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With ISRO assistance, India’s Skyroot Aerospace aims for maiden rocket launch by Dec-2021. This is seen as a major milestone in the long-drawn process of building a space faring rocket.

It is founded by Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka, both former scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

Two of the company's rocket stages are getting ready for test firing in six months. The company manufactured India’s first 3D printed Cryogenic rocket engine. They have received an initial funding of Rs. 31.5cr and are expected to receive Rs. 90cr over the next one year.

Compared to traditional manufacturing, this reduced the overall mass by 50 per cent, thus reducing the total number of components and lead time by 80 per cent.

They have some basic rocket engine testing facilities of their own and the rest are to be provided by ISRO. In terms of procuring components, there is a reasonably well developed infrastructure in India, thanks to ISRO. Also manufacturing is relatively low cost in India, reducing the overall cost of the project. For the launch pad and Mission control they would be making use of ISRO facilities.

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As being the fastest supercomputer beating the IBM Summit, Fugaku which has ARM based CPU is helping in diagnostic and simulation of coronavirus spread, what existing drugs might be repurposed to counter it, and how a vaccine could be made. It operates at 2GHz in normal mode and at 2.2GHz in Beast mode.

It has already run simulations on how respiratory droplets spread in partitioned office spaces and on packed trains when the carriage windows are open.
With its marvelous speed the researchers want to know the behavior of the virus. Other than this in seismically active Japan, Fugaku will model the impact of an earthquake and tsunami, and map out escape routes.

Other government-targeted application areas include disaster-prevention simulations of earthquakes and tsunami; development of fundamental technologies for energy creation, conversion, and storage; creation of new materials to support next-generation industries; and development of new design and production processes for the manufacturing industry.

It is the product of a public-private partnership between Fujitsu and national research institute RIKEN. Fujitsu dispatched the first units of Fugaku to the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe. Fugaku is another name for Mount Fuji.
( Source: Fujitsu
Riken,IEEE spectrum,The Guardian )

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The Starlink project is a satellite constellation being constructed by SpaceX. The constellation will consist of thousands of mass-produced small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), working in combination with ground transceivers.

The SpaceX satellite development facility in Redmond, Washington houses the Starlink research, development, manufacturing, and on-orbit control operations. The total cost of the decade-long project to design, build, and deploy the constellation was estimated by SpaceX in May 2018 to be about US$10 billion.

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We can use Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and epicycles to trace an image. It’s basically stacking multiple vectors on top of each other, each rotating at its own angular frequency. The paths traced by those vectors are called epicycles. Check out all the 3 posts to know how this is achieved along with the code implementation.

To get a deeper understanding, check out the videos of 3Blue1Brown, Mathologer and many other interesting resources. (Links in bio)

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Indian port operators will adopt Blockchain technology to digitize the shipment industry.

Cargo facilities at several Indian ports, including major ones like Vizag, Marmagao, and Mundra, will all be integrated on the platform soon.

The shipping industry particularly, depends on paperwork and a lot of legal hassles, and blockchain-based systems may help greatly to ensure smooth functioning.

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Holla! We are out with the results of Make-A-Thon!

The winner of Make-A-Thon for building bot in order to automate tasks in Social Media Apps is:
🏅 Vaishnavi Patil (from IIT Dharwad)
She created a bot to automate the creation of Whatsapp groups for her college activities.

Learn To Skill Up is pleased to announce that few more participants will get rewards for their hardwork and their amazing ideas!

We are offering 50% off on any one of our future webinars to these participants!

● Omkar Zemse (from Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai)
For creating a chatbot type bot for Twitter.

● Shivam Agnihotri (from SAKEC, Mumbai)
To scrape data from LinkedIn into a CSV file for job opportunities.

● Abhirup Singh (from Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai)
For creating a Whatsapp bot for bulk sending of messages.

✨Congratulations everyone! Keep it up!

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In the European Union (EU), commercial vehicles are responsible for 25 percent of the CO2 emissions produced by traffic – and therefore accounts for five percent of total greenhouse gas emissions.

To reduce CO2 emissions, the German semiconductor company Infineon Technologies will be using its semiconductor devices to build an E- Truck for promoting CO2 neutrality by focusing on electric mobility for logistics solutions.

The electric truck will be commissioned at its Regensburg site in Germany after two weeks of testing.

EU is slowly following the suit: The average CO2 emissions of heavy-duty commercial vehicles are to be at least 30 percent below 2019 levels by 2030.

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This is the second time Russia is implementing blockchain technology for conducting elections.

Blockchain based electronic elections were carried out for the first time in Moscow last year.

After conducting local elections using blockchain technology, the participants were also asked if they were interested in having to vote through blockchain again in the future to which an overwhelming positive response of 83% was recorded. It was done with the help of Kaspersky Labs.

Moscow's electronic elections guaranteed complete anonymity and observance of ballot secrecy. The voter identity can not be connected with the ballot he/she made. After confirmation of the effective franchise at personal mos.ru account, an anonymized electronic depersonalized ballot is stored on the blockchain.

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This an open source FPGA project which aims to recreate the classic computers and gaming consoles. It runs a separate “hardware emulation core” for each console, computer or arcade board. In order to accurately create these cores, you essentially need to recreate the original hardware in HDL (Hardware Description Language), which is more similar to schematic coding than the traditional one.

The features of Terasic D10 Nano FPGA are :-

1.Altera Cyclone V SE FPGA and 5,570Kbit of Block RAM.

2.ARM Cortex A9 dual-core CPU at 800MHz.

3.HDMI video and audio allows connection to any modern monitor/TV.

4.DDR3 1GB is available for both ARM and FPGA.

5.High speed ARMFPGA interconnect due to both being in the same chip.

Another advantage is that it is an actual blueprint that is sent to fabricate real chips for manufacturing. That means once all the original hardware is dead and gone, it can be recreated on a chip provided it was recorded perfectly in HDL.

As it is an open source project, it is not a commercial product. It is still a device that requires tinkering to configure, but it is as simple as setting up a Raspberry Pi.

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The teams at University of New South Wales and Delft University of Technology in their independent research developed Quantum devices that could operate at temperature of 1.5 Kelvin that is 15 times hotter than current technology.
The UNSW created 2 qubits consisting of 3 electrons each while the Delft group made 2 qubits containing 1 and 5 electrons each.

As of now, Quantum Computers theoretically require absolute zero i.e 0 Kelvin or - 273.15 degree Celsius but practically work at 0.1 Kelvin. The colder and more isolated the qubit is, less likely it is to flip to another Quantum state when it's not supposed to. The current limitations are that if more qubits are used more heat is generated and the qubits must be kept inside large dilution refrigerators at temperatures hovering just above absolute zero. Several electrons held together in a quantum dot make a silicon spin qubit.

This could help in scaling down the size of Quantum Computers and the dilution refrigerators required.
(Source: IEEE Spectrum )

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Learn To Skill Up presents a refresher webinar on Building AI driven robots using RPA

In this webinar you will learn:
1. What is AI
2. What is RPA
3. You will see how bots work and a brief overview of what we are going to build

No prior knowledge of coding is required.

Date: 7th June, Sunday
Time: 11 am onwards (first come first serve)

To register, check out the link in bio.

DeepSource is a company based in Bangalore and San Francisco which focuses on building code analyzers.

Their website has some pretty cool stuff to get started with. The blog section has some insightful articles touching various domains.
Check them out!

How cool would it be to get your code reviewed for bug fixes, performance lags, security risks and many other issues just before you push it onto the main branch? And that too without any human inspection!
DeepSource is currently working on building such a system. Check out the next 2 posts for more details.

Here are some facts for you:
1. The Uncensored Library was built in collaboration with BlockWorks, an internationally acclaimed design studio and consultancy using Minecraft.

2. The library was built over 3 months and is made from over 12.5 million blocks. It took 24 builders from 16 different countries over 250 hours to design and create the library.

3. The library’s main dome is nearly 300 meters wide, which would make it the second-largest in the world.

4. It gives users access to articles banned in five countries that rank poorly on the non-governmental organization's World Press Freedom Index: Egypt, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam.

5. Some books are narrated audibly since Minecraft doesn’t support Arabic characters in text.

We are seeing massive advances in technology, yet the source of our information is still limited to news broadcasts, online articles and so on. The Uncensored Library Project stands as a proof of the concept that there can be various other creative ways which can be employed to deliver information and still have a profound impact.
We can enjoy the benefits of a virtual library right from the comforts of our home with an immersive experience. This project has definitely pushed the idea of creatively disseminating information and established a ground for exploring Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for this purpose.

We believe that every student has a unique way of approaching a problem. Owing to the plethora of resources and tutorials available currently, each student develops a unique skill which more or less remains restricted to their own self or their own peer group.

And hence we believe in "collaboration" rather than "competition", atleast when the students are still in their learning stage. Our platform will serve as a means for students to collaborate with each other and will help them to fill the missing part of their puzzle for their holistic development.

We are working on bridging the gap between what students learn in college and what is actually needed in the industry.
We plan to take webinars, publish blogs, share information and facts to increase your knowledge.

We are building community where students can share their experiences and knowledge.

For starters, we will be arranging webinar on RPA (Robotics Process Automation). Webinars will include hands-on experience and you will be able to build projects by your own.

We are normal engineering students who are about to graduate.
When we look back, we think that 4 years of engineering could have been more productive if we had a system where the syllabus was not outdated, where more focus was given on building projects and developing skills rather than focusing on submission.

But you know what, it is easy to blame the system and keep moving forward.

You know what is difficult?
To recognize the flaw in the system and prepare yourself to face that flaw.

Well, it's in your hand to do that. And we are here to help you guys out.

It's a proven fact that project based learning is the best way to learn.

And in our country, we focus more on the theoretical knowledge rather than applying it. Simply because our education system has more emphasis on written tests and assignments rather than building projects. Even while building projects, the documentation is given more importance rather than the project functionality itself. That's why many of us tend to stay unemployed as we are unable to bridge the gap between our knowledge and the industry standards.

So let's come together and learn to apply our knowledge rather than just producing it on paper.

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Bringing to you all a programme "Learn to Skill up"
In this programme we will be sharing knowledge by creating awareness about how practical knowledge is important, share facts and trends with you guys so that you can upgrade yourself and also conduct online webinars on latest technological tools.

We are here to build a community where key aspect is knowledge sharing.

We do not represent any organization. We are students like you who have come forward to share insights on technologies that are trending.

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We are on a mission to provide technical knowledge to students of India.

Our aim is to upgrade the skill set of students in order to survive in the industry.

We request you all to join our mission by simply supporting us!

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