Jaipur leg Improvements

In developing countries where people can't afford artificial legs, Jaipur foot is just like a miracle. I hope you have heard about Jaipur Foot. If not you can read about it here. The Jaipur Leg is a rubber-based prosthetic leg for people with below-knee amputations, produced under the guidance of Dr. P. K. Sethi by Masterji Ram Chander in 1969. The Jaipur Foot is easy to manufacture prosthetic foot that gives patients the ability to do many things that they could do with an actual foot (running, climbing, etc). It has been an extraordinary achievement for a country like India where more than 30 percent of the population still earns less than 1 dollar a day. It costs around $45 and more than 17000 get this leg every year.

Our Objective:

Though NGO who build Jaipur's foot is doing extraordinary research work to improve Jaipur's foot still there is a large scope for improvement.

Waste Management Machine

As every year passes, the concern over waste increases steadily. Based on incomplete reports from its parties, the Basel Convention estimated 338 million tonnes of waste was generated in 2001. Though above-mentioned estimate is not officially correct it gives us an idea that how much waste we produce each year.

We all know about conditions near the waste sites and dumps, due to these difficult conditions, it is not always possible for humans to do all tasks(collection, transport, processing or disposal, managing and monitoring of waste materials ) involved in Waste Management.

Joystick control car drive mechanism for physically challenged people

We often see that persons with a disability need to use mobility car. Mobility Car is a vehicle issued to a disabled person, to allow them to travel without the burden of their disability. Mobility cars are obtained from a scheme called "Motability". But this car too not come with some preconditions and these conditions are difficult to meet for severely disabled people. Moreover, driving a car is always difficult for a person with having control distributed all over.

This project is for engineering students and would be extremely useful for people who impair their physical abilities

Our objective:
We want to build a car that can be operated by using a joystick. If we can build that, it would be a great help for disabled persons.

Why we need this type of system?

The existing system in the market is modified to allow the physically disabled to drive but it still needs lots of improvements.

Produce Fuel using Solar Energy

Scientists around the world are working towards the goal of developing technologies to harness energy from the sun to produce fuels for transport, industry and electricity generation. Fuels produced using solar energy would transform our future energy options by providing an alternative to fossil fuels. Solar energy, radiant light, and heat from the sun have been harnessed by humans since ancient times using a range of ever-evolving technologies. Solar energy technologies include solar heating, solar photovoltaics, solar thermal electricity and solar architecture, which can make considerable contributions to solving some of the most urgent problems the world now faces. We all know about the ever-growing energy needs of our world.

 If we can use it to produce fuel, it would be a milestone for us and for our future generation. Many types of research around the world are working on this project.

Solar Powered automatic rain operated wiper

We have discussed many projects related to solar energy and we are going to discuss many more in the next few months. In this post, we will see how we can use sunlight in an automobile.  

Though this project has been implemented by many companies, it would be great to build one for yourself in a lab or as your final year project. When I was thinking about this project, I thought it would be great if we can build it as an extension of rain sensor wipers project idea. 

It is very easy to build and needs very few components. Rain Operated Motor consists of a conduction sensor(Tough Sensor) circuit, Control Unit, Wiper Motor, and Glass Frame.