Tenet Technetronics recently conducted a 2 day workshop at VIT covering a wide spectrum of topics such as fundamental electronics, embedded systems development, Model based system design and introduction to Augmented Reality concepts.
Thanks to Dr.M.Jothiah Kumar (Assistant Professor SG2, IIC – President) and Dr.C.Ramesh Kumar (Professor, Director of VIT-IST) inviting us and carefully guiding and curating these sessions.
The session started off with introduction to basic electronics both active and passive components, their characteristics mainly to prep the students towards the topics further and it was very well received.
Moving on a quick introduction to Arduino platforms were made given this was more familiar with the students and while doing so architectures of microcontrollers how they have to be studied and what to consider to choose a microcontrollers, peripherals and their features and strategies to choose them rightly were illustrated.
While programming Arduino’s provided the students a good path we also moved onto to introduce model based approached for firmware development . We used Twin Simulate a Digital Twin Development platform from Vista 1 Labs . Students found it extremely easy to use this platform and realized they can easily generate a full working code from these models with a block diagram approach and easily created the examples in 1 hour for all the sessions that they had to go through with hand code for most part of the 1st day. This was also planned such that they realize how easy one can leverage tools like these to accelerate the development time. But of course the day 1 session did offer them a way to first understand the programming APIs, challenges before they saw a quick way to do it.
Tenet Technetronics is one of the distributors for Twin Simulate in India and please feel free to send us any questions or enquiries regarding the same.
As a wrap an introduction to Augmented reality was made with demos on creating AR markers, leverage marker detectors implemented again in convenient blocks in Twin Simulate and image processing block set to quickly run a real time camera based diagram with AR markers being detected in real time and provide ways to overlay 3D objects and text on them.
Overall the workshop seems to have served the purpose to accelerate , ramp up the students and I am sure they will now wear their maker hat more often and feel confident to build up projects on their own.
For workshops like these to be organized at your esteemed instututions please feel free to reach out to us at info@tenettech.com
