‘Arduino & Robotics Workshop

The Goa State Innovation Council organized a two day workshop on Arduino & Robotics on March 8 and 9, 2022 at its Prototyping Lab. The workshop was held for the students of first year of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Don Bosco College of Engineering-Fatorda.

Mr. Ketan Naik, Project Head at Asier Solutions delivered the sessions for the two days along with GSInC coordinator Mr. Siddhant Panjikar. The first day included sessions on Introduction to basic electronics where the students were given demonstrations to build virtual circuits in Tinkercad for control of motors etc. and an introduction to Arduino and programming. On day two of the workshop, sessions on 3D designing and printing were taken covering modelling in Blender and data exchange in STL format for 3D printing. The students were also given a practical hands on exposure in printing certain robot parts on a 3D printer. An overview on robot assembly was also provided to the students and were also involved in a group activity building a robot. Mr Sudip Faldesai, Project Officer GSInC; Prof Ajit Salunke, Head of Department- Mechanical appreciated the involvement of the students in learning things beyond the academic curriculum while, Dr. Neena Panandikar, Principal added, “Additional learnings for students of Mechanical Engineering in emerging areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Industry 4.0 etc. is an added advantage for employment prospects in the industry”.

The workshop was coordinated by Prof Harshad Pingulkar, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and was well received by the students sharing their positive feedback on both the speakers for their content and delivery.