Texas Instruments (TI) India, has hosted the “DIY with TI”
event designed to recognize and encourage TI hobbyists who innovate in their
spare time using TI devices, and showcase their creativity with innovations
that help solve real-life problems. More than 40 engineers got together in
teams at TI in India and showcased their passion for creating simple and
innovative solutions by showcasing 15 interesting demos across home automation,
agriculture, education, personal electronics, renewable energy, healthcare,
etc.
This year, S KeerthiBala Viswanatha, Priyankar Mathuria, Ankur
Patel, Aarti Malgaonkar won the Chief Geek award for their DIY
project ‘Non-invasive Blood Sugar Prediction’. The winners were
chosen based on the potential of this application for creating future smart
cities. Also, Abhijit Ray, Tarunvir Singh, Gaurang Kuchchal were recognized as
runners-up for their project on ‘FINDO-track your valuables’. There were other
notable projects in the realm of making solar energy harvesting with a
smart tracking system, cloud based tracker to measure electrical power
consumption in home, a pen that can remember what you scribbled- no paper
required.
“We are proud to continue to host the ‘DIY with TI’ in India to
encourage TI hobbyists, develop and demonstrate their innovations by
collaborating & sharing ideas with other DIY-ers. These innovations are
created in their own time. The worldwide program, works as a catalyst to enhance
their problem solving skills in the most engaging manner. This helps us to
recognize the talented engineers across all TI offices globally,” said Santhosh
Kumar, President and Managing
Director at Texas Instruments India.
‘DIY with TI’ is a global event held within TI in its U.S.,
Germany, China and India offices. The event aims to nurture a culture of
innovation in TI by providing a platform to TIers that helps them explore
alternate and newer ways to solve a problem by doing what they love.
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