Posts Tagged ‘circuitrix’

>> Tasty Circuits…

// January 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Pragyan, random cool


This amazingly creative and yummy electronic circuit is made by the guys over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. The “Circuitry Snack” is made entirely out of candies and snacks. Here’s what they got to say:

Two of our favorite things in the world are playing with electronics and playing with food, and so it is about time that someone finally got around to combining the two. We begin by gathering up appropriate snack-food building blocks and making food-based models of electronic components. From these components, you can assemble “circuitry snacks”– edible models of functioning electronic circuits. You can make these for fun, for dessert, for your geek friends, for kids, and for teaching and learning electronics.

Food aside, circuits apart (no pun intended), Circuitrix – the highly popular circuit design competition at Pragyan has completed the first phase of online prelims. No worries for those who missed it – you can still catch the second phase between 30-31 January.

Register now and get a taste of those breadboards. *grin*

>> World’s fastest Graphene Transistor

// December 22nd, 2008 // No Comments » // random cool

This Just In:

Plenty of researchers and companies are betting on graphene as being the big thing that will revolutionize transistors and, hence, all manner of electronics, and it looks like IBM is now claiming one of the biggest breakthroughs to date, not to mention the desirable title of “world’s fastest graphene transistor.” More specifically, IBM researchers have apparently been the first to demonstrate the operation of graphene field-effect transistors at gigahertz frequencies and, apparently even more importantly, they’ve also established the scaling behavior of the graphene transistors, which they say could eventually lead to the development of terahertz graphene transistors — or, in other word’s, keep Moore’s Law around for quite a bit longer than many expected. Circuitrix @ Pragyan ’09 anyone? :)

For those of you who are not aware of Graphene, its is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. It can be viewed as an atomic-scale chicken wire made of carbon atoms and their bonds.

>> Slice ‘em up!

// December 21st, 2008 // No Comments » // random cool

At Pragyan, we like opening things, and figuring out how they work. Are you into dismantling circuits, fiddling around with wires and electronic components? Circuitrix gives you an opportunity to compete doing just that.

For those who are not electrically inclined, fear not. You can still break apart an put together things in Dexter’s Lab – however, we’re not telling you more about this event; that’s for you to come here to NIT Trichy and figure out!

Of course Nikon had something else in mind when they designed their uber cool SLR below… mmm! There’s tons of fun and surprises you can look forward to in Pragyan ’09 – Presenting the Future!