Reflections on My Robotics Journey
A summer trip to India, an old box of electronics projects, and a look back across eighteen years of hardware, robotics, and control.
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Read more →AI for Research
Reflections on using AI-assisted programming for research prototyping, from years of wrestling with Scala to building tools in unfamiliar languages overnight.
Read more →Grading Workflow
An Emacs-based workflow for efficiently grading 40 student exam PDFs one question at a time during pandemic-era online teaching.
Read more →Automating Student Grading
Documenting five years of iterating on automated assignment checking using GitHub Classrooms and Travis CI for an industrial automation course.
Read more →Connecting Overleaf and Github
A step-by-step guide to syncing Overleaf projects with GitHub using Git, enabling local editing and reliable backups for academic writing.
Read more →Sustainability and Ethics within Automation Research
An essay exploring the ethical and sustainability dimensions of industrial automation research, written as part of a course on sustainable development.
Read more →Setting up Travis
Setting up Travis CI to automatically build and deploy a LaTeX paper from a private GitHub repository.
Read more →The CFS Experience
Reflections on a year spent building a Formula Student race car, and what the project actually taught me.
Read more →The Course to Rule Them All
What a year on the Chalmers Formula Student project actually teaches you, beyond the 15 credits it's worth on paper.
Read more →World's Obsession with Indian Poverty and the Mangalyaan Project
Thoughts on the debate that followed India's Mars orbiter launch, and what a $75m project can and can't be weighed against.
Read more →End of Phase One!
A month into CFS14: settling on a team goal, a subgroup goal, and closing out the pre-study phase with data-driven decisions.
Read more →On the Team, CFS14
Selected as a project engineer for vehicle electronics on the Chalmers Formula Student 2014 team.
Read more →Educational Systems, A Contrasting View
A month of comparing India and Sweden on education, politics, and how people spend time outside their main job.
Read more →Reflections: A Month in Sweden
Cooking without spices, flea markets, Slottsskogen, island-hopping the archipelago, and a day trip to Denmark.
Read more →A Week Old in Sweden
First impressions of Göteborg: the light, the parks, the pedestrian-first streets, and looking forward to a first winter.
Read more →SwaTaha'13
FSMK's first distributed, state-level free software fest, organised with students at PES College of Engineering, Mandya.
Read more →WinterWorkshop'13 - Memories Made!
From participant at IIT Kanpur last year to organizer for FSMK's winter workshop at SVIT, Rajanukunte this year.
Read more →The Joys of Being a Staunch Follower
On free software, its rough edges, and why building a missing KiCad component was worth the few extra hours.
Read more →Talk at SJCE Mysore
A last-minute train trip to Mysore for an IEEE student-chapter event, a zoo visit, and an ad-hoc talk that somehow worked out.
Read more →Kanpur - The Journey of a Lifetime
A trainbound trip to a tech fest at IIT Kanpur, thirty-six hours each way, and the memories that came out of it.
Read more →Image compression using Discrete cosine transforms.
A small demo showing how the DCT, the transform behind JPEG compression, packs most of an image's energy into just a few coefficients.
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