The homosapiens who desire home automation . . .

“At the bottom, robotics is all about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work”-  Director, Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, University of Massachusetts.

  In a way, all of roboting and computing involves emulating processes or activities that are either too mundane for us or too complicated to be solved by a single human mind in a respectable time frame. This belief, as philosophical as it may sound, is the driving force behind the technological revolution that all of modern humanity benefits from. For 21st century to have arrived, generations of 20th century scientists and engineers have burned the proverbial night lamp. This being said, for us to progress ourselves and our following generation into the 21st century, the well oiled machine that is “innovation” with its fuel of “desire to create” should run at full steam. If we take a bird’s eye view of the landscape of innovations, most of buzz is created by innovations that aim to make our lives a little easier by influencing our daily life and chores. This area of electronics particularly referred to as “Home Automation” desires to make the living experience of our homes grander by bringing the control of all our appliances and wares at the touch of a single button on our smart phones.

 Interestingly, this is one area where students of Kidobotikz desire to contribute as well. It is no news that students and kidobotikz undertake projects apart from their courseware and upload the same on to the tutorials page of Kidobotikz for their fellow classmates to make use of. But what is interesting is the fact that there have been so many enquiries and requests for guidance on this area that team Kidobotikz decided to appoint a special member to explore all possibilities in the area of home automation so that they could guide the students when he/she approach Kidobotikz for guidance.

Meet Alfred, the Kidobotikz appointed armchair expert on Home Automation. A passionate engineer himself, he joined Kidobotikz after falling in love with the concept of opening the world of robotics to school children. Here, he spends time exploring the various facets of the newly emerging area of Home Automation. He says that the brainstorming new projects in Home Automation requires him to stay abreast of the latest developments in the field and try out a few projects by himself before accepting doubts and queries from the students over the same. Even as we speak, he is working on a project which one of his students wanted to explore. The project which is an autonomous “Temperature controlled fan” would require him to try a myriad of sensors which would sense the ambient the temperature and relay the input to the module which would change the speed of a fan accordingly. This way the circulation of air in the room can be taken care of without actually turning the regulator knob. When his student is done developing his own version of this concept, he would submit it for approval and then get it uploaded on to the tutorials page for his peers to emulate the same.

Happy Roboting ! !