Join us tomorrow, as @rithvikvibhut and I get to finally present our work hacking fiber, ISPs and wiretapping everyone at DEF CON (12 hours from now!)
We'll live stream or post a link!
Bring your friends, popcorn and enjoy the show!
Super excited!!
https://t.co/VfzAdSzgA2
Had a great time at the engineering guild yesterday, hosted by @fermatcommerce at the @lagrange point. Really pretty, new property, which I can see is going to host super cool folks, building in Bangalore. SO many stories to capture!!
In India 🇮🇳, students in colleges prepare to enter the real world by doing fake things:
- meaningless resume padding projects
- endless interview prep
- placement politics
We can do better. Introducing @quest_sh:
A set of hard but tractable *real world* problems you can solve to prove your mettle
Built a super fast search engine for finding electronics components in India 🇮🇳 with @thel3l
We've got components with pricing and stock info from different Indian vendors (like Robu, Probots etc)
Using it for finding parts for our own hacks, and it is fast
(link below ⏚)
Most importantly, we're doing an open house at @_lagrangepoint where @rithvikvibhut, @thel3l, and I will be unblocking airpods for folks who want to use them as hearing aids!
https://t.co/V1gd41r0pU
Apple released a hearing aids feature for the AirPods Pro a while ago. I bought a pair for grandma, but then realized that the feature was geoblocked in India
So we at @_lagrangepoint decided to unblock it. It ended up involving a leaky microwave and building a Faraday cage:
Last night, some of us at @_lagrangepoint met to figure out how to detect plastic contamination in our food.
We want to figure out how to detect both microplastics and leached plasticizers at scale
We've reached out to and gotten a response from many labs in Bangalore, particularly IISc, to provide us equipment and technical help
We were also encouraged by the fact that people have built useful DIY spectrometers on a budget, so we scoped out what it would take to build our own FT-IR / Raman spectrometer.
We worked on making sense of all the literature around the detection of plastics and construction of spectrometers until sunrise.
After then we went for a walk around Agara lake, followed by Dosa and coffee
Incredible stuff happening at @_lagrangepoint with some very interesting people. Big thanks to @pranav_berry for the crash course. Looking forward to hosting more of these.
Today, we hosted an incredible Bio-101 course at Lagrange Point led by @pranav_berry
We discussed everything between gene transfer and mutations, viruses and DNA sequencing and had some amazing discussions about the mutations in genetic material and cancer.
Was lucky to visit @itsarnavb’s lab, The Lagrange Point today.
Inspiring to see the space him, @thel3l and the crew have built - experiments on how to solve liquid waste, software to read better, and so much more.
🇮🇳/acc at its peak.
[4th picture was a banana & eggs once]