In this article, I’ll be sharing my experience of Inter IIT Tech Meet 2019.

I fondly remember the day, when we bagged the second position in the robotics module at Inter-IIT Tech meet 8.0 at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. It was a surrealistic moment filled with happiness and excitement. It’s a beautiful process to watch the project come together, the vision seemingly impossible in the beginning being presented and later getting the recognition for that work. Sharing this story is almost like reliving it. ....

Though I don’t have much to write about this, It is one of the projects that I am most proud of, not because that we won first prize but the way we planned and executed things.

We needed to build a 4 bot system that can communicate with each other and align according to a given pattern. It was a part of Inter Hostel Tech Competition Kriti, We had only two days do all the work, and also 2-3 quizzes scheduled on the same day. At first, the problem statement seems like that we may need to use the shortest path algos with taking care of collision, But the key to doing any college project involving hardware is to keep it simple. We also discussed a few algos like A-star and other path-finding algorithms, but these algorithms were too complex to implement with the actual bot. So we decided to design our own simple if-else algorithm by considering all the possible cases. Yes, I know It looks like hardcoding but it’s not. It is one of the methods of robot navigation ....