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Wired IoT in a wireless world

Author : Akshay Nachappa

Today, we’re living in a world where there are more IoT connected devices than humans. These IoT connected devices and machines range from wearables like smartwatches to RFID inventory tracking chips. IoT connected devices communicate via networks or cloud-based platforms connected to the Internet of Things. For IoT devices to work, they need IP and Ethernet connections and, of course, power. About half of IoT devices are connected to wireless networks, and the other half are still wired. Wireless IoT is known to all, let's look into the other side of the coin.

Challenges of wired IoT network

IoT technology is deployed in many ways so no single network solution is right. It depends on the situation and where the devices are located. Some of the factors affecting the selection of the type of network are network range, network bandwidth, power usage, inter-operability, intermittent connectivity and security.

The wired communication is divided into two categories:

Internal Communication: I2C, SPI

External Communication: Ethernet,RS-232,RS-485,UART,USART,USB

There are advantages and disadvantages for each communication protocol, it depends on the user  to choose the most befitting one based on the application.

Wired devices present two unique challenges: adding Power over Ethernet (PoE) and extending the Ethernet connections beyond the 330-foot cable limitations.

IoT devices face problems like security,bugs,privacy issues, to mitigate this encryption techniques,edge computations are performed which again require more power, putting this situation into a loop of power and device intelligence.

Some LAN switches also don’t support PoE on all ports. Additionally, LAN switches might not have enough ports for IoT device.Cisco has a Long Range Ethernet (LRE) solution, which leverages Very High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) technology and extends Ethernet speeds from five to 15 Mbps. 

The use of Long Range PoE (LRPoE) is a solution to the cable distance problem. With LRPoE, you can use existing UTP telephone wiring for network devices operating the standard ethernet protocol, similar to DSL technologies. 

On a brief note, the advantages and disadvantages of wired IoT are:

Advantages

Reliability - lesser dropped connections and lower latency

Speed - Factors like physical obstruction and electronic interference are mitigated

Security - Being housed on LAN,it gives complete control of communication system and highly reduced chances of hacking.

      2. Disadvantages

Cost - wiring,labor,repair and maintenance costs are incurred

Mobility - Cars,mobiles,wearables would be difficult to be connected to ethernet cables

Scalability - Planning, hardware purchase and scaling up the network with time is a drawback.

Wired or Wireless have their own set of goods and bads and it's just what ,where, and how you want to use it.

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Front End Development vs Back End Development

  Author  : Pooja S

   Two terms thrown around a lot in web industry are, front-end and back-end. It can be little frustrating since the difference between the front-end and back-end isn’t always perfectly clear. The front-end is also referred to as the client-side  and is sometimes considered “web design”. The back-end of the web industry is often called the server-side.The differences between design and development actually lead to more of a discussion around frontend and backend web work.Let's start with the frontend...

Front-End Development:

   The front-end is everything involving with what user sees.The front end of an application is the visible part of it that the user interacts with. The main purpose of the front end is to deliver effective interactivity and display of the content and data in an appealing, neat and simple to understand manner. 

Let’s talk about some of the technical skills ,tools and knowledge base required for front end development:

1.HTML:

Web pages are created by using a markup language called Hypertext Markup Language(HTML).It ia a language that is easily understood and interpreted by web browsers,and is widely used to showcase content to users.HTML and its latest version HTML5 are widely used for creating webpages.

2.CSS:

Cascading style sheets (CSS) complements HTML by providing the styling required for an attractive interface.CSS is required for the effective presentation of the webpage.

3.Javascript:

It is a dynamic programming language that is used to add interactivity to web pages,process data,as well as create various applications(mobile apps,desktop apps,games and more).It makes possible the integration of multimedia on the web page or the app page and features,such as drag-and-drop,polls,quizzes etc.It is an interpreted programming anguage with object-oriented capabilities.

In addition to fluency in these languages ,front-end developers need to be familiar with frameworks like Bootstrap,Foundation, Backbone,Angularjs and emberjs and libraries like jQuery.

Back-End Development:

The back end or the “server-side” of web development basically comprises of three components: server, application and database.

     These are the scripting languages used in back-end programming:

1.PHP:

 PHP(Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely used open source general-purpose scripting language that can be embedded into HTML,which means when the code is run on the server, HTML is generated which is sent to the user.

2.Python:

Python is a programming language which is widely used forits readability and syntax.A popular web development framework,Django,also makes Python a popular choice for building web applications.

3.Ruby:

Ruby is a dynamic,open source programming language with afocus on simplicity and productivity.Ruby has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

Some of the Database management systems used in back-end:

1.SQL:

Structured Query Language(SQL) is a universal database query Language.It is used to interact with databases,which are a part of every backend web application.

2.MySQL:

MySQL is the most popular database management system used with PHP.With its proven performance ,reliability and ease-of- use,MySQL has become the leading database choice for web-based applications,used by high profie web properties including Facebook,Twitter,You Tube,Yahoo! And many more.

     This blog is just a small part of a big sea called web development.I hope this helped many of you get clear on when people are talking about the front-end and the back-end of the web development.

 Here are some links, which may help you to learn languages required for front-end and back-end development:   

  https://www.w3schools.com

  https://www.sololearn.com

  https://www.codecademy.com

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Budget 2020 hailed as optimistic by technology sector experts. Increased incorporation of AI, ML on the cards.

The Union Budget for 2020 got cheers from many corners in the technology sector. The Budget's emphasis on ushering in a new era of governance where technology plays a major role, got applause from many. Some notable announcements include the Rs 8000 Crore mission on quantum computing,  the policy for private sector to build data center parks, etc AI found interesting mentions such as fraud detection in GST returns through deep data analytics and indirect facilitation of the builders of AI, aka startups, to get a more conducive environment. The use of AI to beat Tuberculosis by 2025 was also mentioned by the Finance Minister. While fighting Cancer with technology gets more press coverage and sympathy from people, TB is a real threat to the wellbeing of a commoner. 25% of all TB cases in the world are from India and the government looking forward to eradicating that malady from the face of the nation by leveraging ML and AI technology is commendable. Finance Minister Sitharaman plans to integrate AI through the existing Ayushman Bharat scheme While presenting the Union Budget, Finance Minister also said that technology will be used for better monitoring of the economic data, building a preventive regime for diseases under Ayushman Bharat,etc. Industry experts also hailed the Budget for its commendable strides to achieve the upper edge in the tech sector. Subho Ray, President of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) said that, "The focus on technology and digital infrastructure is a step towards realizing the trillion-dollar economy and will open up new opportunities for demand generation.”

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DENNIS RITCHIE: The shoulders Steve Jobs stood on

DENNIS RITCHIE, the man behind the scenes who created the c programming language or as they call him “Father of the C programming language”. Ritchie was born on September 9, 1941 in Bronxville, New York. His father Alistair Ritchie, was a switching system engineer at Bell Laboratories. Dennis was later moved to Summit, New Jersey with his family. Dennis graduated from Summit high school, then got a bachelors degree from Harvard  University in Physics and Applied Mathematics field in 1963, and a PhD in Mathematics in 1968 from Harvard University. He moved later to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He died on October !2, 2011, at the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey,where he lived alone.

Without Dennis Ritchie, there would be no Steve Jobs…..

Modern computing as we know it would not have existed without Dennis Ritchie, father of the C programming language and co-creator of the UNIX operating system.

 Ritchie started his carrier in 1967, as he started to work at the Bell Laboratories – Computing Sciences Research Center (One of the most famous centers of digital innovation in the world at that time and birthplace of the transistor).

Jeong Kim, president of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, said:

“DENNIS WAS WELL LOVED BY HIS COLLEAGUES AT ALCATEL-LUCENT BELL LABS, AND WILL BE GREATLY MISSED. HE WAS TRULY AN INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US, NOT JUST FOR HIS MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS, BUT BECAUSE OF WHO HE WAS AS A FRIEND, AN INVENTOR, AND A HUMBLE AND GRACIOUS MAN.”

Ritchie is best known for creating C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Ritchie spent most of his career at Bell Labs, which at the time of his joining in 1967, was one of the largest phone providers in the US and had one of the most well-known research labs in operation.

Working alongside Thompson (who had written B) at Bell in the late sixties, the two men set out to develop a more efficient operating system for the up- and –coming minicomputer, resulting in the release of UNIX in 1971. Though UNIX was cheap and compatible with just about any machine, allowing users to install a variety of software systems, the OS was written in machine language, meaning that it had a small vocabulary and suffered in relation to memory.

 By 1973, Ritchie and Thompson had rewritten UNIX in C, developing its syntax, functionary, and beyond to give the language ability to program an operating system. The kernel was published in the same year.

Today C remains the second most popular programming language in the world,and ushered in C++ and java; while the pair’s workon UNIX led to, among other things, Linus Torvald’s Linux. The work has without a doubt made Ritchie one of the most important engineers of the modern era.

“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be genius to understand the simplicity”

                       -DENNIS RITCHIE

Ritchie won many awards jointly with Thompson:

In 1983, they won Turing Award for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM. Ritchie’s Turing Award lecture was titled “Reflections on Software Research”. In 1990, they both received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), “for the origination of UNIX operating system and the C programming language”. In 1997, both were made Fellows of the Computer History Museum, “for co-creation of UNIX operating system , and for development of the C programming language”. They even received the National Medal of Technology on april 21, 1999 from president Bill Clinton.

“The only way to learn programming is by writing programs in it”

-      DENNIS RITCHIE

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Virtual worker, real money!

Author : Nimisha K (Section Editor) We’ve heard of a serial killer, but a serial entrepreneur? Oh yes, Ian Ippolito is killing it.  A serial high tech company founder, CEO and entrepreneur- Ian Ippolito set foot in the field of entrepreneurship with an engineering background. 

                Wanting to share his own source code, but was unable to find an online platform to do so, pursued with this thirst to access the unavailable, Ippolito launched Planet Source Code, a website for sharing source code of computer programs. Climbing the ladder until 2001 with over 4 million views, it failed further with the outburst of dot-com bubble. The company lost their advertisers but built an immense fan circle seeking assistance to code. Unable to reach out to them all by himself, he then launches Rent a Coder, today known as vWorker.

Basically, employers have replaced traditional workers in their office with remote/virtual workers allowing people to work from home at their own time of leisure or as a full timer. Remaining oblivious to the workers capabilities might cause issues and thus, Ippolito included protection features for both employer and contractor on Rent a Coder. The employer has the liberty to view what the employee is up to while on the contract. But HOW? Ippolito set up a program that takes screenshots of the employee’s work and allows the employer to inspect their work being fulfilled. 

What type of companies recruit such employees from vWorker? All the way from programming, logo design, marketing, paralegal work, basically anything that could be delivered over the internet. The demand and profits were exponential which grew vWorker into a $11.1 million yearly revenue business prior to selling the company. He then sold vWorker to Freelancer.com for millions. 

 With no exhaustion period, Ippolito came up with his next venture in six months. Peanut Butter and Jelly Games, aka PBJ Games, the company operates as an online skill-based game website and mobile app that allows players to win money based on their own skill as opposed to luck. The site launched in 2014 with Dollar Candy, a skill game where players match up tiles within a 60 second time frame. 

                      Ever since Ippolito has been dreaming and achieving bigger goals. His work as an entrepreneur has also led to him appearing in major publications and media outlets including Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine’s (“100 Smartest, Most Innovative and Brilliant Companies”), The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Fast Company, as well as Fox and CBS News.

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Writing Good Code

Author : Mridul Ganga

This comic is quite accurate. Every time a developer reviews someone else’s code, they wont understand many parts, sometimes the code is a bit easier to understand and the other times it doesn’t make any sense at all. 

Writing good code is very essential, as when others need to edit your code, they should be able to.

When you write code for any organisation, or your firm, or for any open source project, then your code must be editable by other developers. If they can’t, then you need to improve your coding skills.

So, in the following list I will talk about a few things you can do to make your code better and readable.

Plan your program - Whenever you code, you must have a problem, whose solution you are trying to obtain. This is a very common practice - people start with the program without having any idea about how to solve it. So before you write any code, the first thing to do is get a possible solution for the problem and identify the steps to the solution. This will give you a more clear idea of what you need to code. Moreover if its a big problem, you can divide the solution method into steps and this will make it easy and modularize the code.

Keep things Simple - Pretty often the coders will have a good solution which they figured out using their excellent intelligence. Then they code it, but not often the other developers find it easy to understand that code. Others don’t necessarily think alike. So make your code easy enough for others to understand. Even if it cost some extra lines, its a requirement.

Avoid Repetitive code - Yes, many times, unplanned programs have tons of repetitive code, so first thing to do is properly plan the code, if the code is repeating more than twice, it shouldn’t, make a single function or class for it and call that. This will also make it more readable and short.

Avoid patching - Another unplanned program’s side effect, you can’t get a solution to a problem, you do something, add something  and it started working, even you don’t know what you did. So the next time you modify the code, you add even more patches and make the code work somehow, even if a simple unnoticeable thing goes wrong you wont be able to debug the code.

Be consistent - Programmers will often start with some strategy and as they progress they run out of coffee and they start coding in a completely different way, the people reading it wont be able to understand the difference and it will relatively be tough for the original developer to understand the state of his mind when he was coding that part of the program.

Keep the code clean - Very often the beginners will start with the code, and not care about spacing, indentation and line breaks etc. They do this as all they care about is functionality of the program and not how it looks. This makes it near impossible to debug or even understand the code - not just by others but even the ones who wrote the code. So give proper spacing, indentations.

Comment the code - If you are writing some code and it has all the above features, even then only the expert and experienced programmers will get your code. So to make your code readable by most, please comment it (heavily).

If you want to add more points or find something wrong here, please comment them below.

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Set up Nginx web server on Linux

Author : Mridul Ganga

To host dynamic websites on your machine you need a web server. This guide will help you with Installing and using a web server on your Linux machine.

We will only be installing – Nginx Web Server , PHP Pre-processor and the MySQL database. So to setup your Web Server and start making websites, go on

Following are the most popular Web Servers –

Apache

Nginx (Engine X)

Microsoft IIS

Unicorn

Installing Nginx on Linux (Ubuntu based systems)

Nginx is a very good server for the Linux platform. It is very light and has all the features you need.

Step 1

Open terminal and run these commands, we are installing Nginx. (I skipped the update command)

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nginx

Step 2

Next we install the MySQL server.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

If your repositories are up to date, then after running the above commands it will automatically take you to a setup screen where you need to enter the root password. In case you don’t get the setup screen, you need to manually run the setup script.

sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Step 3

We now install the PHP parser for Nginx,  and PHP libraries to connect to the MySQL database.

sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql

Step 4

We need to make a change in the PHP.ini file which was just installed, to make it work well with Nginx. So open  “/etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini” using admin privileges in any text editor. For using nano –

sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini

Find the “cgi.fix_pathinfo” entry, un-comment it and set it to zero.

cgi.fix_pathinfo=0

Step 5

This step is important. We will open the Nginx configuration, and add the PHP parser info(to make it use the PHP parser) and the root directory path (where we keep the files). So open the Nginx conficuration

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

I would suggest to replace all the contents of the configuration file with the following, but feel free to play with it. Note that the root directory should be the directory you want to keep your website in. Make a backup of the original file. Also note that, in few machines the PHP version installed might be different, so make the change accordingly, or lookup the right configuration on the web.

server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server; #this is my home directory root /home/mridul/www; #index.php must be in front index index.php index.html index.htm; server_name myserver; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } #any file ending with php will go through this location ~ \.php$ { include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; } #don't let them have the .ht files location ~ /\.ht { deny all; } }

Run the following command to verify the configuration

sudo nginx -t

Step 6 Restart PHP and Nginx

sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm sudo systemctl reload nginx

We are almost done now. Open your home folder /home/mridul/ (in my case) and create a folder named www. You can use the following command to do this.

mkdir /home/mridul/www

Next create a PHP file in the www folder named index.php and add some PHP code in it. Now open the web browser and goto http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1 You should be able to see your website here!

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NIE Summer of Code 4.0 Report

Author : Mridul Ganga

Summary

NIE IEEE Student Branch organised NIE Summer of Code which was a five days workshop starting 1st june to 5th june consisting of both hardware and software topics. It was held at Golden Jublee Block (Hardware) and Browsing center (Software). There were more than 90 participants from different colleges all over Karnataka.

The event started at 8:45 for Hardware group and 9:30 for the Software group. All the Participants were informed (by email) about the course plan and the timings one day prior to the start of  the event. The Participants were also sent a reminder message 1 hr before the start of the event.

Software Summary

In the Software Group, the teaching part was handled by multiple organising members. The HTML, CSS and Bootstrap was handled by Gunjan and Aditya Sinha, python was handled  by Akanksha and Rishabh Dev Manu, Flask was handled by Mridul Ganga, Cryptography was handled by Anirudh and Gopika, lastly Amazon Web Services was handled by Milan Menezes.

Apart from the speaker, the other software group members were constantly clearing doubts of all the participants and made sure that they were at pace.

Hardware Summary

In the Hardware Group , the teaching part was handled by the organising members. Basics of atmega was taught by Asfia Armaan. Interfacing of LCD and bluetooth module with atmega16 was taught by Rakesh Roshan Bhat. Serial communication was taken up by Adithya Sanjeev B. Interfacing of ultrasonic sensor was taught by Sudhanshu Sharma.Timers and interrupts was taken up by Prathvi Rao. ADC was taught by Surabhi Shetty. Building of bots was taken up by Limita Shetty.

Apart from the speaker , rest of the members were clearing the doubts and helped in getting the output.

Code Availability

All of the content delivered to the participants is also available on github.com

https://github.com/nisbweb/NSOC4

Hardware Track Itinerary

DAY 1:

Basics of ATMEGA with Coding

Soldering

LCD Module

DAY 2:

ADC

Serial Communication

DAY 3:

Bluetooth Module

DAY 4:

Timer and Interrupts

Bots

DAY 5:

Hackathon

Software Track Itinerary

DAY 1:

Introduction to HTML and CSS

Introduction to  Python

DAY 2:

Python and Flask

Bootstrap

DAY 3:

Cryptography

DAY 4:

Amazon Web Services

DAY 5:

Hackathon

Technical Talks

Mr. Anoop Chandra

He is a software engineer at Hewlett Packard . He was an alumni of Nie, he was also the technical coordinator of Nisb in the year 2014-15.

He has been involved in many projects ,few among them are;

thinkera which is a presentation tool built with the power of CSS3 transforms and impress.jss framework,

Precision agriculture using IOT which is a crop recommendation system to assist farmers to cultivate better crops, etc.

Mr. Swanand Patwardhan

He has pursued his diploma in Mechatronics and BE in mechanical engineering.

He has four years of experience in Godrej and Boyce as an industrial robotics engineer

He has done several projects on low cost automation, lean manufacturing, pneumatics and PLC programming

He has also worked in Infosys and has 1.5 years of experience in soft skills and management training.

Hackathon

Hackathon for both hardware and software tracks were conducted on 5th June at GJB and browsing centre respectively .

Here the participants were required to solve the given problems and build the project for the same within the given span of time .

Valedictory ceremony

Valedictory ceremony was held at 5th June in MV hall at 4.0pm . Faculty advisor Mr MJ Yogesh and the HOD of CSE Dr H.D. Phaneendra along with the tequip coordinator were the chief guests for the function. Report of NSOC 4.o was read out by the chairperson of NISB followed by the prize distribution of the winners of hackathon and later all the participants were provided with participation certificate .

Pictures

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Machine Learning beyond Python and R !

Author : Chawat

Machine Learning , AI and Big Data are the top technologies today evolving with a rapid pace and almost all of these are implemented in Python or R.

Python is the most popular choice because of it’s simple syntax and large number of Libraries but Python isn’t the best choice because it is dynamically typed which slows it down.

So , what are the other languages available ?

1. Golang

Go was created at Google in 2009. Go is known for it’s Fast-Compilation , Multi Core functionality , Concurrency , C like syntax and Strong typing .

A number of Libraries are available :

These are some of the most popular libraries for general ML and Neural Nets:

     golearn  – https://github.com/sjwhitworth/golearn

     gago        – https://github.com/MaxHalford/gago

     GoNN      – https://github.com/fxsjy/gonn

Popular libraries for Natural Language Processing and Decision Forests:

     Word Embedding – https://github.com/ynqa/word-embedding

     CloudForest  – https://github.com/ryanbressler/CloudForest

     RF  – https://github.com/fxsjy/RF.go

Libraries for Image Processing and Data Visualisation:

     bimg            – https://github.com/h2non/bimg

     go-graph  – https://github.com/StepLg/go-graph

2. Scala

Libraries for general ML and Decision Trees:

   Conjecture         – https://github.com/etsy/Conjecture

   SwiftLearner  – https://github.com/valdanylchuk/swiftlearner/

   ganitha                – https://github.com/tresata/ganitha

   brushfire            – https://github.com/stripe/brushfire

Popular libraries for Data Visualisation:

   MLlib in Apache Spark  – http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/mllib-guide.html

    Hydrosphere Mist  – https://github.com/Hydrospheredata/mist

    PredictionIO              – https://github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio

    Flink                                –  http://flink.apache.org/

    Spark Notebook     –  http://spark-notebook.io/

Natural Language Processing:

    Breeze          – https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze

    FACTORIE  –  https://github.com/factorie/factorie

    Chalk             – https://github.com/scalanlp/chalk

Just two ?

No , the above two are my favourite choice. There are other languages like Julia , Lua , Java & C++ which have some great ML libraries. So , you might check them as well.

My views on Python

Python is a very powerful language with a lot of libraries and it’s simple syntax. It is thus  very Addictive but it is that simple and easy syntax of the language that makes it slow (dynamic typing).

It’s time to move onto newer technologies.

Disclaimer: I don’t mean to hurt anyone , I have just conveyed my views here.

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Check the IPL7 answers.

The IPL 7.0 was organised as an event in Ankura’ 17. Most of the teams were able to do one or the other problem. We wanted to share with everyone the solution to all the problems of the Prelims and the Finals. So get the Solutions now and learn all the concepts!

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Antimatter analyzed for the first time at CERN

Author : Chawat

A major breakthrough in Physics has been made at CERN’s Anti hydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) Lab , where Physicists studied Antimatter for the first time.

In the process , Scientists placed Anti-protons and Positrons together forming Anti hydrogen atom. These particles were held in a Vacuum contained by a strong Magnetic field.

In particular, Scientists were able to hit the Anti hydrogen atoms with a laser to observe the light they gave off as positrons in the atoms returned to lower energy levels. The researchers concluded that under the same test conditions, the Anti hydrogen atoms gave off the exact same light spectrum as regular hydrogen atoms.

Thus confirming the Standard Model of Particle Physics

The main challenge here was to maintain the Antimatter particles for enough time because as soon as the Antimatter particles interact with Matter , they annihilate into smaller particles and radiation.

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Solar City – Why solar roofs are cool

Author : Mridul Ganga

So, Elon Musk came up with another awesome idea to save the world, going Solar. When we talk about sustainable development, the first thing that comes to mind is solar energy. Its the best way to not pollute the environment and still make energy. Until today the solar cells were not good enough, in the sense that they couldn’t generate enough energy and they were expensive. Apart from that they used to be quite delicate and required some maintenance work too. But now the times have changed, thanks to the recent researches and Elon Musk.

So what is solar City?

Its a company which intends to replace conventional roofs with better solar ones. They intent to make energy from your roof and help you light your house without getting any energy from the grid

How much will it cost?

Solar Energy these days cost less than traditional Sources, the solar city guys have different forms in which they charge.

Will it look good?

Fabulous, that’s what the solar city guys say. They have made the panels elegant, it can even be added on top of existing roofs without any issues.

The solar panels are made quite durable and beat the conventional roofs in impact protection. The solar panels look better, is stronger, safer and makes energy to power your house.

Conventional sources use coal which causes lots of pollution, running water which cant be harvested everywhere and would finish up, nuclear substances which creates nuclear waste which has to be disposed properly. And about the solar energy – it requires one thing – the sun, it produces no waste and is getting cheaper. So its time now to go solar.

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Hello Bloggers!

Original post by : Rajasimha Reddy

It’s a great pleasure to introduce you to the latest feature of the NISB website. We aren’t calling it anything yet. But, let’s call it, temporarily, “Blog with NISB”. Sounds good? Let’s move then!

I’ll brief you through the registering process. You can register yourself. At the moment, we are only accepting NISB members. You have to have:

An email

A username (You can make it interesting, but no AngelPriya)

An IEEE number (You can get it from your IEEE account at www.ieee.org)

Once you register, you’ll receive an email. You can confirm your account. Our admins at the website will, then, validate your registration. You can set your password, then. It may take two or so days (our sincere apology!). Once your account is validated, you’ll be provided author rights. However, you can contribute the moment you’ve signed up.

“But, I still wonder why I need to blog. Isn’t my life already occupied enough with college and stuffs?”

We understand. Well, there are certain benifits of blogging. I won’t go for the obvious ones that includes, personal development, sharing of knowledge and learning experience in a really rainbow way.

If you’re an introvert, you know how hard it is to express things in speech. Guess what? You don’t have to. Just jot them down into words and update it. And, bam! You shared whatever you wanted to. The worlds recognizes you.

Author skills are a key to technical writing. This is you playground. Stop reading and sign up. Start blogging! Now!

We are also planning for various in-NISB benifits of blogging. Hush! Hush! That’s a surprise.

“Okay! I will. Let me sign up!”

“Two days to wait. What should I do?”

Start contributing. Share, rate and help others with their blogs. You can do everything a contributor can.

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