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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Time for Efficiency Optimization


YIF journey has been a life-changer for each of the Young India Fellows. Especially for our team viSparsh, managing a technical project alongside an intensive liberal arts course has been tough. We have been working many days and nights to quickly complete the 1st phase of our ELM (to build viSparsh belt prototype). However, the demanding coursework and other activities at YIF also consumed effective part of our time. Thus, we finally understood the urgency for effective time management for our project which we were not able to strictly abide to earlier. As per the guidance of our mentor Prof. Rahul Mangharam, to start with we decided of chalking out a plan for our coming two weeks. Given below is the work allocation for our next two weeks:
– Resolving Issues coming with Kinect on Beagleboard(Tushar- 16/11/11)
– Completing all installation work( including OS and Kinect) on PandaBoard (Jatin-17/11/11)
– Talking to organizations like Kritical Solutions and Saksham NGO (suggested by YIFP admin) to get inputs from visually impaired people, knowing about their issues and talking to other people already working in this field. (Rolly-30/11/11)
– Making PCB for the project (Jatin-22/11/11)
– Integrating all components (Tushar-26/11/11)
– Making Initial Project with Belt (Tushar-26/11/11)
– Updating Blog, contacting people and other communications (Rolly- on regular basis)
Alongside, this initial work distribution we would be soon making a proper timeline till the end of our project to help us keep better track of the project and work accordingly to meet the deadlines.

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Time for Efficiency Optimization


YIF journey has been a life-changer for each of the Young India Fellows. Especially for our team viSparsh, managing a technical project alongside an intensive liberal arts course has been tough. We have been working many days and nights to quickly complete the 1st phase of our ELM (to build viSparsh belt prototype). However, the demanding coursework and other activities at YIF also consumed effective part of our time. Thus, we finally understood the urgency for effective time management for our project which we were not able to strictly abide to earlier. As per the guidance of our mentor Prof. Rahul Mangharam, to start with we decided of chalking out a plan for our coming two weeks. Given below is the work allocation for our next two weeks:
– Resolving Issues coming with Kinect on Beagleboard(Tushar- 16/11/11)
– Completing all installation work( including OS and Kinect) on PandaBoard (Jatin-17/11/11)
– Talking to organizations like Kritical Solutions and Saksham NGO (suggested by YIFP admin) to get inputs from visually impaired people, knowing about their issues and talking to other people already working in this field. (Rolly-30/11/11)
– Making PCB for the project (Jatin-22/11/11)
– Integrating all components (Tushar-26/11/11)
– Making Initial Project with Belt (Tushar-26/11/11)
– Updating Blog, contacting people and other communications (Rolly- on regular basis)
Alongside, this initial work distribution we would be soon making a proper timeline till the end of our project to help us keep better track of the project and work accordingly to meet the deadlines.

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