Techfest '07 ++

Seems I am bit lazy these days... for blogging atleast.

Well, it actually is, most of the time I have so much to write but so little time, that I postpone the task. But fine, lets give a try, to cover up as much as I can in this one.

The last post had a mention of my visit to Techfest'07. Basically, once I had strated preparing for that, and got into robotics, I have really kept me busy in that.
In techfest'07, I participated in codemastroes, a complete event for a computer buff /* like me :P*/, which had it all, programming, algorithms, debugging, gaming and all. We dint fare well, stood 7th among the 20 finalists chosen before the fest throgh online elims. Though actually, we were pretty happy just to qualify, dint had much hopes before that. So, for that seventh position, got some goodies from google and Nvidia.

Another event, which was more important for me than this one, though I wasn't registered in it, but I spent over two months for that ( Nov'06 - Jan'07), it was Micormouse. Our very first experience in robotics, and that too with AI and all. From the very first day when we started working on it way back in Nov, we were not sure about even if we'll be able to qualify or not, but still, we tried our best. The result was not so good, we lacked a bit in mechnical part, the electroncs was fine, the code was fine, but we made a few wrong selections in motor and chasis and as a result our mosue was not ablt to move, though if you lift it in air, then one can see that motors were moving perfectly.

Never mind, this was our first experience in robotics, are we were glad to do this much on our own.

There were other civil people also with us on the trip. We dint got much prizes from campus, but had a really nice experience there, which we do value.

But hey, the trip is not yer over. After three days on campus, we went to Gautam's home. There were eigth of us. The next day was Essel World. Had loads and loads of fun there. But unfortunately forgot our digicam, so cant share those moments in visual with you. Bu that day was absolutely fabulous. And after Essel World, we went to Gorai beach, not a famous one in Mumbai, but thatwas adjacent to Essel world. And that was my first encounter with sea. Its so nice to see the sea.. its all over.. seems like this is the edge the world. Spent arounf an hour therem collected some broken sea shells and then returned back. While returning, we thought of going to Marine Drive, but a few of us were too tired, so ended our trip after beach only.
The next day, I went to Lamington road, paradise for electronics buffs, with gautam. Alas, we dint had much time that day, we planned to get lots of stuff from that place, but when the market was in full flow, we had to return back, train was scheduled for 1850 hrs and we had to reach home by 1500 hrs. We just managed to get a pair of stepper motors, really small one, and which do hold an important position these days. And a little of other stuff, for our seniors.

This marked the end of our week long trip to MUMBAI.. it rocks

Certainely a HIT


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