Mediocrity trolled!!

Finally, you are at the end of the most awaited, hilarious, productive and ridiculed sphere of life, Engineering. Being in final year means a lot to every engineer, and personally speaking, it makes my every single day in college, to live much better, to count every detail I can in my last semester. May it be travelling in buses, meeting faculties, having quality discussions, or simply hanging out with friends, taking endless selfies, trolling them, over editing pics, and tagging hell out of every friend in single photo,knowing none of this things will re appear. Everything will fall apart to the places they were meant to be, being perfect drones, earning money in some MNCs or other places.

It’s also a time that blurs the line between an engineer and an engineering graduate, via Mega Projects. To be franked, we were ridiculed and questioned for the choice of 3D Printers as our mega project. 3D printers, well, what’s that? In simpler words, it canbe described as a machine that simply creates an object out of your imagination. Think of a glass & glass is created on your desk, think of any other structure, it will appear on your desk, and so on. It was pretty scary at that time on completion of our project in stipulated time and also on potential of my team to sustain such unrealistic project. It was quite obvious, that our idea of 3D Printer didn’t appear feasible and probably be kick out! And yes, even we, at that time, weren’t sure about the success of this project.

But it’s your intuitions that somehow know what you will actually do and where your hidden potential lies. As Einstein says, any problem cannot be solved with the same attitude that created it, and you need to develop newer approaches towards the solution. Powered with strong guidance from Prof. (Dr.) S. A. Patil, and an amazing team of four people, we somehow managed to do initial literature surveys, contacting every shit of startup in India working on 3d printer, mailing and calling them, fixing appointments & studying details of every available models. And, well begun is always half done. Finally, this initial work ended up with a strong knowledge on 3D printer and a team that was already tuned and all set for having 3D printer, of our own. Being Electronics and telecomm students, software and electronics part of project were our area of ease and ended as soon as it started. The most vital and complex part, mechanical structure was still a rocket-science for us. But, it’s always because of good people on the earth, which keeps the things going, my most trusted mechengineer, Rishikesh, worked really hard to finally get out of this critical situation. And now, mechanical parts have been so familiar with us that it feels good to get the hands dirty on grease of couplers, bushings, bearings, polished rods, etc. and, as dirty hands are sign of good money, it meant a sign of original work and no outsourcing in our case! And now, it feels great to confirm 85% completion of work till date, way more ahead of schedule. Also, there is satisfaction of work that, everything, right from a screw to entire assembly, is 100% authentic & original work. Major innovation include the original model, and one of the cheapest 3D printer ever made in India, at an approx. price of Rs.17000.

Now, going back to second paragraph of this blog, the end of this blog is complete paradox. As AzimPremjisays,”If people aren’t laughing at your ideas, you are still thinking average”, it holds true. It’s not what people think of you, makes your end product, but it’s always your own attitude towards it. Don’t let your attitude be contaminated by others opinion and end up under-performed. The main objective of writing this blog, was just to emphasize on counting new possibilities and avoiding mediocrities. Mediocrity creates mediocre results,but we aren’t born that way. Let’s cut straight to chase, and strive to do it better than anyone else. That’s all, there is, to it. All the very best.