Bunking classes

Bunking classes was my topic for a speech for english internals.. thought abt on the previous period... thought the teacher was gonna kick me out bcos of the topic, but she dint! maybe cos it was the class in the last day of coll Anyway here it goes...
Once we come to college we hear a lot of words like 'ragging' 'hostel' 'mess' and 'bunking' is one such word. Its a part and parcel of every college students life... When we were in school we were all very sincere students and never bunked a single class.. at least i dint! but now that we are in college we should definitely indulge ourselves in such activities. Bunking classes has many plus points to it.. one- u develop a sense of time manangement. when u bunk a class u should make sure u reach in time for the next class so that the teacher leaving doesnt see u and the teacher coming for the next class also doesnt see u.. all that requires prescence of mind, planning and foresight.
Bunking classes increases ur abilities to manage stuff.. like when u maintain bunk scores and calculate how many classes u can bunk and when to bunk so that the time may be exploited to the best etc.. all that goes into ur development and helps u in interviews and ur job as such.
Then bunking classes inculcates leadership qualities.. When u organise a mass bunk u need to know how to convince people and how to talk to them.. And of course that gives u a chance to interact with girls.. girls generally require convincing.. cos there is a theory which says girls are more sincere and studious than guys... but if u tell that to a girl she wont agree, cos there's another theory which says girls dont agree to any kind of generalisation..(claps from guys and raised eyebrows from girls including teacher so dint go on with theory of girls)
and thus bunking classes goes into developmant of personality and character.
So i feel instead of having compulsary 75% attendance, the insti should have 5% compulsary bunking.. hpe u all enjoyed the first sem. see ya

Workshop practice

More work done on the robot...I dropped the name ROBORAY.. doesn't look like a ray anymore.. had to cut it to satisfy size constraints.. I got a lot of experience in working with wood. First i had to cut the wooden plate to the required shape.. this took some amount of effort. Then i drilled in holes for the screws.. this was the fun part.. its fun operating a hand drill.. i was too busy enjoying drilling that i dint notice the drill had gone into the stone on the work table.. this resulted in me getting scoldings from mom!! ha ha anyway had fun

More of my robot!!!

Hey made a lot of progress today so gonna put in another entry. Today I managed to solve the big problem of extending the motor shaft. The problem was the motor was connected to three gears and all the shafts dint reach out of the box..so I removed the shaft from the largest gear in the end which was too slow to be used. pushed the shaft of the gear i wanted to use half way out and pushed in the other shaft from the other side.. its something like this
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kinda crude but it still works cos the gear is rigid enough.
Next is the problem of fxing the wheels on the shaft.. i think im gonna use mseal to fix it. Will do that tomo..
This is wat i noticed my design and ideas to start with were very proffesional and to the point. Now after seeing the limitations of resources it keeps getting cruder and cruder.. hopefully i will stay to gether during the competition! And it should do the given task quickly and efficiently. thats all that matters!

Roboray - coin picker extrordinaire!!

Uhh.. its a flashy name for my first robot but anyway!!Robot making is really awesome.. it combines the various discplines of engineering. U need to know electronics u need to know how to machine ur parts u need to now mechanics u need to know programming to program it. It seems truly captivating and intelectually engaging project..Heres wat im gonna do. mine is a remote controlled robot that picks up metallic coins.. kinda very simple but its my first robot! but this should be challenging.. Right now i thought of using an electromagnet for picking up and a differential 2 motor drive for steering. Its crappy jargon for basically two wheels driven by two motors. one motor stop, one motor run, the robot turns. when both motor run, robo move forward. All the ideas are ready and i made a rough drawing and circuit design.








so i went and got parts.. i really dono wat will work and wat wont but i managed to get the motors gears wheels and switches.. have to assemble them on a plate.. and hopefully it will work.Ill put up another post once its built.