Hello Friends,
My first brush with robots was when I was a little kid. My first robot being a small hand-controlled dinosaur which could move around and open his mouth and make some weird noise. As I grew up, the fantastic stories by Issac Asimov provided me with more inspiration to learn about robotics. The first actual robot I actually built was in the second year of my undergraduate engineering and it was a mess. I went through the tough gruelling sessions of purchasing things, cutting up wires, boards, soldering them and all the teeny-weeny stuff. It was much more difficult since I had no one to guide me through all this. But in the end it was worth it, I gained all the experience through trial and error. It taught me more about what not to do in building a robot.
Nowadays, there has been a spurt of so-called ROBOTIC CLASSES which undoubtedly have helped create a general awareness and interest in robotics, but nevertheless being businesses are raking in lots of moolah by taking advantage of the gullible students. The rates for basic robotics course range anywhere from Rs. 5000 - Rs. 10000, which I feel is a pure case of cheating since it doesnt take more than Rs. 500 to build a simple robot. Thats why I, Salil have teamed up with my cousin Shubhojith, who is also an avid robot enthusiast and his friends to bring the knowledge of how to build basic robots without spending too much.
What we intend to cover in this blog are basic robotics and allied knowledge which will progress to more advanced robots, basic knowledge about signal processing, introduction to image processing, developing codes in MATLAB and C++. Our main idea behind this project is to get YOU involved and we believe that it is WE together who can break the myth that paying for classes will help us learn robotics. If you are a robot enthusiast, then we urge you to contribute to this blog so as to help other students gain rudimentary knowledge about robotics.
Thanks,
Open Robotics Team
