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Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers Students’ Forum presents...
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August 2013
THEME:
YOUNG ACHIEVE RS IN A GIST
CHARGE YOUR PHONE IN UNDER 30 SECONDS
In what could be called as a breakthrough in
the field of co mmunicatio n, EESHA
KHARE, who is only 18 year old, created a
device which could charge your mobile phone
in under 30 seconds. Read more to find all
about her revolutionary invention.Continued on page 3.
15 YEAR OLD BOY INVENTS TEST FOR
PANCREATIC CANCER
At 15, JACK ANDRAKA beat out billion
dollar pharmaceutical companies with his
diagnostic cancer test. Keep reading to know
how and why he created a system to detect
pancreatic cancer.
Continued on page 4.
WIRELESS
TECHNOLOGIES: NFC AND RFID
Increase your tech quotient and read about
how mobile payment is made and shop lifting
is prevented with the help of these two
amazing wireless technologies.
Continued on page 5.
Issue No. 2 IETE -ISFR E A C H I N G O U T
RoboTryst 2013
Industrial Visit to Brakes India Ltd. Riviera 2013 event- Jigmix
OPEN SOURCE VS. CLOSED SOURCE
Open source systems vs. closed source systems
have been subjected to numerous debates. We
compare the pros and cons.
Continued on page 6.
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FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK...Greetings and a warm welcome to the second issue of The Tabellio!
Our team is delighted to present to you another issue of The Tabellio wherein we aim to provide you with knowledge about
the latest technology, information on the latest conferences, competitions and much more.
Since childhood we have heard terms such as “Jack of all trades and master of none” and have been told to focus only on one
thing and pursue it with full dedication and determination. However, many of us actually take the literal meaning of this
phrase and end up focusing only on one particular aspect ignoring the rest without realizing the possible influence one topic
may have over another .
Thomas Henry Huxley, also known as “Darwin’s bulldog” who is famously known for coining the term “agnostic” said,“Try tolearn something of everything and everything of something”. This gives a deeper insight on how one should actually proceed
on the path of knowledge. Having basic knowledge about as many topics as possible will only have a positive influence on your
dedicated path to progress. It is important to focus on your goal whole heartedly but negligence towards other aspects may
prove costly in the long run. To summarize, with perseverance, hard work and dedication one can strive to become “The jack
of all trades as well as the Master of his trade”.
IETE-ISF brings to you the second edition of the news letter and this time it is designed based on the theme “Young
Achievers”. It is always fascinating to see any new invention coming up, but what can be even more astonishing is the fact that
many of these inventions are by teenagers! While these people are not child prodigies as such, they are quite unique and
different from others as they strived hard for making their dream come true at such a young age. We cover two such stories in
this issue- 18 year old Eesha Khare’s invention of a charger that charges a cell phone in less than 30 seconds and 15 year old
Jack Andraka’s diagnostic stick for pancreatic cancer. We also have an article on the current wireless technologies- RFID and
NFC, which are not only used widely nowadays but are extremely easy to understand too. Apart from that, we also cover the
very famous debate of “Open Source vs. Closed Source”.
While the first issue was based on ‘Fun with technology’, we have tried to experiment with this issue and we bring to you
heartwarming stories of young achievers of today, their inventions and what lead them into doing so.
I am sanguine that this edition will be beneficial to the readers and would like to thank my team for putting in diligent efforts to
compile this newsletter.
Also, we appreciate your support and are more than happy to have your views and opinions about us. You can contact us on
the email id mentioned below:
ietevit2012@gmail.com
With best regards,
Varun Chawla
Student Head.
IETE ISF, VIT Branch
We would love to hear back from you....
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CHARGE YOUR PHONE IN
UNDER 30 SECONDS
Every time your phone’s battery dies down,
do you also wish that there were some kind of
magic device which could charge it again in a
few seconds making your life a lot easier?
Well, brace yourselves for the groundbreaking
invention which can potentially change the
face of communication in the world andcharge your cell phone in 20 to 30 seconds.
EESHA KHARE, an 18-year-old student at
Lynbrook High School in California has
invented a super-fast charging device which
she has dubbed as a ‘super capacitor’. This
Californian resident won the Intel Foundation
Young Scientist Award with $50,000 prize
money at the Intel International Science and
Engineering Fair, conducted in Phoenix, Ariz.
After receiving the award, Khare said she
wants to "just keep making a lot of scientific
advancements." Eesha explained to Intel that
this super capacitor acts as an energy storage
device that holds great amount energy in a
small amount of space. Not only is the device
convenient because it's speedy, this device is
also portable because of its small size. Eesha
says it can fit inside cell phones and other
electronic devices, which can mean that
people will not need to rely on electric outlets
as often.The nano-tech gizmo which Eesha
has created can supposedly withstand up to
100,000 charge cycles, a 100-fold increaseover the current technology.
That was “--with hydrogemated TiO2 (H-
TiO2) core and polyaniline shell.” This core
is electrostatic in nature and “--conductivity
combined with the high pseudo capacitance
of polyaniline results in significantly higher
overall capacitance” After continuous re
evaluation of the structural capacities, Eesha
Khare made a home run and successfullylighted an LED within seconds.
Imagine this: if her technology replaces our
conventional charger, our gadgets will spend
lesser time ."My cellphone battery always
dies," she said when asked about what
inspired her to work on the energy-storage
technology.
After winning the Intel Foundation Young
Scientist Award, Eesha plans to put her
$50,000 into her educational forte at Harvard
and further scientific advancements.There will
be no more wires plugged into the sockets andthere will be no more complaints about how
slow our devices take to juice up. And yes, that
day is not very far away because tech giant
Google has already started head hunting this
teenager who has taken the tech-world by a
storm.So folks, we are at the brink of another
outstanding and significant phase in the world
we live. We are now entering a world, courtesy
Eesha Khare, a teenager; where it will take
less than a minute to charge our cell phones
completely and you will have to find excuses
other than a dead battery for being late.
Battery offers
30 times more
power and
charges 1000
times faster.
Eesha stood 3rd at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, conducted in Phoenix.
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15 year old boy invents test for PancreaticCancerDIAGNOSIS A MATTER OF JUST 5 MINUTES.
Jack is already working on a patent for his revolutionary life saving test.
At 15, most of us worry about our homework, a match of football or a party we are supposed to attend. Well this was not what
Jack Andraka had in his mind when he started his research in 2011.Pancreatic cancer is a lethal cancer, with five year survival rate
of 6% only. In most cases, the diagnosis is very late for treatment. Around 40,000 people die of this disease every year. “By the
time you bring this to a physician, it’s too late,” said Anirban Maitra, a Johns Hopkins university’s pathologist and pancreatic
cancer researcher who is also Andraka’s mentor.
As the cancer takes hold of the body, the body sends out a distress signal – an overabundance of a protein called ‘Mesothelin’. Jack invented a dipstick which can detect the protein in blood or urine. This test is 90% accurate. Thus this makes the diagnosis a
matter of 5 minutes.Jack who hails from Maryland, USA was born in 1997. One of his close family friends died of pancreatic
cancer in 2011.What led him into the journey of this discovery accounts for an interesting story. When one fine day Jack was
sitting in his biology class, listening to a lecture of antibodies which bind to a particular protein in body, the idea struck him. He
had been using carbon nanotubes for screening some compounds from water along with his father, who is a civil engineer. In the
class he thought of combining both these ideas. What if he could lace a nanotube network with mesothelin-specific antibodies,
and then introduce a drop of a pancreatic cancer patient’s blood? The antibodies would bind to the mesothelin and enlarge.
These beefed-up molecules would spread the nanotubes farther apart, changing the electrical properties of the network: The
more mesothelin was to be present, the more antibodies would bind and grow big, and the weaker the electrical signal would
become. This could be used to test for pancreatic cancer at an earlier stage, thus saving thousands of lives.Jack wrote an
experimental protocol and e-mailed it to about 200 researchers. Only Maitra responded and decided to invite him in his lab.
What he expected was that he would see Jack around once a week but instead, young Jack worked religiously for seven months,every day after school and often on Saturdays until after midnight.He had not even finished his freshman Biology, so had lots to
learn.It was actually this way he ended up making the strips quite cheap and effective.His dedication and hard work finally paid
off when at 15, Jack Andraka won the 2012 Gordon E. Moore Award, the grand prize of the Intel International Science and
Engineering Fair along with prize money of $75000. Andraka also won other prizes in smaller individual categories for a total of
$100,500 in prize money. Another addition to his achievements is a fourth place award in Chemistry at the 2013 Intel
International Science and Engineering Fair with a project focusing on a novel Raman spectrometer with real world applications.
Although his invention requires some improvisation, achieving this feat at such an early age might be enough of work for a
lifetime for a teenager but this is not stopping Jack at all! Maitra rightly calls him “Edison of our times”.
Jack speaks after receiving Smithsonian Magazine first annual American Ingenuity Award for youth
achievement on November 28,2012 in Washington, DC.
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WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES
The term NFC is gaining popularity
increasingly nowadays as it becomes a part
of more smartphones, laptops and other
devices. RFID, on the other hand is a
technology which is already commonly used
around the world. What is the difference
between the two? What are the uses of these technologies? Let’s find out.
NFC (Near Field Communication) and
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) are
often used interchangeably, but NFC is a
newer version of RFID. Both make use of
the radio signals for various sorts of
tracking and tagging purposes.
RFID is a technology where there is only
one-way communication and the signals
flow from tags to the reading equipment. Its
tags contain an antennae and a memory
chip that is responsible for the storage of
data. An impressive use of this technology is
for the prevention of shoplifting in retail
stores where the tags embedded in items
prevent people from carrying them outside
without first paying for it. RFID has a range
of many feet.
NFC technology on the other hand can be
set up for one as well as two-way
communications and it limits the operating
range to about 4 inches (10 cms). This
actually makes NFC great for secure
transfer of data such as mobile payment
and logging in at a location. One of the
reasons it is being included in the various
modern smartphones like the HTC,
Samsung and Google Nexus phones is that
it can be used for transferring data likephotos, music and other files. Another
important usage, as previously mentioned is
mobile payment. NFC is supposed to make
mobile phones replace money (cash and
credit cards) to pay for things and redeem
coupons. One of the examples is Google
Wallet, partnering with MasterCard
PayPass. Some cities like San Francisco are
using it for payments of parking meter and
BMW has even come up with NFC-enabled
car keys.
RFID is already being commonly used
throughout the world and NFC is a
technology of the future, with great
potential to help us make our lives easier. It
is great to be aware of the amazing
technology around us, especially if it
directly relevant to how we live our lives.
"An impressiveuse of thistechnology is forthe prevention ofshoplifting in
retail storeswhere the tagsembedded initems preventpeople fromcarrying them outside withoutfirst paying for it."
Telecom Italy, Vodafone, Wind, 3 Italy Poste Mobile have signed a joint ag reement for the development of NFC Technology in Italy.
RFID Key tags are easy to use
wherever required. It uses Radio Frequency Identification Technique.
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The biggest question while choosing software
can easily be brought down to: free or not free.
While the two have a long and winding
relationship dating back to over twenty years,
each set has its own advantages and
disadvantages. A good place to start is to define
what they exactly are and how they differ.
What are Open and Closed Sourcesystems?
A fitting example for this comparison can be
made between Android and iOS, the top 2
operating systems in the mobile market
currently. Google’s Android is considered an
OPEN SOURCE mobile OS, which means that
they release the source code for the mobile OS.
(Source code is the code in English before it is
compiled into 1’s and 0’s). Open source software
is any piece of software where a normal end
user is granted a full view into the source codeand has the option to modify this code for his or
her own purpose. On the other hand, Apple’s
iOS does the opposite and is considered a
CLOSED SOURCE system that doesn’t allow
developers to change anything that deals with
the operating system itself, and instead gives
developers an API which is set of tools that lets
them develop programs for the iPhone, but
restricts what they have access to.
What are Open and Closed Sources?
Unfortunately the decision is not clear cut andcomes down to what you, the end user needs.
One can only compare the benefits and the
downsides of both the systems and draw a
conclusion based on the requirements.An Open
model gives the developers a feeling of
ownership as the user can develop for the
platform. It also allows full control and lets the
user customize the look, feel and even features of
the software giving it much more possibilities
which is essentially absent in a Closed system.
Open source is also much more transparent than
closed, this means that anyone can look over the
code, by having thousands of people reading
through your code, bugs and vulnerabilities are
located much quicker and submitted for fixing, it
also lets you know if the bug has been fixed as
you can check the code after each release. As a
product ages the original developer might move
on and stop developing leaving the product to
age with no new fixes or features, but if it is an
Open source then usually the community takesover and continues working on it allowing the
usable life of the product to be
extended well beyond what the original
developer intended.The Closed model
on the other hand is much simpler and
less complicated then the Open one.
There is less confusion for the customer
where you don't have to choose among
d oz e n s o f op t i o ns f o r e ve ry
component. You only have to explore
two or three large vendors in each
market , which saves a lot of
time. Many people aren’t sure what the
advantages of the different versions of Android.
By not allowing people to alter core features it
makes it easier to pick the product you want,
there is only one version of iOS that people
need to learn about. With Open source, you
have to comply with the license terms specified
by the components you're using. It can take
some time to understand the terms of an
Apache Software License versus a General
Public License (GPL), for example. But with
Closed source, you don't have to worry about
any of this! Your vendor's license agreement
takes away all of your rights to the software and
makes it nearly impossible to consider any usage
not explicitly approved by your corporate
attorneys, so you don't even have to think about
it. Using a Closed source can prove to be
extremely beneficial at the time of breakdown.
Once you determine that the problem lies in
your vendor's code, you're all done! All you have
to do is file a ticket and wait.
OPEN SOURCE VS.CLOSED SOURCE
Open Source vs. Closed Source
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UPCOMING MUN’s
1.Shri Ram Model UnitedNations Conference
When: 23-25 August, 2013
Where: New Delhi
Contact: Vaibhav Garg
(Secretary General)
Phone: +918860390193
Email: srccmun@gmail.com
2. CBIT MUN-2013
When: 05-08 September, 2013
Where: Hyderabad
Phone: +919493813960
Facebook: www.facebook.com/
cbit2011
Email:
cbitmun2013@gmail.com
Website: www.cbitmun.com
3.VIT Model United Nations
When: 20-22 September, 2013
Where: Vellore
Contact: +91-9566820095
Facebook: www.facebook.com/
vitmun
Email: vitmun2013@gmail.com
4. UWC Conference India
When:11-13 October, 2013
Where: Pune
Email: uwcci@muwci.net
Facebook Page:
www.facebook.com/
UWCConferenceIndia
Website: www.uwcci.com
UPCOMING CONTESTS:
1. Arduino Contest
About: The object of the
Contest is to create an
Instructables project using
an ARduino-compatible
product that meets the given
criteria and are submitted in
accordance with the format,
c o n t e n t a n d o t h e r
requirements.
W e b s i t e : h t t p : / /
www.instructables.com/
contest/arduino2013/
Deadline: 1st September,
2013
2. Wipro: Applife Contest
2013
About: A contest by Wipro
for Engineering students to
showcase their talents in
d e v e l o p i n g m o b i l e
applications for consumers
and enterprises.
W e b s i t e : w w w . w i p r o -
campusarena.com
Deadline: 20th December,
2013.
UPCOMING MUN’s AND
CONTESTS...
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UPCOMING FESTS&
CONFERENCES
1. AARUSH 13
Type: Technical Fest
Date: 18th September, 2013
College: SRM University,
Chennai
Department: CSE, ECE, IT,
EEE, Ins trumentat ion ,
M e c h a n i c a l , C i v i l ,
Chemical, Energy, Arts,
Industrial, BioTechnology,
MBA, MCA.
2. GRAVITAS 2013
Type: Technical Fest
Date: 27th-29th September,
2013
College: VIT University,
Vellore.
Departments:CSE, ECE, IT,
EEE, Ins trumentat ion ,
M e c h a n i c a l , C i v i l ,
Chemical, Energy, Arts,
Industrial, BioTechnology,
MBA, MCA.
Paper Presentation: Call forAbstracts. Last Date of submission:
20th August, 2013.
Topics uploaded on:www.facebook.com/gravitas13
Submit proposals to:
paperpresentation.gravitas13@gmail.com
VIT NEWS
1. VIT STUDENTS
DESIGN OXYGEN
MASKS WITH MIKES F o u r u n d e r g r a d u a t e
students, Rajat, Akshat,
Krishna and Karthik fromVIT University, Vellore have
developed a model oxygen
mask with mike attached
equipment to be used for
communication of a patient
undergoing oxygen therapy. The students came up with
this invention under the
subject Innovation for
Devlopement, mentored by
Dr. Ted Moallem and Dr.
Data Santorino.
This group of four students
c a l l e d a s t h e
CapnoDiaCoroxy, presented
this oxygen mask at the
Innovators Conclave for
Medical Technologies also
known as Hack-a-thon, held
at VIT.
T h i s m a s k a l s o h a s
applications in adventure
sports like trekking on hills
and mountains where the
oxygen at the altitude level is
l o w. T h i s m a s k w i l l
improve the level of medical
services when exploited at acommercial level. The group won the first
prize at the hack-a-thon and
was awarded with a cash
prize of 25,000 Rs. from the
C h a n c e l l o r o f V I T
U n i v e r s i t y , D r . G .
Viswanathan and officials
from CAMTech and MIT,
Boston, USA.
2.VIT STUDENTS’
VOICE-ENABLED
WHEELCHAIR GETS
THEM FIRST PRIZE.
Two third year B. Tech
(Electrical and Electronics
Engineering) students of VIT
University, Jagan Mohan and
K. Dinesh Kumar have bagged
the first prize in the CoreEl-
Digi lent Design Contest(CDDC) for designing an
innovative Smart Wheelchair
for use by physically disabled
persons.The Smart Wheelchair
can be operated and controlled
by the disabled persons
through voice command. One
can give simple instructions
such as ‘forward,’ ‘backward,’
‘left’ and ‘right’ to control the
movement of the wheelchair.
UPCOMING FESTS /CONFERENCESAND VIT NEWS...
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At IETE-ISF, we aim to come up with creative
and innovative events and workshops to
encourage outside-the-classroom learning. In
VIT itself, IETE-ISF has been one of the
most active student chapters, thereby
conducting events, workshops and industrial
visits that have been not only a knowledgeable
experience for the students, but also a funfilled one.
In Riviera 2013, VIT’s cultural fest, we
conducted 2 major events – Legends of the
Hidden Temple, based on a hugely popular
television show with the same name and Jig
mix, an online jigsaw puzzle game on
Facebook. Along with that we had Craft
Bizarre, a pre Riviera workshop on paper
quilling and paper lamp making.
‘Robotryst 2013’, a national level workshopcum championship was organized in January
2013 in association with Robosapiens
Technologies, a start-up by IIT Bombay
alumni.
We also conducted an Industrial visit to Brakes
India Ltd, Chennai, a leading manufacturer of
Automotive and Non-Automotive Braking
Systems and Ferrous Castings.
An informative on-campus visit was organised
to the CO2 research centre where the studentsgot on opportunity to have a look at the
various ongoing projects at the centre.
Electrologic, a technical event which tested the
debugging skills of the participants was
conducted in April, 2013.
An innovative workshop on Photoshop and
Photography was also conducted in April.
The students were taught the various
techniques of photography and also the basic
tools of Photoshop.
When you're
young, everything
feels like the end of
the world. But it's
not. It's just the
beginning.
IETE-ISF hopes to keep the subscribers in
sync with the technological advancements
v i a w e e k l y m e s s a g e s i s “ I E T E
TECHGYAN”. The best part about this
service is that it is free of cost and the
subscribers do not have to search anywhere
for these tech-tips, they simply receive one
tech-tip a week on their mobile phones.
Electrologic
IETE TechGyan.
Visit to CO2 centre
RoboTryst 2013
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