Abhisek's fairy tale

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The same Macbook Abhisek whom I mentioned earlier. Here is his fairy tale(worth mentioning again).

My team was all set and two days to take-off.

Abhisek, one of the team was wary of difficulties he was going to face then. He called the first flight carrier, Etihad. He was advised to cancel his flight tickets or he would get trapped at immigration on arrival at Dallas,US. He didn't like the reply at all.

Abhisek spoke all night. Same was the reply from other travel agencies. Shit shouldn't happen this way. Below is the excerpt from what we talked that evening. It was clearly evident from the screenshots that he already cancelled his tickets by that time.

We all worked hard. Our Cansat was packed for flight by then and shopping done. Five out of seven members booked tickets. Others were Shivam Prakash, my senior(more about him later) and me. Four of the high-five spent nearly INR 70,000.

We all were silent and dumbstruck for an hour. How can one cancel flight ticket(miss a golden opportunity) just because he/she felt something might go wrong with a slightly different name in ticket from that of passport?

After an 45 mins of last conversation I had with him:

Miracle happened! Even he did't believe it for a while!

Next... All enthusiasm back to normal. As of this writing they are in Dallas, Texas. All the five... working hard to win for the launch tomorrow.

Wishing them clear skies and Best of Luck!

Goutham

I am free now

Hello!

I post this kind of stuff every time I am done with my exams. Finishing them is like breaking free.

Last time for almost half vacation I was bedridden in my uncle's place. Now I started working on the following stuff:

1. AVR C programming
2. Project Compound Eye

The first one is still in progress as I paused it in middle of 4th semester. Now I continue, at my own pace. Someday in my life(not too far) I yearn to master atleast one microprocessor architecture to learn and apply embedded systems.

Project Compound Eye is still in conceptual phase. The name suggests it all. Its about a wide curvature array of LEDs, just like a bee's eye which sense light, noted as Mims effect. This is used to create an image(possibly more than visible spectrum), by means of amplifying, processing and mapping output voltage from each LED in a spatial manner . Will say more about it later.

I got two more exciting things to share:

I am a part of team SRM VAIMAANIX, representing SRM University in annual CanSat competition to be held at Burkett, Texas during June 12-14. I could not be with my team for long and go with them to USA this time but I will next year. I did electronic fabrication and camera motor start technique and also helped in initial testing. Wishing my team Best of Luck!

Next, I will be starting my summer training at DRDL tomorrow. DRDL is one of labs under DRDO which is involved in design and development of all kinds of  missiles. I will share my experience there soon.

Goutham