Almost two years ago, in February 2023, I embarked on a journey without knowing how deep the water was. At first, it just looked like a small pond, so I jumped in. Two and a half years later, I am still rowing, and I don’t know how long this voyage will last. This story is about one of my most significant projects. I am moving with a gardener mindset rather than an architect mindset. I have in my mind where I wanna finish, but I don’t know how to get there. I am learning and planting as I go. We live in a world where Self-Driving Cars are available in the commercial market. Yet, I am dedicating all my energy and resources to a Line Follower Bot. At its core, every Self-Driving Car or Autonomous Vehicle is just a simple line follower, but the line they follow is not so simple. Autonomous Vehicles plan their own trajectory, and while traversing, their main goal is to minimise the deviation from that trajectory. For Line Follower Competitions, the trajectory is laid out on an arena. A wh...
Currently, I am working as a freelancer on Upwork. I have had a few gigs. I have 3+ years of experience in developing IoT systems. My tech stack includes C++, C, Esp32, Arduino, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MATLAB, and Python. I also know Circuit Designing & Testing, Hardware Architecture, Mechatronics, Networking, Competitive Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. When I look back, I often wonder how it all began. Very few people know this story. My 13th birthday was about to arrive; it was in 2015. I always remember those October evenings when I wondered what present I should demand this time. What could a 13-year-old boy want? We recently brought a TV. So all I wanted was a PlayStation. Fitting our budget, we decided to get PlayStation 2 in 2015, unknown to the world of GameTech. My mother and I went out hunting for a PS2. We went to one showroom after another, one dealer after another, and all I found was disappointment. Apparently, PlayStation 2 were old tec...