Bengaluru,
April 12, 2017: Texas
Instruments (TI) India, today, hosted the “DIY with TI” event designed to
recognize and encourage TI hobbyists who innovate in their spare time using TI
devices, and showcase their creativity with innovations that help solve
real-life problems. More than 40 engineers got together in teams at TI in India
and showcased their passion for creating simple and innovative solutions by
showcasing 15 interesting demos across home automation, agriculture, education,
personal electronics, renewable energy, healthcare, etc.
This year,
S KeerthiBala, Priyankar Mathuria, Ankur Patel, Aarti Malgaonkar won the Chief
Geek award for their DIY project ‘Non-invasive
Blood Sugar Prediction’. The winners were chosen based on the potential of
this application for creating future smart cities. Also, Abhijit Ray, Tarunvir
Singh, Gaurang Kuchchal were recognized as runners-up for their project on ‘FINDO-track
your valuables’. There were other notable projects in the realm of making
solar energy harvesting with a smart tracking system, cloud based tracker to
measure electrical power consumption in home, a pen that can remember what you
scribbled- no paper required.
“We are proud to continue to host the ‘DIY with
TI’ in India to encourage TI hobbyists, develop and demonstrate their
innovations by collaborating & sharing ideas with other DIY-ers. These
innovations are created in their own time. The worldwide program, works as a
catalyst to enhance their problem solving skills in the most engaging manner.
This helps us to recognize the talented engineers across all TI offices
globally,” said Santhosh Kumar, President and
Managing Director at Texas Instruments India.
‘DIY with
TI’ is a global event held within TI in its U.S., Germany, China and India
offices. The event aims to nurture a culture of innovation in TI by providing a
platform to TIers that helps them explore alternate and newer ways to solve a
problem by doing what they love.
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