Over the last two months, I played Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding and I absolutely loved it. The writing, the aesthetic, the characters, the music, the scenery – all brilliant. The gameplay, not as much. Here’s my review of it. Death Stranding is set somewhere in the near future post an apocalyptic event called ‘the Death…
EyeWriter
I’ve been working on a prototype for a project I call eyeWriter. The basic idea of eyeWriter is to track the user’s eye movements and determine where the user is looking on a screen consisting of several communication options and thereby finding what the user wants to communicate. The project has been put through three…
More 3D prints!
I made a couple more 3D printed minifigs. It is super fun to model, extemely tedious to edit and very satisfying to see the final result. I made an android with a very w i d e head and the 3D form of Kodamas – a small set of creatures from Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke….
Graphic Novelisation of the Last Question
“The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light.” – The Last Question, Issac Asimov This short book re-tells the story of various succeeding generations of MultiVAC – a supercomputer featuring in many of legendary science fiction author…
Volunteering to repaint an old government school with Youth for Parivarthan
Youth For Parivarthan started 6 years ago when Bangalore’s title started to change from “The Garden City of India” to “The Garbage city of India”. To change the city’s image worldwide, they started this organisation. Apart from spot-fixes the organization also indulges in orphanage and old-age home visits, organizing drawing and other competitions for kids,…
Lunar Photography
A few months back my cousin (who I thank for being patient enough to watch me aim a telescope for thirty minutes) and I tried to take photos of the Moon. We were aiming for the Tycho Crater because it’s really prominant and also just challenging enough to it fun for non astrophysics enthusiasts. However…
Inktober
Inktober – the month where hundereds of artists make a pen-n-ink sketch once everyday. Sadly I did not succeed in doing one everyday but here are the ones I made. That’s all I have for now. Live Long and Prosper!
Palm motion detection and tracking for drawing!
Recently I made a program to track my hand movements and translate that into cursor movements on the computer screen. I used OpenCV and Python3 to do so. Here’s how it works! First the program reads the video from the connected camera (USB webcam in my case). After that, it converts the frame to black…
My first 3D print!
I just finished my first 3D printed object – it’s a model of Jiji from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Here it is! It’s about 9 centimeters tall and jet black… or shiny black… whatever kind of black you think this is – I made the entire model through blender through its sculpt mode. I made some…
Quantum Entanglement and Communication
It’s about time that we heard some good news. On the 15th of June 2020, China made a breakthrough in the field of quantum mechanics. They demonstrated quantum entanglement – a method of intertwining two particles so that measuring properties of one can tell you about the other. This has been done in the past,…
Illustration for a PCB
I made an illustration for a PCB called ThermAlert made by Electronut Labs! Take a look. Link to the tweet – https://twitter.com/electronutLabs/status/1166321544592670721
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