to make event a mega success. Last but not the least a big thanks to support from Aanjhan who gave is support in chat for all the question which i raised. "Jai Ho" arduino. "jai Ho" Foss thanks and regards Thyagarajan Shanmugham PS1:(photos of the exhibition will be posted later today and the url will be updated to this thread by the end of the day). PS2: for all drinking(;) fans , it is worth to try barduino (the cocktail machine based on arduino) ref: http://www.matthewdavidwilliams.com/2008/10/17/introducing-barduino-the-ruby-powered-bar-monkey/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
