At the time of APOGEE 2008, it was in my third year, and I was the co-ordinator for Instrumentation Forum ( association of students of Electronics and Instrumentation ). So I was responsible for all the activities of Instru assoc for APOGEE 2008. We were some 70+ students. Together we organized guest lectures; technical events (Parishod, Open hardware, Virtuosity, Garovista, Siddhi, Wireless Quest, Breadstroming, Quintronics) in collaboration with some other assocs; workshops; and we prepared some prize winnig projects :).
Events... lets not discuss it. I accept that we could had done better in organization of the events. But projects and workshops.. they were the highlights.. that is what made the APOGEE 2008 memorable, atleast for me.
Workshops - we conducted two workshops - One on MEMS and another one on Industrial Automation. These were not professional workshops. It was like students (primarily first year, guided by third year students) study and present some (not necessarily :P) new technical topic to the junta during APOGEE. So one group prepared on Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems and the other group prepared on Industrial Automation. Both the groups had some 8-10 furst year students guided by 1-2 third year student(s). The MEMS group studied the various concepts/processes involved in MEMS and explained it with one example (I think it was Cantilever). They were planning to use some software tool called Sugar, but I don't remember if they finally did it or not. The other Industrial Automation Group prepared a working model of Tile Industry. They integrated it with LabVIEW also. The model showed the various staged involved in manufacturing a tile. In reality, manufacturing of tiles invlove very high temperatures for baking and stuff. So this was just a model, and it prepared models of tiles :D. It was working in the sense that there was a conveyor belt, controlled by motor, some other moving parts like a 'heavy' weight which can be moved up and down, and is used to flaten the stuff to form tiles and so on. Both of them got reasonably good response.
Projects - This was the thing. Our show in Project competition was lot better than previous times :). We won first prize in Automation for 'Digital Display'; first in Industrial Processes and Automation for 'Automation of Tile Industry'; first in Signal Processing for 'Speech Controlled Wheel Chair'; and second in Signal Processing for 'Automated Linesman'. Apart from project competition, some projects won prizes in events too - first in Siddhi ( in the module which required a robot to imitate some biological organ/organism ) for 'Octapod'; and first in Open Hardware for 'Speech Controlled Wheel Chair'. Apart from the winners, some other projects were - Surface Colour Plotter, Robotic Arm, Free Space Optics (this was inspired from my and gautam's first APOGEE's project), GRID - Automated Path Tracking Robot, Writing robo, Automated Machine Error Detection System, PoleClimber, Table Ice Hockey, Breaks Unleashed, etc. Most of these project plus may other whose name I dont remember (sorry) were working :). I was really happy and satisfied as we had more than 20 projects in working condition.
I'll upload the photos on some online album and update the link in this post soon.
This all was just data. And obviously I remember something more than just data from this memorable event. If I post it here, it will be too long post, so lets split it. I'll 'blog' and not report in my next post on APOGEE 2008.
