TechTop Workshop Blog: Day 24: MIT Make in India

Day 24: MIT Make in India

In the morning, I dragged my feet over to the lab and began to finish work on the finance and business presentation. We also cleaned up a bit around the lab. After lunch Forest and I went to the plastic warehouse, which is literally just a giant space with plastic everything. Plastic chairs, plastic dustbins, plastic buckets, plastic pitchers, I was literally wading in plastic. We couldn’t really find any decent plastic, so we just got two boxes. Then poor Forest had to cut the plastic boxes (which was impossible, I tried for like two seconds and failed miserably and quit) and make them into another shark prototype. While he did that I rebuilt the circuit by finding all the pieces elsewhere and put together the code for the shark. It worked! And the plastic shark was interesting as well. Now everything was done except for the mechanical aspect of the shark mouth that was just slightly not fitting with the servo.

After that, I played some carrom. I suck. But still will say better than Swapnil (I am only saying this because I want him to read this and become really angry like last time haha this is for hanging me upside down won’t forgive you). I did happen to destroy Titan, Ching-Ching, and Duncan though.

We also visited the Sarkara temple again. And then I ate ice cream thanks to Titan! Butterscotch with pista…it was delicious…and great for my throat.

Titan and me finally found ice cream!

After we came back, we finished the plastic shark and it just needed to print. I then decided to stay back and help the soap people as they had to cut and shape and package so many soaps. I tried to cut the soap, but I was really bad…it took me a while to learn where the blade actually was on the exact-o knife… And even that didn’t help.

I then decided to work on packaging (after they tried to get me to write the pitch). Ching-Ching and I decided that beautiful gift wrapping packaging looked cool. This took a while to get going, but finally I was working on it with Jaspreet. It was assembly line dream team style. During this we ate some Kurkure and heard a rather heated conversation about how the pitch should go. It was a struggle. Most of the soap team was gone and now yeah… I tried to teach others, but it didn’t really work. Some yelling happened. We finished wrapping about 60 soaps by the end. Slept at almost 4am...