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A 14 year old’s journey to making drones | Harshwardhan Zala | TEDxDAIICT


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hi amar scotland’s Allah and I’m 14
years old and the founder and CEO of a
robotic 7 a tech startup today I am
going to talk about the drone
technologies that I built and my journey
towards that goal ever since I was 10
I was very interested in electronics and
technologies and always tinkering with
any little electronic things that I
found my first project was a
remote-controlled home automation system
I was wondering that if done a simple TV
remote they’d only control the TV if it
could be possible to convert a simple TV
remote to control all over the home
appliances like you can control lights
and friends I started research on it on
the Internet I found some technologies
IR and so many sir and I built the model
and if I press the one button so I can
turn on the fan I can turn on of the fan
by by this there was no stopping me I
was always doing extraordinary things
out of ordinary things and always
passionate about solve the problem sold
the existing problems around the world
by the time when I was 12 years old I
just completed 42 projects in 8 robots
sometime in July 2015 I came across a
YouTube video where some of few soldiers
in Afghanistan were died who are looking
into slain minds and landmines exploring
this video wonder me if it could be
possible to make something that
that can detect the landmines and
without human risk
so I started research on this field I
started research on the landmines how
what is the landmines how it will be
work what type of materials in landmines
are using and all type of technologies
are available in the traditional way I
want to convert the traditional way into
smarter way and I started my research on
internet and found some things the
technologies in the traditional way are
using the handheld metal detector to the
Army soldiers will go to test fill and
detect the landmines but there is a
human risk so I started making a robot a
simple and small all-terrain vehicle I
attached a detector on it and started
detecting elements it can detect the
landmines but the problem is ATV was
every now and it could trigger the
landmines so it can damage it so I’m
wondering what is the thing that
wouldn’t touch the ground and fly upon
the sky I started my research on the
internet and I found one word drones I
started research on drones what is shown
how it could be made and what type of
technologies are using in the drone how
I can manage to do that and all the
technologies in the traditional way the
traditional technology is doing using
electromagnetic induction induction so
you can connect the metal detector of
type type of thing but there is problem
there are so many plastic mines over
there so you cannot detect this because
they have only few amount of metal so I
started making a technology a
revolutionary technology that I come up
with and I started on my first project a
first drone a first prototype
that can detect the landmines at the
real time and that called Eagle s7 this
innovation got me invited to the silicon
valley’s rah RC fellowship and Maker
Faire Bay Area 2016 in the USA for
makers where I started developing my
second prototype of Eagle s7 because I
need something better than the first one
because first only have a few amount of
technologies so I started researching
how I develop a better than the first
one so I created my own 3d printed body
you can see over there the yellow one I
started I created my 3d printed body and
used better technologies I used 3d
mapping terrain mapping technology and
it could connect the to the military’s
ground station so it is possible to
military possible for military to track
the accurate location with the size and
layouts and accurate amount of in the
real time the military can see was what
type of materials are there in the
ground and it can do in the real time
right now this prototype improved
prototype has not the complete solution
for this thing so and it can’t complete
all type all minor problems that I using
so right now I am working on the third
prototype which can not only detect the
landmines but it can destroy the
landmines in the real time with the help
of detonator box which weighs only 30
grams after this prototype right now I
am working with this revolutionary
technology that are not available in the
world right now and I’m using the
traditional technology and the smart
technology both in this and right now my
patent is pending or in the five
countries including India
when I realized the potential of my
technology I want to spread it to the
world I decided to make my own startup
company and I I created my own startup
called a robotic seven and joined some
of my friends this innovation is the
main part of our startup people often
wonder where I learned all the physics
mathematics networking and programming
from so most of my knowledge I learned
from internet you’d be amazed to know
that there are so many resources and
information available out there I
learned about IDs land mines all type of
technologies that I need to don’t drones
mechanism aerodynamics algorithms all
type of programming languages networking
all from the internet I spend an average
eight to twelve hours a day on the
computer learning new things
funding was a problem for me it took me
a while to take funding from the
government
Aysel fund all my initial projects I
come from a humble home and could only
borrow up to some certain amount of
money from my parents so I started
taking tuitions for engineering students
and help them with their final year
projects
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now I have my own startup and recently
signed MoU with the government and for
the further development of drone
technology at the end all I want to say
is there are so many problems out there
in the world all we need to do and we
have the potential to solve them all we
need to do is put all our efforts in it
and let not failures to stop us to cut
Edison
I will not failed I just found 10,000
ways thank you
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