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By Akhila Seetharaman
CHENNAI, FEB. 28. You make your move, register it on the electrically circuited chessboard and wait. It is slow, but when the crane-like contraption of rulers, set squares, and printer motors move in for the kill, lifting your black pawn off the board, you take a second look. The chess computer is one of sixty projects on display at Anna University's `Exhivision 2005' that kicked off today. Part of a six-day programme called `Vision 2005,' featuring competitions and symposiums on electronics and communication, the exhibition showcased projects by students from engineering colleges across the State. From stimulating exercises in robotics to the application of digital electronics for improving the quality of life, students demonstrated that they could put their ideas into practice. "We wanted to do something keeping in mind the human perspective," said Shobana S. from Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai. Along with her teammates, she designed an automated synchronous traffic routing network using intelligent sensors. "At present, the duration of traffic signals indicated by countdowns are preset based on static data," explained her teammate Kaushik V. "Our system recommends the use of equidistant sensors at each traffic signal. The sensors relay information about the flow of traffic and determine the duration of traffic signals," he said. Students of Sri Krishna College of Engineering in Coimbatore demonstrated a novel application of electronics in agriculture. Seeds could be tested for quality by immersing them in distilled water and measuring the electrical conductivity of the water, they said. Nutrients in the water increase its conductivity. "Good seeds have tough membranes that do not let the nutrients out easily," said K. Madhu. The higher the conductivity, the lower the vigour of the seed and its chances of germinating. Not to be left behind, students from host Guindy Engineering College, Kiran, Krishna and Collins, played popular Tamil songs on a low-cost CD player, which uses electronic circuitry (hardware) instead of a programme (software) to read CDs. "The idea is to encourage students to apply what they have learnt in class," said Amarnath S. and Andronicus S.R., final year students of electronics and communications engineering. Although `Vision' has been an annual feature of Guindy Engineering College, this is the first `Exhivision'. Short workshops on medical electronics, wireless communications and embedded systems will run parallel to the display from tomorrow.
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