Ansh Verma is a Master’s Student in School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University since Fall 2013. He completed his undergraduate (B.Tech Mechanical) degree from SRM University, India. During his undergraduate studies he was the design engineer for his university’s FSAE Team. He subsequently spent his 7th Semester (Fall 2011) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA in the school of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. He completed his final year thesis work from MIT Media Labs, working with “Opera Of the Future” group. In 2012, he worked part-time with a national level news channel in India – NDTV, as a journalist providing assistance in making documentaries and in parallel cleared his Indian Air-force selection examination (SSB). His present research at C-Desgin Labs, focuses on Human Computer Interaction techniques like tangible media, input devices, micro-controller based intelligent systems, flexible circuits and wearable computing.



What can you make with cardboard and tape? A robot

What can you make with cardboard and tape? A robot

There’s a new DIY robotics toolkit in town, and you don’t need to know anything about electronics or programming to use it. HandiMate, developed by researchers from Purdue and Indiana universities, lets children (or anyone else) build robots with cardboard,...