gridbots featured in D.A.R.E.magazine !
We recently were featured in D.A.R.E magazine - a magazine on entrepreneurs in India.
So grab a copy ..
or follow this link for a preview ..
Mesmerised ....
Yesterday i met with someone who needs no introduction.
But this is not the reason of this post - as i have met a many high profilers before even.
Most peculiar thing which i noticed about this gentleman is his simplicity and down to earth attitude.
I was with him for almost about a day but not for a single moment i felt that i am with someone who has this much diversified background and achievements at mere 31 ,sufficient to give someone a huge inferiority complex.
We talked about robots and had delicious gujrati food together 
But this meeting definitely will be a unforgettable moment of my life for sure.
And those .. who still are wondering who this gentleman is then here is the clue :
World's most powerful supercomputer
Today Sun microsystems and TACC unveiled world's most powerful super compter RANGER.
Ranger bring petascale computing to realisation.
Its designed on Sun's constellation system and has the capability if 504 tera flops peak performance 
More about it here
teleGRID - Making our homes safer and accessible !
Today we launched yet another novel product : teleGRID - A home/office/factory automation and surveillance solution.
Primarily this solution is meant to facilitate the user automate his home completely and let him access it from anywhere later.
Thus,it serves dual purpose of home automation and surveillance.
Tech details and other information is available here .
Gridbots - In News
We were in news for roboGRAD (gBOT series) on the main page of Economic Times (National Edition) on 2'nd Jan 2008.
Our first consumer robotics product roboGRAD was covered along with our future plans of marketing and production.
Cool .. eh !
3 Options ....
Edukite guys called today and assured of resolving the issues which were lying pending.
Prima facie .. it seems to be the miscommunication from both the sides.
Both had points to prove each other wrong but we mutually agreed over settling this issues and closing the deal.
I hope things will settle down peacefully.
MYSQL Clone records in same table
While working on picporta we had one requirement where were supposed to clone records within the same table.
Searching in MYSQL manual i found INSERT-SELECT statement but it still does not supports same table 
So did this quick hack in PHP ..
$tempTable = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table." WHERE id='$passedId'),MYSQL_ASSOC) or die("Could not select record");
$result = mysql_query("INSERT INTO table (".implode(", ",array_keys($tempTable)).") VALUES ('".implode("', '",array_values($tempTable))."')");
Worked for me ..
PHP India
Currently we are operating from Ahmedabad.
I found this city to be a big hub for web design, PHP development outsourcing solutions from coutries like U.K. , U.S.A.
Just Google "PHP India" and you will get about 4-5 companies from ahmedabad .. strange isn't it
Top reasons which i could think behind this rather unusual phenomenon may be following :
1)Cheaper Solutions as compared to other cities in India.
2)A lot of immigrants are from Gujarat in these coutries.
3)PHP , Web designing are relatively easy to learn and get money flowing in ... ahem
Still there is a scarcity of quality programmers just like any other city .. coz by the time a programmer realize his potential he already has a lot of compelling reasons to migrate to other cities.
Swim capable Snake Robot - ACM-R5
Wow ...
Hirose Fukushima Robotics lab has made this awesome creature..
Following are the technical specs of this robot
| D.O.F | 18 |
| Size | 1750 (length) x 80 (diameter) [mm] |
| Weight | 7.5 [kg] |
| Torque of joint (Max.) | 9 [Nm] |
| Speed of joint (Max.) | 70 [deg/s] |
