Chennaites get ready for some visual and auditory delights this weekend
Chennaites get ready for some visual and auditory delights this weekend when Shaastra, IIT Madras� tech fest, begins. There will be air shows, 3D displays and an event with virtual instruments.Among the highlights of the four-day event that begins on Saturday will be Envisage, a tech show that will have a music performance where students will play instruments without touching them, and a 3D show called the Persistence of Vision.
The air show where 3Dfliers Marian Mader, Gunther Gold and Wolfgang Krahofer will be displayed is expected to be a big draw.The finals of the Lunar Rover Challenge will be held here. Students who design the best robotic craft will assist Team Indus, which is designing a craft that could be sent to the moon in 2015 as part of the Google Lunar X Prize contest.
There will be
lectures by eminent personalities, including Michael Meyer, lead scientist of
NASA�s Curiosity Mars Rover Project, and Richard Stallman, pioneer of Open
Source Software.
