Lets Fight using the junk | IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 Live Blogging

At IIT Junkyard wars is going on. In this final qualified teams made own tower and cross over bridge by doing hard work for 24 hours.

See the fight in below videos.
Video 1 – Final Round 2
Video 2 – Final Round 3
Junkyard wards is an where participation and watching both is fun.

Water irrigation will be automated using a software | IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 Live Blogging

Abhiraj singh , Atul Pandey and Kr. Abhishek Singh, from prof. Ram Meghe Inst. of Tech. & Research,  made a software-hardware module for automatic irrigation.

In this system they have a database of around about 200 crops. According to the crop irrigation will be done automatically controlled by a software.
The software is a wizard and it [...]

Briquetting Technique – Alternative Cooking Fuel | IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 Live Blogging

Students of IIT Bombay presented an alternative technique for making efficient fuel from wastage.
The technique was efficient to give 1.7 times more efficient fuel than normal fuel. The module won first prize for Utkarsh event.
Shrinivas Rajaram, Parind Desai, Nishu Goyal, Sanmati Jain and Vishal have designed one fuel crusher and compressor that performs mentioned acts [...]

NDRF Highrise Rescue operation in IIT Bombay | IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 Live Blogging

NDRF high rise rescue operation demonstration in IIT Bombay.

IIT Techfest Day 2 – The day of new inventions | IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 Live Blogging

Though India is behind when it comes of percent of people using internet, today at IIT Bombay I was glad to see ideas given by youth of the India.
Today in IIT Techfest 2010 I enjoyed many events including some most famous events like Open Hardware, Open Software, Technoholix.
In open hardware and open software I got [...]

Father of Wi-Fi Vic Hayes explains Wi-Fi at IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 | IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 Live Blogging

Vic Hayes, Father of Wi-Fi explains his journey to the development and success of Wi-Fi. He told how the generations and standard of Wi-Fi got change.

First Year I.T. students create foot operated tap | IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 Live Blogging

“We waste water while applying soap to hands, so I thought of creating a tap that can be operated by foot.” a first year I.T. student of JSS Academy of technical education said. He added “Usually people use sensors and similar things for the purpose but they are that costly that everyone can’t afford them.”
As [...]

Play games with LED torch, AITR, Indore students presents cheaper motion gaming at IIT Bombay Techfest | IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 Live Blogging

Pulkit Dave and Neerja Pancholi AITR, indore coded a motion game on engineering life. The game was coded for IIT Techfest 2010 open software event and was based on 4 years of engineering.
The game was coded in C and Java programming languages. Input and output methods were keyboard and mouse. In later part of demonstration [...]

Solve your problems by just sending a SMS | IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 Live Blogging

Kanan and Neelam, 4th year CSE students, SRKNEC Nagpur represented concept of User to User search as a part of IIT techfest 2010 open software.
They have created a SMS based query portal in that user will be able to get answer for his queries by just a single SMS.
“Basic behind the project is we connect [...]

Bascule Bridge – Show your construction mind | IIT Bombay Techfest 2010 Live Blogging

In Techfest 2010 there is one event named Bascule Bridge making event, in which you have to make a bridge that can be opened as shown in above image. The bridge must be able to pass through 15 kgs of trolley without any damage.

One of the participant from R. K. NEC informed that the bridge [...]