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February 2010 Stirling
Engine: It was a long cherished dream of mine to get my
hands dirty on CNCs and lathes. This dream was realized last
summer when I took MEAM
150: Fundamentals of Mechanical Prototyping here at Penn.
It was one of the best times I had since coming here. I'm now
a proud creator of a 'Flaming' Stirling Engine.
This course also allowed me to gain a complete access
to the machine shop. Later in the semester, I was also involved
in a project under Prof. Mark Yim that dealt with fabricating
an experimental adapter for a quick change end-effector on PR2
(an awesome robot being developed at Willow
Garage)
1 June 2009
A lot has happened over the past few months. Moved from
Mumbai to Philadelphia for graduate studies in
Robotics at UPenn,
completed the first semester, began working at the Modlab
for summer, got intorduced to the amazing world of fixed
gear bikes, met Kimya
Dawson, made new friends...There are many things to update
about but I think I'll stop here for now.
Meanwhile
checkout this video:
p.s
sorry to all whom I haven't been able to email back. I kinda
'go-ghost' sometimes. Bad habit.
