Written when it happened.

We spent months building a snake robot to crawl through pipes humans can’t safely enter. Early in simulation it did exactly one thing: rolled onto its side and stopped.

Completed my URSC/ISRO internship — “Autonomous Robot Navigation in a Factory Environment Using Comparative Pathfinding Algorithms” — a Python/Pygame simulator comparing A*, BFS and Dijkstra with dynamic obstacles and multi-robot navigation.

A differential-drive pick-and-place robot in ROS 2 and Gazebo — climb a ramp, grab fruit at the top, throw it back down. Seven interns, two teams, one steep URDF/Gazebo learning curve.

Two weeks at Evolve Robotics in Embedded C — Arduino UNO and the PIC16F877A, simulated and debugged in MPLAB before touching hardware.

Empowering Young Innovators: hands-on Arduino & Tinkercad workshop for Sree Narayana Public School — LED circuits, an ultrasonic radar, alarm systems, moisture sensors, and a robotic-car demo for 8th & 9th graders.