For most of us, having a personal robot like R2-D2 or TARS is the stuff of dreams. But if you are a student at JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, you get to build your own bot on campus!
As part of the college’s technical symposium JISTech 2K16, electronic engineering students Md. Manuar and Samin Mondal designed and built a robot, that too from e-waste, to emphasise how electronic waste could be properly recycled. This handsome robot can shake hands and move its limbs!
Every outdoor event we cover these days seems to have drones for photography or security. At JIS, computer science engineering students Sayan Dey Biswas, Subham Roy Tapadar, Soukhin Basu, Subhankar Dey, Soumyadeep Bhattacharya and Ujjwal Barman built this super-cool quadcopter. It’s a multi-rotor helicopter that is lifted and propelled by four rotors. They generally use two pairs of identical fixed pitched propellers. The drone was built for internal surveillance at the institute.
Built by computer engineering students Anjan Ghosh, Sunandini Sukla, Anirban Saha and Raj Sekhar Bhakat, this hydraulic bridge consists of two cantilever spans made of popsicle sticks, with which two individual hydraulic systems were attached. A hydraulic crane, a hydraulic lift, a small ship and a river with coastal area were simulated in the project. This bascule bridge (a bridge with a section that can be raised and lowered using counterweights) would open from the middle and the cantilever spans would rise up to provide a clear pathway for the ship into the river. Such a bridge can be seen in London, Chicago, Tamil Nadu....
Eco Handy Van (EHV) is an innovatively designed low-cost vehicle for people living with handicap or cerebral palsy, as well as senior citizens. Designed and built by electronics and communication engineering students Dipesu Banerjee, Souvik Maitra, Ayan Pal, Rahul Haldar and Aakash Sinha, the EHV is user-friendly and eco-friendly. It is battery-operated yet affordable. Efforts are on to file a patent for commercial production of this vehicle. The core team of EHV is moving towards a start-up, inspired by APJ Abdul Kalam, to become employment-givers, not seekers.