Akash Ravichandran
I am a 3rd-year Electronics and Communication Engineering student at College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University. I am a smart learner who loves making projects with development boards. My main interests are Robotics and IoT. I’m an ardent IEEE enthusiast. I live by the motto ‘Miles to go before I sleep’ and 'Stay Hungry Stay Foolish'.
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+91-96772 28515
Chennai, Tamilnadu
Skills
Programming
- C
- C++
- C#
- Python
- Arduino
- Java
- JavaScript
Devices
- FRDM K82F - NXP Development Board
- Intel Edison Board
- Mediatek LinkitOne
- Arduino
- Cypress CY8CKIT-048 Analog Coprocessor
- Raspberry Pi
- Particle Photon
- Mindwave Mobile
Management
- Creativity
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Decision Making
- Time Management
- Self-motivation
- Public Speaking
Softwares
- LTSpice
- Matlab
- LabView
- Photoshop
- PyCharm IDE
- Processing
- Arduino
- Android Studio
- Amazon AWS
Extra-Curricular
- Table tennis
- Volleyball
- Scouts and Guides
- Robotics
- NSS
Domain Knowledge
- Microprocessor and Microcontrollers
- Signals and Systems
- Digital Signal Processing
- Digital VLSI
- Electron Devices
- Digital Electronics
- Communication Theory
- Electronic Circuits
- Control Systems
Experience
Chairman at IEEE Anna University SB, July 2017 - Present
Our Student Branch Chapter's main aim is to create an awareness among students to publish research papers and participate in various IEEE International conferences and competitions.
Secretary at Robotics Club of CEG, March 2017 - Present
With an untiring motive of pervading the knowledge of Robotics among the students, the robotics club conducts various workshops and courses throughout the year.
Volunteer Experience
Organiser at GCR Workshop November 2016
Li2 Innovations conducted a gesture controlled robotics workshop for the 11th edition of Kurukshetra, at CEG on 17-18 Feb 2017. I was involved in bringing in sponsors, logistics, marketing and worked as an overall co-ordinator to make the workshop successful.
Organiser at Startup Weekend February 2016
This is the StartUp Weekend - Kurukshetra Edition which took place in College of Engineering Guindy.The key idea of conducting Startup Weekend is to enlighten the budding Start-ups to its full potential.
Campus Ambassador at IEEEXtreme April 2016
IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of student members compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems. We host seminars and drive about IEEEXtreme programming competition in University and create awareness about the competition.
Projects
Airlock
The Airlock is an elegant locking system which uses pattern lock concept. It is to provide security to houses and it will be extended in the future for Banks and other places.
AirArt
Real-time image processing of what we draw in front of the camera and reflect the same by means of a 2d arm(using inverse kinematics concept) on the paper.
Play TicTacToe
Using NXP FRDM K82f development board, did a small module to play tic tac toe as a single and two player game. Learnt embedded C of NXP in due course of doing the project.
An Alexa Skill to say a few words about the Despicable Me characters. This contains a list of all characters from Despicable Me movies.
A biped controlled by using blynk app which enables all servos to be controlled in a respective manner which enables the biped to walk smoothly.
Linkit 7688 has only 32MB flash, to handle more data insert an SD card in Linkit 7688 to expand the memory and use it to store data.