BENGALURU: Students from all over the state got a chance to exhibit their science projects to an international audience on Friday at the Bengaluru Maker’s Faire, which was held as a part of the Bengaluru Technology Summit. The Faire, being held at the Bangalore Palace, has a lot of agricultural and rural-themed projects on display this year.
“We are a team of five people representing the College of Agricultural Engineering, Raichur. Our students got the chance to interact with other engineers and students from across the state. With so many projects on display, the encouragement for our students to practise their skills is massive,” said Professor M. Veeranagouda, Head of Department.The college is showcasing projects like a drone-mounted pesticide sprayer, a remote-operated field pesticide sprayer and an innovative wind-based alarm to scare away birds and other small animals from crops.
Not all projects are for serious uses, for example, there is a 7-string laser guitar on display which plays music when a person disrupts the laser flow with his/her fingers.”We have programmed the instrument with the ‘sa’, ‘re’, ‘ga’, ‘ma’ sounds which play when the laser light is obstructed by a finger. The project was constructed within one-month time and we are demonstrating it here,” said Abhignan Rakshith, a 5th semester student of the BMS college of Engineering, Bengaluru.
“The government wants to curate a stimulating innovation and invention ecosystem. We want to celebrate makers, tinkerers, artists, craftsmen and Bengaluru will lead India into a ‘product-nation’,” said Minister Priyank Kharge, speaking at the inaugural function.The Faire will continue on Saturday and has several workshops for hobbyists looking to pick up new techniques.