Summer Holidays Are Here

Summer holidays are here and its time to do something productive....
Luckily I've found myself some challenges to make myself busy.

Scipher

My first shot at entrepreneurship. Me and my friends have decided to conduct a national level competitive exam 'Scipher'. There are several challenges lying ahead of us.

• None of us have any experience whatsoever. It is a real challenge to coordinate so many people to make something in this scale a success.
• We need an official website. Unfortunately none of us know anything about designing a website.I'm the only one with some programming background. So I have just 1 week to learn HTML, CSS and Javascript and cook up a website.
  Update:Check out w3schools.com. Building a website is simple and easy.
  Update: YAY..We have an official website. Scipher.in
• The exam is supposed to contain only multiple choice questions. We need to come up with a solution to evaluate thousands of answer paper. We plan to use OMR sheets. But commercial OMR readers cost a lot and we are on a tight budget (practically broke). All we have is access to a normal scanner and we need to develop a software to do the magic.

Summer Project

We had an introductory course on electronics and microcontrollers in this semester (Sem 2). Frankly the course seemed boring especially the labs. All we could do in the lab is to check out the circuit diagram, assemble the circuit elements and get the 'desired output'. 

What did we actually learn from this? How to blink LEDs. How to maintain the temperature of a heater using a temperature sensor. It would have better if we had to do it without the circuit diagram or the microcontroller codes handed out to us. So to really learn something I thought I should take up a project. 

I've got an Idea. Lets make a car capable of driving itself.. No not a google car, more like a toy.