The Technical Flair

Facebook posts get upgraded to support over 60,000 characters

2011-12-01T16:03:00.001+05:30

yes, you have read it right. Now Facebook ups the character limit to above 60000 !!

This is really Hugh. You can now post long stories and even a novel in nine posts. I rarely write the blog post of this length. Now I am thinking to shift my blog to Facebook(just joking!!). But can you guess why this 63,206 has been chosen. Take a try. Got? Don't worry I tell you.

Facebook = Face Boo K => hex(FACE) – K => 64206 – 1000 = 6320.

This is not first time when Facebook has raised its bar over its post length. For your information I must tell you that once Facebook had just 160 characters for the users to offer.

Then in march 2009, it upgraded to 420 characters. Again in July this year Facebook raised the character limit to 500 which again exploded to get 5000 characters two months later in September 2011. And now it crosses over 60,000, as announced yesterday.

Facebook is trying to add all sorts of possible features to keep users engage and can refrain then to go for Google+. After the launch of Google+, Facebook has added video chat, revamped its interface, improved friend list, added In-line privacy control and expanded the post's boundary.

But do you know where is Google+ in the race of providing better word count limit for the posts ? Its still far ahead of Facebook. Google+ claims to provide no limit on the word count for the posts. The interesting battle is going on. No matter who wins, but the profit will come to the users. Lets wait and watch for the new offering from the two beasts of Social Networking and keep enjoying the products coming out of their battle....

Apps for your Linux Machine

2011-11-30T19:58:00.001+05:30

Testing newly released operating systems gives me pleasure and thus I am jumping to many of the OSs right from the day I have got my new laptop. I started the year 2011 with ubuntu 10.10 and windows vista as the dual boot. Soon I jumped to windows 7 and after the release of Natty Narwhal, I switched to it keeping the windows 7 with me. During my summer vacation I installed Opensuse 11.4. whatever Linux distribution I may install I always kept windows with me. But this September I made up my mind to keep the windows out of my box for always and my machine had only ubuntu. After the release of Oneiric Ocelot, I upgraded to it. I have virtual box but windows has no place in it also. Arch linux has got that throne to rule the virtual box's world.

I have installed a plethora of apps in ubuntu and tested them. I am posting my experience so that you may get some help in choosing the best app for the particular job.

I have chromium, chrome, opera, firefox and conqueror installed to crunch my browsing desires. I mostly use google chrome for browsing purpose. Chrome and chromium work similar since they have got the same soul with different body. Chromium is the open source project of google for its browser. I think chrome is best for browsing however opera also works nice. I use mozilla firefox for downloading the stuffs. The reason behind using the firefox is the presence of 'downthemall' a firefox add-on which accelerates the downloading speed by 400%.

I am doing a lot of chatting for last few weeks. My earlier weapon for chatting was empathy. It has nice look, support almost all popular protocols and has nice theme. Last week I shifted to pidgin and I'm in love with it. The power of pidgin lies on its plugins. Its buddy pounces and ability to add custom smileys out of your image, rocks! I welcome my friends over chat by hitting them with my smiley made of my own image. I have 'Kopete' also but I never use it. For irc, Xchat IRC works great for me and I think it is best in its category. With ubuntu 11.10, I have got Thunderbird as my default email client which is really good move by cannonical. I like it more than the Evolution. But Evolution have got the calender with it which makes it to compete with Thunderbird. But don't worry if you love Thunderbird, just install the Sunbird plugin for it using Ubuntu Software Center.

For watching videos, playing songs and other media playback, VLC works great for me. It opens up to play media much faster than banshee media player. VLC can play almost anything you throw in it. Banshee sometimes hangs but never the vlc. I have 'gmusicbrowser' also but I have used it rarely. Similarly I rarely throw a look at totem and parole. For video editing 'Pitivi' is best out there. For handling the plethora of photographs which I have clicked; 'Picasa' is there to help me.

Like applications I teated most of the prominent desktop environment available for linux based operating system. I started with unity which was the default one. Then I gave a shot to Kde. It was eye catching but it kept my machine's fan running always. Most of the time I found the cpu uses more than 60% which used to jump over 90% in case of running any application. Gnome looked nice for me however, many find gnome 3.2 a crap including the Linux creator, Linus Torvald. Only irritating thing I found in it is the absence of minimize and maximize button however I liked it at all its corners. I also tested xfce, lxde and enlightenment 17. I was amazed by the look and feel of enlightenment 17. It is light on resources but great on look. I found lxde better than xfce. I will suggest you to go for lxde, if you want less resource hog and better interface both. You decide yourself for the best apt environment for your linux machine.

Similarly I have got extremely large number of apps of other purposes and I think to discuss them all is not a healthy choice so I am telling the best working app( at least they work best for me)

email client Thunderbird

web browser google chrome & mozilla firefox

office application LibreOffice

clipboard manager Glipper

screenshot app Shutter

searching app Gnome Do

photos manager Picasa

offline dictionary Artha

internet messenger Pidgin

Tex file editor Kile

media player vlc

text editor emacs, vim, gedit

irc client xchat

IDE Eclipse, Qt creator

Terminal emulator yakuake

virtual machine virtual box

Image editor Gimp

2D modeling app Blender

Audio editor Audacity

video editor Pitivi

File sharing LinuxDC++ ( a DC++ port for linux)

Nerwork protocol analyser Wireshark, traceroute

Python web framework Django

typing tutor tux typing

File searching CatfFish

compression tool Archive manager, 7zip

calculator Gcalculator

virus scanner ClamTk ( amazed !!!!)

JRE OpenJdk

ebook library management calibre

chm reader xCHM

sniffer ettercap

Download manager kGet

Internet Telephony Skype

other apps : window manager tweaks, CompzConfig setting manager, ubuntu restricted extras.

If you are among those who don't fascinated by the 'ease of use' provided by the operating system or the desktop environment but look for the power and terminal is your best friend then I will suggest you to go for the Arch Linux. I assure you that you will get enough knowledge and insight of Linux from the first meet with it.

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libreprogramming growing like crazy

2011-11-29T01:51:00.001+05:30

In the last post I had talked about the new project getting out there in the web world. I had made the last post last week and at that time it was just getting started but now it has got five chapters adorned to it and it is growing at a great speed. With each passing day its popularity is going up like wild fire.

Shiv S. Dayal, the creator of this project has arrived on the blogging sphere at http://blog.libreprogramming.org/ . He will be now interacting with the world using his blog. You can interact with him, ask questions, give suggestion and can be part of the project.

He has put the blog some hour ago and he is now working on making his blog more helpful for the readers. He is working to create his own chatting app ideal for his blog to directly interact with the reader and can resolve their problem.

As I have stated earlier that libreprogramming is in its nascent stage hence the wordpress has been used for the blog however development of content management system has been kicked off as the child project. Due to lack of volunteers and capital in the project, Shiv S Dayal has to work for much elongated period of time after returning from his usual office work.

You can follow him at http://twitter.com/shivsdayal.

Best place to learn programming

2011-11-23T17:32:00.001+05:30

There are plethora of C programming books available in the market and tonnes of resources available on the web but I have found none of the book complete enough to crunch my all programming desires and queries. I have spent a lot of time just searching the basics of programming.
Then one day I landed on a site which made my eyes to open wide. It is http://www.libreprogramming.org/ It helped me to go and grab the roots of the C language. However this project is in nascent stage and still evolving with each passing jiffy.
The project libreprogramming.org has been started by Shiv S. Dayal, an ex-student of IIT Kharagpur. He is an open source loving guy and hence providing the fruits of his hard labour for free to the world. He has explained every bits and byes of C programming language, however only few chapters have been posted. The project is building up on the back of a single person, hence bear with some typing errors which will be surely removed within a couple of days. The project aims at providing the high quality books on programming languages like C, C++, Python including data structures and algorithm.
Even if you have completed the C and happy with your knowledge, I will suggest you to have a look at this book and believe me you will be more happier. I strongly recommend it for the newbie of programming. It not only teaches you the C language but the art of programming in the *nix environment.

Well, now I should return to the libreprogramming.org to see if a new chapter has been added!!

HTML5 : An evolution which branded as a revolution

2011-10-25T11:30:00.000+05:30

If you have any minor connection with web development then you must be engulfed by the brightness of HTML5 which is now taking a shape of a brand. It is being treated as a revolution in web development field but I tell you that its an evolution. Evolution of HTML4. But no one can deny the importance of HTML5 in the future. However it is still evolving and thus getting more strength with each passing day.
   I am starting here a series of HTML5 tutorial posts which will not just include the technical aspects but I will also provide the complete exposure of HTML5.

   The contents provided here may be scattered and not organised at the best. You may find several materials posted later than they require. Since the specifications of HTML5 is still evolving and thus the final specification may be with more elements or few elements may be discarded. Many of the features may not be supported by all the browsers but they may get support in the future.

  My next post will be the first post for this series, which is : "Evolution of HTML5". In this post I am going to talk about the development of HTML5, what is it and what not, why we need to learn it etc.
   I am coming soon.....

Trivia Pot : 2

2011-05-11T21:44:00.000+05:30

Trivia pot : 2

Here’s I am back with some more facts and Trivia….

Ø A study by Dell some time ago claimed that 12,000 laptops go lost, missing or are stolen each week in the US!

Ø Although the iPod started selling in 2001 it wasn’t until 1.5 years later that Apple sold a Windows compatible iPod – the second generation iPod

Ø The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo (1991) was so named because it activated itself on March 6, the birth day of the famous renaissance painter. The virus attacked the boot sector of hard drives and any floppy drive inserted into a computer. Upon activation it destroyed data.

Ø The DVORAK keyboard is said to be at least 70% more efficient than a QWERTY keyboard.

Ø Apple too had some flop launches in its time. Their famous Lisa line which preceded Macintosh, didn’t sell very well. In 1989, Apple disposed of approximately 2,700 unsold Lisas in a guarded landfill in Logan, Utah, in order to receive a tax write-off on the unsold inventory.

Ø The QWERTY keyboard was designed to prevent jams on a keyboard. The early typewriters used arms to impress a letter on paper. If neighbouring keys were used in rapid succession, then the arms were likely to jam, which was a serious issue. The keyboard was designed to prevent commonly used key combinations from being next to each other. It is widely believed that the keyboard was designed to slow down typists, which is not true.

Ø The name ‘worm’ appeared in the 1970 movie ‘Shockwave Rider’ to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network. Apple based their Lisa (later Macintosh) operating system on work done on graphical user interfaces at PARC which was run by Xerox. It was here that the idea of the desktop and the mouse as we have it today was created.

Ø ICQ was the first instant messenger program, and that’s notable because it’s still running, although it’s been bought by AOL.

Ø Sony’s VAIO stands for ‘Video Audio Integrated Operation’

Ø The Japanese version of MS Office has a character you can’t find in any other version. The ‘Offi ce Lady’ is a virtual assistant that bows and serves tea.

Ø David Bradley wrote the code for the [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Del] key sequence.

Ø A typical fiber-optic cable five thousandths of an inch thick can carry up to 2.5 billion bits of data per second, or 32,000 simultaneous telephone calls

Ø In the mid-1980s, engineers at Apple Computer developed a high-speed method of transferring data to and from the hard drives in Macintosh desktops while simplifying the internal cabling. They called it FireWire.

Facts and Trivia Pot : 1

2011-05-09T17:00:00.000+05:30

Here are some Facts and Trivia collected by me since last few months

Named after the McIntosh variety of Apples, the first Macintosh was released in 1984. It was the first commercially successful personal computer to have a graphical user interface and a mouse.

IBM holds the record for the most number of patents held by any company or individual in the world. An astounding 29,021 patents in the last 12 years!

Lenovo stands for “new legend”. It’s an amalgamation of the words “Le” for legend and “novo” for new.

According to a study paper on ResourceSaver.org,

One metric ton of electronic scrap from personal computers could get you more gold than that recovered from 17 tons of gold ore!

Grace Hopper, a woman Admiral in the navy, was the inventor of COBOL. Admiral Hopper wrote COBOL to be a programming language for general business use. It was supposed to be easier to understand than either Fortran or assembly language.

Estimates suggest as much as 50 percent of the power used in desktop PCs is wasted as heat and expelled through fans on the power supply.

The world’s most widely used operating system, Windows, was originally named interface manager.

Alexander Graham Bell originally wanted the greeting for the telephone to be “Ahoy” but Thomas Edison voted for “Hello,” a word he coined in 1877.

A ‘blue-bomb’ is a technique for causing the Windows operating system of someone you are communicating with to crash.

Most intercontinental Internet traffic passes through underwater fibre optic cables. The first such layout was across the Atlantic, in 1988.

The idea of Bluetooth technology was born in 1994. The name Bluetooth is derived from a Danish Viking King, Harald Blatand - translated as Bluetooth in English - who lived in the latter part of the 10th century. Blatand united and controlled Denmark and Norway, hence the inspiration for the name, as in ‘uniting devices through Bluetooth’.

Programs that are small and un-useful, but demonstrate a point, are called ‘Noddy’ programs. Noddy programs are often written by people learning a new language or system. The archetypal noddy program is the “hello world” program, which is simply a program that outputs the phrase. In North America, this might be called a ‘Mickey Mouse’ program.

Stinger was the codename Microsoft used for its smart phone platform that was unveiled in 2001, now called Windows Mobile.

The Palm OS fits in less than 100K, which is less than one per cent the size of Windows 98 or the Mac OS.

LISP is a programming language written in LISP itself. When you define functions in LISP, the entire language gets modified.

supershashikant : story of Mini-Bo

2011-05-07T14:09:00.000+05:30

It was December 2008 when I was running sort of any good name for my ****** account. Actually I was in search of such a name that was unique or which give zero result or at least very few results on googling it. Then the word supershashikant triggered in my mind and I adopted it as my web nick name. The best part is that ‘supershashikant’ was completely free from the reach of any other web walker and thus I landed on a safer name. well…..exception exist everywhere to create some dilution in the symmetry and so happened with my super name at youtube. But it’s not the juiciest topic to talk upon. So I will decompose this topic here and take a new route.
    My last two posts were dedicated to the Ojass : our annual techno-management fest. Now It’s over and it held very nicely. It is one of the few events which cost great deal of mental and physical labour of students. My last two posts were the combined spirit of a blogger and a P.R Team member of Ojass’11. Ojass enjoys large participation from NIT Jamshedpur and other engineering colleges of India including IITs and NITs every year. The theme of this year’s Ojass was “Going Green” emphasis was lain on using the Green Technology in everyday life. Three days; April 1 to April 3, were packed with the whole bunch of technical stuffs ranging from robotics to softrace. This year Ojass plugged many new events which were unique and still undiscovered by the tech-fest of other prominent engineering colleges of India including IITs and other NITs. For better grip, please land on the Ojass official website.
    Being a computer science student, I was ready to compete in prelims of the competitions of my concern but in addition to that I was tempted to create something physical and of course Robotics could crunch this desire. Three Shashi got together to build up our first Robot of our life. We were not placing our aim to win the event but to enjoy the building process and to play with it after its successful built-up. We all three were completely new in it and had zero experience in Robot development. After a few days we added another member to reduce the cost per person and to complete the team. We had a lot of fun in building it. There were many robotics events but we were participating in “Shape Shifter”. We were thinking freely and doing each and every job by ourselves but when we looked to the other teams, they were serious and they had big and beautiful plans for winning the event.   Contrary to this, we were tension free and we freed-up our thoughts to fly in any direction and worked according to our own thoughts. We also helped our friends in welfare for their fitness by giving them a chance to laugh after watching our Bot(Robot). When we finished with its development, it looked very strange to others. We had used very general things from our surrounding instead of buying special components and had done all jobs by ourselves to reduce the cost so that can save some of our pocket money from burning out in the Bot. We were confused in providing it a name. Since it was small, so I called it “Mini-Bo”. I got it after dropping ‘T’ from the word ‘mini Bot’. We used for our play in this process we had done a lot of practice with it. We handled it in all possible circumstances.
      Now we were in the Arena Hall. A large number of teams had participated and its count was still gearing high. We were feeling embarrassed after watching the neatly and beautifully manufactured Bots of other teams. Some Bots were looking so neatly build that i assumed it to be made by professionals of a company for the sell in the market. Anyway, we couldn’t hide our ‘Mini-Bo’ for a long as we have to get into the arena for qualifying round. We had seen many great looking Bots working so ugly that their owner could only dream to get into next rounds. Specially girls feel better to spend money than to get their hands dirty with the Bot. Few controllers were controlling their bots in such a way as they were riding a mad horse. At the arena I concluded that girls always love beauty. Their bots were looking beautiful and nice as they are crafted by experienced persons but very little work had been done on its mechanism. We were hating ourselves for not making our ‘Mini-Bo’ eye capturing, it was rather ugly.
   Our turn for performance came and we scored ...............the maximum!!!! It was not a luck but it was the result of our genuine hard work and great practice. We had worked for the thing and we got the fruits. We had watered the plant at its roots without worrying for cleaning the leaves to make it nice looking. In further rounds also we were at the top. Final was consisting of two halves. I first half we had scored much greater than our competitor and we required to just prick a single balloon to become the champion. We did more than the required and all finished for our favour.
   Later we came to know that the team which had reached in the final with us was winner of robotics event in many NITs. We were the most junior in designation, in experience and in knowledge but now, we have the trophy. Same type of matter was there when I was selected in the final round of web-weavers. My team name ‘Techflair’ was single name from first year batch and this team was the only team which had only one member, that was I, myself.
I haven’t written here to boost but I am just revealing my personal experience. Most of the first year students (if not every) have same circumstances like mine. I will suggest all first year students to take part in all such events because its for you. When we are junior we always compete with seniors or batch mates and its always beneficial. You will not feel embarrassed after losing because you have been defeated by your seniors but in case you win then it will be a great confidence booster for you. Don’t look at others for an idea or any plan. There are endless ideas sleeping in your own mind, you need to search for it.
      After this summer vacation I will be in next semester and juniors will come to cover the place behind us. Really, it is painful for me to lose the title of junior. Being junior, I have learn a lot.

   If you have done really very well in AIEEE exam, then you can opt NIT Jamshedpur at higher place in the counseling. I welcome my potential juniors for the next batch...........Take care........I'll be back here in a couple of days.....

Pwn2Own 2011 hacking contest set to roll on

2011-03-04T01:58:00.001+05:30

Do you consider yourself a hacker, efficient enough to crack world's top four browser and can dive deep into them to catch bugs. If yes then continue reading and jump over to the contest(whose name is pinned at the title itself) after finishing with this post.

The contest, which starts March 9, pits researchers against four browsers -- Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla's Firefox -- as well as against smartphones running Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows 7 Phone and RIM's BlackBerry OS.
As the Pwn2Own contest gets closer, browser vendors are toughening up their browsers for the upcoming onslaught. Recent releases of the Firefox 3.5.17 and 3.6.14, and Thunderbird 3.1.8 have patched a number of vulnerabilities in the browsers that could have been exploited during the contest.
This comes just a little while after Google patched a number of vulnerabilities in its own Chrome browser, in advance of the competition. A total of $125,000 are at stake this year out of which $20,000 comes from Google themselves, for those who can crack the Google Chrome browser.
The order in which researchers will tackle a target is assigned by a random drawing, and the contest is winner-take-all: Only the first to hack a browser or Smartphone walks off with the money.
And that has Charlie Miller, an analyst for the Baltimore-based consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), -- and the only researcher to have won at Pwn2Own three years running.
As per Pwn2Own rules, TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) bug bounty program acquires the rights to the winning vulnerabilities and exploits, and swears the researcher to secrecy. ZDI then reports the bugs to the corresponding vendor, and gives that vendor six months to patch the problem before releasing any information to the public.

Aaron Portnoy, manager of TippingPoint's security research team and the organizer of Pwn2Own for each of its five years, won't distribute cash prizes for all successful hacks this year -- a practice it did in 2008, when it gave $5,000 for each zero-day exploit-- it will pay for bugs that researchers don't get a chance to use.

"We are still offering money through the normal [ZDI] program for any vulnerabilities the contestants didn't get a chance to use," said Portnoy. "In fact, we are likely able to offer a higher amount of [ZDI] reward points if the submitted information is legitimate and exploitation is demonstrated."

ZDI does not disclose its bug bounty fee schedule, but awards “reward points"-- akin to frequent flier miles -- that contributors can cash in for one-time payments.

Pwn2Own is scheduled to run March 9-11 at CanSecWest a security conference held each year in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Let your hands dirty with codes and show off your 1337 geek snoozing inside you......Are you ready...!!!!

NIT Jamshedpur at the Top of the World

2011-02-19T17:21:00.000+05:30

At last Indian thrust produced fruits and the year 2010 proved to be lucky for India, as first time in the last 25 years of history of Formula SAE, any Indian team won first prize. Formula SAE is a student design event conducted by Society of Automobile Engineers. It began over 25 years ago in USA with a few of universities and now serves as one of the major organizations working in the field of spreading automobile knowledge. The event is organized in 8 different countries round a year that includes Australia, UK, Germany, USA, Italy, Brazil, and Japan. In 2010, it held from December 9-12in Melbourne(Australia)
Drift Racing Team of NIT Jamshedpur won the title for COST REPORT and PRESENTATION EVENT and became the first Indian team to win this and first team in the world to win it in its very first event. The 13-member team Team could not take part in dynamic events but participated in static events and won the event of cost report (the most economic car )which is meant for making the best car with optimum resources and cost without compromising the performance. It was the only team there that was not with the car but amazed the judges by winning the Cost event.
For better detail and more information continue reading the following 'Drift Racing Team- Press Release 16-12-2010'

Drift Racing Team- Press Release 16-12-2010

Formula SAE

Formula SAE is a student design event conducted by Society of Automobile Engineers. It began over 25 years ago in USA with a few of universities and now serves as one of the major organizations working in the field of spreading automobile knowledge. The event is organized in 8 different countries round a year that includes Australia, UK, Germany, USA, Italy, Brazil, and Japan.

It challenges students to design, built and race a one man, open wheeled race car assuming that they have been engaged by a manufacturing firm to produce a prototype car for evaluation as a potential production item. The resisted car engine capacity and a set of rules lay by SAE forces students to widen their realm of creativity and imagination and think out of box. The vehicle is tested for its aerodynamic design, high performance, acceleration, braking and handling. It also engages student to master skills of both engineering and non-engineering fields.

History in India

The following colleges in India have participated in International Formula SAE competitions:

Delhi College of Engineering,Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University,Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,Indian institute of technology , Delhi,Indian institute of technology , Kharagpur,K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai,Laxmi Devi Institute of Engineering and Technology,Manipal University,Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology,Thapar University and others……..

Formula SAE has also been started in India last year and is strengthening with more than 60 colleges participating this year.

“Drift Racing Team”- from National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur representing INDIA, successfully participated in the static event of Formula-SAE Australasia 2010, and finished 1^st in the event-“COST REPORT and PRESENTATION EVENT” among 30 teams from different universities of Australia, USA, Japan South Korea ,New Zealand and India.

· Formula SAE Australasia event is an annual International Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Event, in which teams from universities across the world, design, build and race a prototype racing car. The event was judged by engineers from eclectic international Automobile companies such as Ford, Mitsubishi, Toyota and Hyundai. This event was held at Victoria University, Australia.

· For the year 2010, Drift Racing Team owes its success to NIT Jamshedpur as well as its Golden Sponsor TATA STEEL for its constant support for our endeavor. We are very thankful to our honorable Chairman Mr. B. Muthuraman and our Director, Prof. Rajnish Srivastava, without whose support and encouragement such an achievement would not have been possible.

· We would also like to thank our bronze sponsors- AIADA Industrial region which includes Shokhi Engineering Company, Hard Rock Fabrications, Ramakrishna Forging, Auto-Fibre craft, and Garg Industries for their support and also Eaton Electronics, USA for their technical support.

· However, we could not take our car to Australia due to lack of sponsorship funds and delay in arrival of imported automotive parts from abroad. But still, we never gave up our hope and gave our best effort in spite of such conditions.

· Moreover, the future looks bright for our car and we will be able to upgrade our car with new imported parts by March 2011 and participate in FORMULA STUDENT UK, which will be held in July 2011.

· Drift racing team is the First Indian team to win in an international Formula SAE event and is first team to win in its very first event. Earlier Drift racing team was second runner up at FSAE India design challenge 2009.

We could not participate in the dynamic events as we did not have the car but the team won the static event of cost report (the most economic car )which is meant for making the best car with optimum resources and cost without compromising the performance. Ours was the only team there that was not with the car but amazed the judges by winning the Cost event.

The team had crossed many hurdles while designing the car. Though we did our best to design the car virtually on paper and computer monitors but we couldn’t manufacture the car on time due to lack of funds, also the members who had made India proud at Australia had to participate in the event on their own expenses. Now, we are planning to participate in FORMULA-SAE U.K. from 13^th July, 2011 to 17^th July, 2011 with the same spirit and positive hope.

Specification Sheet of the Car:

Car Type	4 wheel, single open cockpit, formula style
Frame Construction	Steel space frame using SAE 4130 steel tubes
Overall Dimensions L/W/H (mm)	2100mm/1450mm/1180mm
Wheelbase	1575mm
Track Width (front/rear) in mm	1250/1200mm
Target weight with driver	270kg
Suspension	4 wheel independent, push rods actuated non-parallel ‘A’ arms
Drive Type	Rear Wheel driven
Differential	Chain drive
Brake System	Twin rotor on front and single differential mounted rotor at rear, bias adjustable
Steering System	Customized steering design
Tyres	Goodyear R13 , D2696
Engine	HONDA CBR 600cc mpfi, supercharged by EATON M24 supercharger
Fuel	93-100 octane Petrol

Comments by judges

Technical judges present at the event said that the car was designed after a “lot of hard work” and was “innovative” and the reports made were “different from other teams” and “very comprehensive” as compared to other FSAE teams. The SAE President along with other SAE officials also said that with the DR211 design, the NIT team would have been “very competitive” and “would have definitely done well” at this year’s competition.

Cost Estimate for Project Formula SAE-NIT Jamshedpur 2010-2011	INR

Competition Expenditure
I. Registration for Formula SAE Australasia(in July 2010)	1,73,000
II. Car Shipping*	7,00,000
III. Team travel & Accomodation*	5,00,000

Cost of the Car DR211
I. Engine (Honda CBR 600cc superbike)	2,80,000
II.Engine Modification#	1,20,000
III.Chassis	40,000
IV. Suspension#	90,000
V. Tyres( 2 set)*	90,000
VI. Alloy Wheels (2 set)*	60,000
VII. Brakes*	25,000
VIII. Steering*	20,000
IX. Electrical*	15,000
X. Transmission#	75,000
XI.Gear Shifter	60,000	:
XII. Driver's safety Equipments*	90,000
XIII. Outer Body and wings*	80,000
XIV. Aerodynamics*	10,000
XV. Miscellaneous (Nuts , Bolts & Tools)*	25,000
Car Development Cost:	10,80,000
Total cost: 24,53,000 *-yet to be procured
#-partially procured

The Team:

Faculty Advisor: Prof. Shalendra Kumar

Captain: Uttam Kumar

S.NO	NAME	BRANCH
1	Uttam Kumar	Mechanical Engineering
2	Turam Purty	Metallurgical Engineering
3	Saikat Shekhar Sardar	Metallurgical Engineering
4	Rahul	Mechanical Engineering
5	Rahul Singh	Mechanical Engineering
6	Rahul kumar	Mechanical Engineering
7	Alok kr. Verma	Civil Engineering
8	Nitin Agarwal	Civil Engineering
9	Tahir Sousa	Electronics & Comm. Engg.
10	Vamsee Krishna Tangirala	Electronics & Comm. Engg.
11	Aditya Kumar	Mechanical Engineering
12	Soumyadeep Viswas	Mechanical Engineering
13	Alok Srivastava	Mechanical Engineering

Saikat Shekhar Sardar, Nitin Agarwal and Tahir Sousa went to Australia for participation in FSAE Australasia 2010 on their own expenses due to lack of funds.

The Wired Station

2011-02-02T16:56:00.000+05:30

The wired image

computer = comput+er= computing error

Reaching sky

No network......Brain Hacked....

The Tech Pack Here

2011-01-27T15:15:00.000+05:30

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