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Mostly technical stuff with some interesting moments of life

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Innovative Tools

Did you ever think about automatic level tools. Hmm, Black and Decker has thought about it and has given this wonderful laser level, Bulls Eye. The demo is really cool. I also like their Handisaw. I've used several Black and Decker products (can opener, vacuum cleaner, iron and toaster) and all of them were of great quality. Hmm I wish I could buy one of those Handisaws from Sri Lanka :)

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CSE Formula

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering organizes a toy car race each year for the new comers. The first year entrants to the department are grouped and given the task of creating a remote controlled (not RF controlled actually, hmm I wonder why it is ?) toy vehicle which is to be powered by a 12V DC power source. Eventual grading (not GPA) includes a test run of each vehicle on a track made with few obstacles.

This event is really cool. Bad thing I miss this chance since this event with the batch junior to us. Anyway I'm really interested in such events because I personally believe that students should have some skills to build things rather to design them in papers. Yet it is little bit pathetic to see the construction of vehicles of some groups. One student has tried to give the power of the motor directly to the wheel. I wonder why such situations arise because even they know that it is not the case in any toy. They need to use gear wheels. I hope things would get corrected with time as students begin to like the event.

Good work CSE :)

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Ency

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I have developed a little tool to embed text messages inside image files using Java called Ency. I'm really interested in this steganography and security stuff. Ency is in its primary stage. It needs more modifications to step into maturity. I found this nice link explaining about steganography while trying to improve Ency. Enjoy hidden messaging with Java ;-)

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