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eDrumFueled by the urge to create something and by the fact that I couldn't afford a drumkit back then, I came up with a plan to make an electronic drum kit. The idea was simple, make something similar to the famous Roland V drums, only much, much more inexpensive. I had always been playing drums on my computer using the keyboard as the input. One day, I ripped it apart, soldered some wires and went hunting for some metal plates. When I came back, I taped those wires to the metal plates and when the plates came in to contact, EUREKA! I heard the sound of the kick drum and I was happy, really really happy. Click to find out more.
These are some of the projects I did when I was in college
An Intelligent Shape Based Image Retrieval System Using Shape Matrix.
This was my final year undergrad project. I've always been interested in image recognition for a long time since I feel is simply a challenge.
We humans take things like recognizing simple shapes very easily, but I found extremly fascination when I had to teach a computer to recognize the same.
This project is partly responsible for my initiating my interest in cognitive science. It was done in MAT Lab, the language of choice for singnal/image processing.
I was responsible for coming up with the basic logic behind the implementation and coding. My peers helped me by researching on several topics related to using a shape matrix
and by running numerous tests.
TAM <=> TAB Conversion
Tamil, which happens to be my mother tounge, is a classical language. Its one of the oldest whose origin is shrouded in mysteries.
There have been reports that it originated some 20,000 years ago in the equally mysterious continent of Lemuria. But we all know
that's a big fat lie! So there are these two competing encoding schemes for Tamil and both are used extensively in various places. But this creates a major problem. Documents encoded using
one scheme is not supported by softwares using the other scheme. To reign in some peace, I, on behalf of the language lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering wrote a program
in Java which lets people convert between these two encoding schemes. No fancy interface, its just command line based program which takes in the name of file, the encoding scheme of it and the target
encoding scheme as the input and spits out the desired output as the same filename with a 1 appended to it. Neat and simple, yet amazingly fast.
Space Shooters.
Oh! I had so much fun coding this game. This was way back in my first year. Started as a simple project for my C++ lab to display use of graphics libraries but soon my urges to fiddle around took over me
and the result was a fun shooting game. Since I'm a big nintendo/atari fan I decided to pay homage to those space alien shooting games with this. Back in the day, this was quite a hit in the dorms.
For information about more academic projects, please have a look at my resume (under Academic Projects)
Contact me if your interested in knowing more about any of these projects.