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TechEra-06 off to flying start at HBTI
HARCOURT BUTLER Technological Institute director Dr RP Singh called upon participants at the TechEra-06 that they should develop creativity to meet the future technological changes. Inaugurating the two-day TechEra-06 festival at the HBTI here on Saturday, Dr Singh said traditional technologies were becoming fast obsolete and they needed to be replaced with new, cheaper and fascinating ones to ensure maximum exploitation of natural resources without affecting the environmental balance.
‘It’s time to replace traditional technology’
HARCOURT BUTLER Technological Institute (HBTI) director Dr RP Singh called upon participants at the TechEra-06 that they should develop creativity to meet the future technological changes.
Inaugurating the two-day TechEra-06 festival at the HBTI here on Saturday, Dr Singh said traditional technologies were becoming fast obsolete and they needed to be replaced with new, cheaper and fascinating ones to ensure maximum exploitation of natural resources without affecting the environmental balance.
Besides, they should also prove to be useful for the common people. He said it has been his experience that students in general lacked motivational and innovative spirit. “This should be inculcated from their school days,” he said adding, “We have good brains but they remain unused till the fag end of their career. In the initial days, the bright minds are only occupied with getting good jobs and pay packets.” He said scientific festivals like TechEra-06 provided platform to budding engineers to realise their dreams by exhibiting their talents in creating models for promoting future technology.
Dr Singh advised innovators and users of new technologies that they should not ignore the quality of life of the people in the mad race of introducing new technologies.
They must ensure that the technology they were keen to develop would not adversely affect the social and the economic health of the nation.
Robot games prove a big draw
ABOUT 20 teams are participating in the two-day Robot-games at TechEra-06.
The event has been organised by the Association of Electronics Engineers of HBTI.
Talking to Hindustan Times, convenor of the Robot-games Gaurav Kushwaha said the two games were ‘Capture the Flag’ and the ‘Love Finder’.
In the ‘Capture the Flag’ game, which was played today, two manually operated robots were directed to climb the staircases to enter into the arena. While moving on the route to each the point where a flag was hoisted, the robots crossed speed breakers, climbed a 20-degree high road and finally jumped over a slit to grab the flag point. Then the robots returned to the starting point after placing the flag in a deep ditch.
The other game, ‘Love Finder’ would be played on Sunday, Gaurav said.
Students also prepared working models of future technologies. Frequency modulation, de-modulation and ‘infrared controller through serial port’ models attracted a large number of students.
Under the Frequency Modulation system, students developed a compact kit for transmitting and receiving radio messages. The infrared controller system was an effort to command certain computer operations through remote.
In another model, young scientists had shown as to how light sensors could be effectively used to control unmanned railway crossings.
