How to Celebrate Earth Hour

We all know what to do during world hour, switch off lights; simple, yet effective. Buts lets take it to a whole new level, shall we???after all just ‘’switch off lights’’ seem a bit…crappy and textual..........here’s some tips you can follow for at least 1 hour in a year

1. Get off facebook, youtube or any other site- infact switch off your desktop/laptop also. The world can wait for 1 hour

2. While saving electricity, save water too- wash your stinking body in advance. But obviously you all are not master plumbers, so keep a utensil under a leaking tap (if you want, give it to some friend of yours to drink 3:) )

3. Organize a party- not THAT type of party, just roam around with friends on the streets, tell everyone about it(maybe by the time the hour ends, you might get at least 2-3 people listening to you)

4. Be close to nature- if there is any sign of vegetation in vicinity, apart from your fridge, go and water it, talk to it(its all crappy, but maybe the tree is actually a fairy tale in disguise and will grant you 3 wishes; if it happens, ask for unlimited wishes, you cant trust them )
For ex. There is this lonely tree near my house, which has gone yellow due to dust, so I think I would give it a bit of water

5. Switch off mobile phone- I forgot about this part, until mine rang(message from qtel, my insufferable girlfriend). You don’t need to send your BFF your per minute progress troughout earth hour (18:57-I am going out; 18:58- nahhh, just sticking in my house)

6. Try to recycle your last years books- you will be getting rid of them, plus helping mother nature

Well, with these tips im sure you are going to have a peaceful blast for that 1 hour…….

p.s. in case you chicken out or feel lazy or some other reason, then we’ll…………………………………………….what can we do after all, you will STILL lie to us, you hypocrites , and those who do celebrate the hour, KUDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Botball Regional Tournament

AIM

This years theme was 'Airport'. We had to create a set of robots to accomplish the tasks summed up by the following video.

2011 Botball Challenge

DOCUMENTS

These are the seven documents which were submitted as a part of the competition by us. We scored 100 points for each document and won third place for documentation :)

Period 1

• Design Concepts
• Project Plan
• Software
  

Period 2

• Mechanical Systems Design
• Project Plan
• Example Commented Code

Period 3

• Lessons Learned

By the way, here is a video of our robot's testing on the day of the competition. We were not using a proper board so we had to make major modifications to our programs and test it out.

Here are a few photos of our robots

RESULT

We came fifth overall and won third prize in Documentation. We were a bit disappointing as we had hoped for a higher position. Still it was a great learning experience and I am proud of what I and my team accomplished.