Robotics and Rocketry club at PESIT
On November 19th 2005, PESIT finally launched its 'Robotics and Rocketry' club. mrinal and I were present at the launch (also to be felicitated for our "achievements" in robotics). The launch itself was pretty interesting, with 3LER being programmed to press a button which would launch a model rocket. I had to build a prototype of 3LER in little more than a night, for this launch. The rocket platform was built by our juniors in close collaboration with us. Overall, it was good fun, and everything went smoothly. watch the video here.

Not so long ago when we were in college, I once presented a proposal to our management for the formation of a robotics club. I got but didn't go ahead with it at that time. I still don't understand the reasons, but it was perhaps because I loved my freedom, and with or without a club, we were still doing our stuff, and enjoying it like crazy. Perhaps it was also because we were too busy with COMRADE by that time.

However, after I passed out, I had been helping a few juniors with the design of robots. Now I am actively involved with this club, and we already have two important competitions lined up.The maze-solving robotics competition, MicroMouse at IIT Powai in January 2006, and India wing of RoboCon at Nirma Institute of Technology in March 2006. Both the events are something we always wanted to participate while in college, but couldn't because of various reasons.

I am now helping our current juniors design and build robots for the event. After a year at the "enterprise" world, this is heaven.

If anyone is interested to contribute/help/be-involved in the events, please barge in. This is as good as it gets :)