Projects

Ongoing/Completed

  • High end scientific instrumentation for SAMEER
    • Data acquisition and Control unit for infrared radiometer
    • Motorized Azimuth mount for IR radiometer
  • COVID19 – As part of IndiaCOVIDSoS group (funding from The Giving Back Fund, USA)
    • Open source mask testing device (blog)
    • O2 concentrator driven and used within an ambulance (pdf proposal)
  • Citizen Science projects:
    • Weather/environment
      • Breathe2 air pollution monitoring network (blog)
      • RainCloud – low cost rain measurement device (blog) [ not successful]
      • Seis-mouse-meter (Hackaday link) – A low-cost hack of a computer optical mouse to measure seismic vibrations (prototype #3.1).
    • Assistive technologies
      • Arbitrary position laptop/tab holder for a persons with spinal cord injury/bedridden. (blog)
      • Developing an easy to carry, low cost tactile drawing system for kids with blindness or visual impairments. (proto 1, proto 2, proto 3, proto 4)
  • SmallDAC setups – Low cost opensource and openhardware intended PLC alternatives for low budget scientific and industrial applications.
    1. Vegetable Dryer system, Parbani. Maharashtra. Client – Sarvaay LLP, Pune.
    2. PPE fabric testing unit. – Client – Texol Engineering Pvt. Ltd., for NMRL/DRDO contract.
    3. MSME Jaggery production unit, Wagholi, Pune. – Client – Sarvaay LLP, Pune.
    4. Drying Apparatus : Controller for vegetable drying profile generating instrument – Client – Mr. Ameya Kulkarni, BARC/ICT, Mumbai.
    5. MSME Jaggery production unit , Loni, Pune – Client – Sarvaay LLP, Pune).
    6. Solar powered kitchen setup -Client – NCL’s Venture Center, Pune.
    7. Vegetables drying unit: Biomass powered vegetable drying unit – Client – Mr. Pramod Bhurji, Loni, Pune.
    8. NCL Old canteen SmallDAq V1an Arduino based data logger + email transmission unit for NCL’s solar kitchen setup – Client – NCL, Pune.
  • Solar thermal spices roasting system – Client – Dr. Vishal Sardeshpande, IIT Bombay.
  • Low smoke sanitary pad incinerator – Client – Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, Pune.
  • Automated lemon juicer V1– Client – Mr. Radheshyam Ratnaparkhi, Pune.
  • Python code for tailored graphical presentation of scientific data – Client – Prof. Francesco Contino, VUB, Belgium

A history of old projects