About “How do Gadgets work” newsletter
The year is 2013. My experience driving a car completely changed once I learned how its intricate mechanisms and electronics work under the hood during my undergraduate days studying mechanical engineering. So then imagine a life where we go about our day understanding the physics and science of all the everyday things we come across!
This is the mission of this newsletter. To change your relationship, teach you the science, and give you a new perspective on gadget science and technology where learning is simple and fun.
Subscribe today to live a conscious and fully present life instead of being ruled by technology, starting today!
Pathless Path
To kick off things, I pursued a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering at NIT-Trichy with a scholarship from the Government of India for securing All India Rank 570 in JEE-Mains. Starting the product designing club Designers Consortium during my time at NIT-Trichy helped me gain leadership experience and build mechanical hardware products with other like-minded folks better than me.
We got featured in national media like The Times of India and The Hindu, which was pretty cool for a bunch of students under 21. However, I was further interested in learning how different branches of engineering like electronics, mechanics, and software come together to make a product work. So I chose to try my hand at building robots.
Building and Breaking
I’m building robots while you’re reading this, but my journey started as a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. My focus on developing motion planners and control systems software for pipe robots, legged robots, quadcopters, cart poles, arm robots, and others led me to where I am today. You can watch the videos and reports of the cool stuff I built during my school days here. This helped me understand electronics, mechanics, and software, and how they interact with each other. Which was exactly what I was looking for!
The constant wonder about how things work and what’s inside keeps me going. Hence picking up Math, Physics and spending an absurd amount of time understanding concepts and solving problems became second nature from my high-school days till date.
Sharing a speck of magic
I was 19 years old, and my experience driving a car was magical once I understood its inner workings. So sorry, I’m not a fan of watching videos that list all the features of a gadget but don’t explain how they work.
Imagine how much you appreciated a meal once you learned to cook. I do exactly that over at My weekly newsletter How do Gadgets Work, explaining how your gadgets work every other Wednesday in 3 minutes, no matter your background. Subscribe today and see the world differently ever after! Make my day, thanks and cheers.
Above and Beyond
Outside of work, I play music, read non-fiction, and travel solo to have different experiences and perspectives. Learning random skills like memorizing the entire deck of 52 cards in a short while, performing tricks in yoyo, giving myself a haircut, etc. are second nature.
I’d love to hear from you as well, so say hello if you’d like to connect. I try and reply to every email I get. What’s the point of all this if we do not spend time connecting with fellow humans :)
Have a good day!
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