Experimental agony -

Third attempt at an experiment to evaluate accuracy of three sensors. Still no good data. It's amazing how hard running an experiment can be to get the data one needs, accurately and reliably.

This time, the threshold of the mouth guard and the skin patch sensor was not low enough for the headers to recorded on it. Also there seems to be a lot of issues to calibrate the stereo video from the two high speed cameras.

Lesson learnt, before we do the experiment again we should have a checklist to verify everything is in order, too much that can possibly go wrong!

But at least I get to do soccer headers at work :)

Progress report - Surya and the Brain Stethoscope

Of the two fledging companies I am working on right, Surya had its little moment in the sun at the BASES Product Showcase today. While we were grossly under prepared, the attention the idea generated and our ability to even have a final prototype by the end of it, were both commendable efforts. I really believe we are onto something here, but team dynamics and organization needs to improve drastically, if something/anything is to become of it. No pictures from the showcase yet, but will put some up very soon. I finally finished the first draft of the CAD for the brain stethoscope, and it looks pretty cool if I might say so myself. Here are a few images of what it might look like.




Some future to-do's for both projects

1. Get the circuitry for the lamp lighting onto nice shape. Get the arduino code ready for parsing through a string of 1's and 0's so we can light more than one lamp if needed (would be a much cooler demo)

 2. Get the CAD into 3d printable shape. Have to figure out the tolerances for the interference fit of the base plate as well as sketch out the grooves on the base plate for a nice fit of the electrodes.

 Oh, and another video person has been contacted for the sunny day video, lets hope this one works out :)

This blog is officially back open. I am also transforming it into a research/work diary with the occasional writing tidbit thrown in :) No one needs to know, but tracking progress on the hundreds of projects that I want to accomplish in life cannot be a bad thing.

First publication!

Railway stations are wondrous places, especially when they are deserted in the middle of night (even more so when they give you free wifi, and an always open starbucks). This post isnt about railway stations, or anything in particular for that matter - I just have a few hours to kill before my early morning train back home, also gmail is being increasingly annoying and lonely, so im forcing myself to stay away(atleast for now). I just ended a very hurriedly trip to philadelphia, which turned out to be (rather suprisingly) quite awesome. Turns out, I'm not quite as done with this country as I was starting to believe.
Since I'm still trying out blogging as a new experiment (I believe I missed the whole 'blogging is cool' revolution by about half a decade, but knowing me I'm not really suprised)- I'm going to try and put stuff here, I'd want to remind myself of in a couple of years. That ofcourse may not happen, and this may well become nothing but another pointless bblog which is just fun for other people to read, but we shall see.
One thing that these five months have given me is,probably for the first time ever, the freedom to choose my company entirely. O social obligations, only those that I deem necessary -zero social interaction too, if thats what I want. I may not be able to do this in chandigarh, and it is totally understandabe since I've lived half my life in that city - but my current state I neither hate or love as much as I thought i would. That does sound like a rubbish conclusion to draw, but to me is quite startling (honestly is).
Also porcupine tree is the worst music choice in a bad mood, and I may be going to an Iron Maiden, Dream Theatre concert next month (already cant wait)
And I cant really believe i forgot to to mention New York when I was rambling on about stuff I shouldnt forget. I would give anything to live in that city for a year, I already know some people are - they have no idea how luck they are :)

3 AM
30th St Station
Philadelphia

I just thought the time and location looked quite cool there at the end :)

I am sure no one will read this, which is probably the only reason I'm posting at all.

I have been on the other side of the world for 3 months now (slightly more perhaps..), and have learned a few things I know for a fact I will lose the moment I step back onto familiar shores - this is just my attempt at holding on to it while i still can.
But first of all, for the record 'I miss Momo's' a heck of a lot, and must apologize to all of those people i have made fun of for that exact statement over the course of the last year. I also miss Chandigarh, our very own little toy city, where we know we are sheltered, protected and clueless about the outside world - but very gladly so :).
As I grow older, which very regretfully - I do too ( i have deluded myself over this for a very long time, excuse the rather obvious epiphany), it becomes enormously hard to make the kind of friends I'd like to, which is all the more reason for me to treasure the ones I have.
I am a ridiculously lucky person, that is the only reason for most of the things i have done in my 3 years in college, nothing but the fortune of being in the right place at the right time - everyone has their talents, everyone also battles with the same 50% chance of everything going horribly wrong.
I still hate blogging and Photography, but knowing full well that I too am going to end up a nostalgic 'has - been' in the distant future, I'm going to make a conscious effort to change that in whatever time i have left here, memories aren't as over-rated as I've always believed them to be :).
I have experimented with narcotics and alcohol (this is an open admission to myself), yet thankfully, my opinion about them remains the same it was half a year ago.
I had a 20th Birthday that i should remember for all times to come.
I look rather good in long hair, and must keep them
My secret ambition in life is to be a songwriter, not a researcher,bureaucrat or business tycoon (all things i have considered at some time). Music means more to me than most things in the world, and I am really sorry for all the people ive bored on various messengers with my musical stories (both back home and here in America)

I am struggling to stay afloat in this new and interesting world, but enjoying every moment of it.
Vai(y)bhav(puff) Nangia

i just stumbled on to my own blog :-S

not something i ever imagined happening,

start posting here - soon, perhaps

still it's nice to know somewhere out in cyberspace it still exists

PS - the title is from an eric johnson song i really liked at the time, and im listening to again now