This blog usually functions as a journal for my photography endeavors, but I’m quite excited about this next project and figured it’s somewhat related that I decided to throw it in. For the past three months architects and engineers students at the University of Pennsylvania have been working together on building mechatronic devices (think robots) [...]
1 Comment »This is old news (no pun intended) but I never got the times (pun intended) to write a proper blog post about it. Anyways, CKbot got written up in the New York Times on July 28! Yes I know, that is almost three weeks ago. My buddy from college Graham Roberts is one of the [...]
No Comments »My lab was invited to come to India to exhibit our CKBots at IIT Bombay’s Techfest. Below are some snapshots as a teaser to the full photo essay. There’s just too much to write here. Some keywords: pollution, technology, Taj Mahal, robots, lasers, traffic, Lake Powai, Sachin, people, lots of people, globalization. To see all [...]
4 Comments »Last night my engineering skills were put to the test as a cap broke off my cold water pipe that leads up to my sink’s faucet. This seemed to happen right when I turned on my dishwasher (WTF!). The hole was so low on the pipe that I could not put a bucket there, just [...]
1 Comment »Discover Magazine listed our Self reAssembly after Explosion demo as the 81st of 100 top technology stories of 2008. http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/081 We beat bulletproof paper (#83) but lost to self-healing rubber from oil and pee (#80).
No Comments »Last Wednesday at 9.30PM terrorists simultaneously strike several luxury hotels and tourist hangouts. They open fire and injure hundreds, then proceed to take scores of hostages. In an editorial in the NYT, Suketa Mehta writes: The terrorists’ message was clear: Stay away from Mumbai or you will get killed. Cricket matches with visiting English and [...]
No Comments »Today I just came back from Wired Nextfest which took place at Millenium Park in Chicago. It didn’t go quite as well as we wanted since we had planned to present three demos and got only one and a half of them to work due to some hardware issues and just generally being unprepared. Quite [...]
No Comments »While working at Willow Garage, Matt and I and some others pulled a prank on our good friend Sachin using Robopong (a machine that shoots ping pong balls) and our CKbot modules. In a nutshell, we created a hatch in the ceiling we could open and close remotely. Through this hatch we could fire ping [...]
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