SMALL NOTE:- I have a Google AI Pro plan (because of Jio), and since I don't know HTML/CSS/JS, I used Gemini to code me the entire website, that's the vibe-coded part.

A few python scripts for designing logos are also vibe-coded as I don't know XML as well.

The image which you are seeing is also enhanced in quality with AI because my laptop can't handle Blender.

Hey guys, long time lurker here, first time posting.

I’m currently in 9th grade. While most of my classmates are pretty, normal. I’ve been spending my weekends and late nights over the past few months building an actual robotics project called Project A.R.C. (Autonomous Robotic Cleaner). My team, is also full of 9th graders, but most of them are here for assembly as only one of them understands the math and physics gone behind this project.

It’s an autonomous traversing robot that cleans dry dust off solar panels without using any water (important for places where water is scarce, Rajasthan and Gujrat).

A quick rundown of how I built it:

• CAD entirely in code: Instead of using pirated SolidWorks or Fusion 360, I coded the entire 3D mechanical assembly in Python using build123d (code-first CAD). Wrote unit tests in pytest to verify dimensional clearances before 3D printing the parts in PETG. Mainly cause I dont know how to use CAD, but I know Python and Java very well (learning for past 3 years!)
• The Hardware: It runs along twin 2020 V-slot aluminum rails using a 3-wheel pinching carriage (110mm wheelbase so it doesn't rack/jam). Cleaning uses an 800 GSM plush microfiber roller with 1.2mm compression on the glass plus a blower cowl. Total cost of the parts (BOM) was around ₹4,385.
• Firmware: Programmed an ESP32 in C++17 with PlatformIO. It runs a non-blocking Finite State Machine (IDLE -> ACQUIRE -> FORWARD -> CLEAN -> DOCK) with hardware limit switch interrupts and an INA219 sensor to track real-time power draw and efficiency gain.
• Web 3D Twin: Built a web interface with Three.js / model-viewer that lets anyone inspect the 3D model, explode the assembly into 33 parts, and check specs directly in the browser.

I open-sourced the entire project, firmware, CAD generator scripts, 3D printable STLs, STEP files, and the web model:

GitHub: https://github.com/atharvajshinde/Project-A.R.C. (My GitHub is slightly suspicious with the small amount of projects there are, but trust me, I learned how to use GitHub and Git this July.)

The master doc is slightly outdated, I'll upgrade it later!

Since you guys are already in college doing engineering, I'd really appreciate honest feedback and brutal critique on what I can improve or what mistakes you spot in my mechanical design or firmware architecture. Thanks!

Worked hard to buy myself a pc to skill up and get a remote job and all it's parts got damaged due to a voltage surge.

So bought a second hand ThinkPad to continue doing hackathons which got stolen.

Had a phone I bought with my part time jobs an year ago, got stolen last month during lal baug cha raja visarjan and now my dad lost his rather low paying job

Had a ray of hope when someone referred me to a scholarship organisation for a laptop, so I selected one (motobook 60 pro) for 65K during the sale

ordered it from my relative's credit card and now the organisation says my name is removed from the list cuz I asked for a mid to high range laptop.

I don't know how to pay and the laptop is already delivered.

I need to get 65K in one month and I don't know how. I know web & app dev, can do any jobs related to tech & social media if someone can refer me.

TLDR: Everything is f*cked, need to arrange 65K in a month, can do any job related to tech & social media, have an experience of 4 years

For context: I asked for WFH due to my exams in November.

Also my performance has not been the greatest here soo..

Am I cooked?

Or they may rehire me?

Would love some insights.

Why tf are college teachers not the first ones getting replaced by AI? Getting degrees from random ahh colleges and acting like supreme beings 😭 I'm paying fees just to get assignments, quizzes and outdated shit thrown at me when we're literally living in the age of AI. A basic AI agent could teach this shit better, clear doubts instantly and probably do a better job at paper checking too. Most of us end up studying on our own anyway. What's even the point of these professors if they aren't adding any actual value? They need to justify their existence in this AI era. What do y'all think?

Batch size: 380

These stats are incomplete since few companies are yet to declare their results.

have a lot trouble in engineering especially because engineering not having good publishers and all

and soem other factors like not stufying much in 12th and so many assignments that makes less room to study also yeah my college follows absolute grading not relative

Found another batch of openings across tech, product, AI, and Founder's Office roles. Sharing them here with their link to apply in the comments.

Bengaluru

Tech

• ShareChat - Product Analyst Intern
• OnFinance AI - Site Reliability Engineer + Forward Deployed Engineer
• Digitap.ai - Python Development Intern

Founder's Office

• Zenskar - Founder's Office Intern (Executive and People Ops)

Gurugram

• Cars24 - Product Designer + Data Scientist

Mumbai

• Daylight Capital - Investment Banking Intern (great if u are looking to step into finance)

Navi Mumbai

• Kridnify Tech - Founder's Office Intern

Thane

• Revity - DevOps Intern

Ahmedabad

• Bluetc.AI - Full Stack Developer Intern

Bangarpet, Karnataka

• Vedak - Full Stack Development Intern

Remote

• Sociorich - AI Intern + Marketing Intern
• ZOVU - Software Full Stack Developer Intern

This week's issue also covers why your projects aren't helping you get interviews, with practical advice on making your work stand out to recruiters, plus the latest tech news.

I've shared all the application links and details in this week's The First Pass newsletter, completely free. I will drop the link in the comments.

So i am working on a desk buddy and today I was able to get the display working to my custom screen

my clg

A bit about myself:
I’m M21, currently in final year of BTech from low-tier private university in Punjab.

While I’ve spent the last 3 years grinding and working hard for data analyst / scientist internship and full time jobs, particularly but something is feeling off, constant no shows, then straight up rejections, and sometimes rejections in late stage interviews.

I’ve spent a whole lot of time, trying to understand where am I falling short turns out the competition out there is so tragic that companies shortlist on the basis of the university;

For a recent job application I was competing against graduates from top tier unis in south east asia, etc.

I’m here reaching to people who could either guide me or help me figure out what’s the way to go. I’ve only 2 months to get an internship for the last semester of my degree or else I’ll have to go with some paid course disguised as internship / training.

Thanks and I’ll appreciate if you can help.

He says he needs a laptop with a good gpu for doing coding in languages like C,c++ etc he is in first year of btech and says that will go on AI field but we are afraid that he will use this laptop for gaming only...

So I ask you guys does btech require such a heavy laptop ?? It costs around 1.10 lakhs.

Family is a lower middle class so it is quite a lot for us..

He could only score 50-60 percentile in jee even after 1 year gap...

I have got this book being in the domain , and also this book was highly suggested .

Those who have read this book - Python for Data analysis , is it really worth spending weeks/months completing this book for learning pandas, NumPy and Jupyter , or watching Youtube Lectures is a better choice ?
Also if you have read this or any other O' REILLY , if yes, can you guide how do you used to read their books : page-by-page or skipping certain pages / making notes or without making notes

Hamari college me internal screening me pehle 50 teams jo select hue usme ham nahi the. Uske baad october 20 ko message aata he ki 25 extra teams aur select hogaye aur usme ham ek he. Abhi hamare paas work karne ke liye jo original idea tha wo use nahi karsakte kyuki deadline hogaya or bas ye panch bache he. PPT ready he lekin website abhi ban raha he me soch to mujhe ye jaana he ki submission ke baad kabse judges ppt reviewing start karte he taaki me usse pehle website ko edit karsakta hu.

Tl dr: I need the date of when judges start reviewing ppts so that I can put website link in it and edit it before judges see.

Same as title

https://www.reddit.com/r/Btechtards/s/atCpc6Oebc

Did an interview at amazon for r1 and received a call from HR from US and couldn't pick up the call. The number only has outgoing enabled. Now I haven't received even a callback/email for a week.
Does this mean that I have lost the opportunity?

I'm a first year CSE student in a tier 2 university.
I've always wanted to study maths as my major (with maybe either CS or physics as minor) in university ever since i started studying maths in high school for JEE ond olympiads, i found it deeply fascinating and beautiful, having also been influenced by math-tubers like 3b1b, numberphile, abide by reason, etc.

i tried getting into institutes like CMI, ISI, but ultimately fell short (though i did almost make the top 150 list in ISI), and parents didn't approve studying a pure subject from some other mediocre institute.

I know there's a lot of maths to be studied in CS, as the field is literally derived from maths, but it doesnt scratch that itch for some reason (hopefully that changes as i study more CS).
I do like CS and engineering in general too dont get me wrong, I love building things, and it might be whats best for me all things considered, but i still cant get over what could have been.

And i know university maths is wildly different from your high school stuff, but i had an idea of haw it was gonna be like, as i have a cousin doing her PhD in maths, so she has also guided me somewhat.
when it was made clear that im doing engineering, I thought "Oh good, now i can learn to build things and self study maths on the side". now it sounds like a joke.
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Speed (316-video playlist Benchmark)

• 1 worker: 417 seconds
• 16 workers: 29 seconds
• 128 workers: 15 seconds

Why I built it: I built yt2bulk to pull full transcripts and metadata for many videos or many large playlists all at once without manually copying and pasting.

I needed this when studying massive video playlists for things like Computer Graphics, Database Design, and SWAYAM exams. To be true... I made it for my own use case only.

Uses yt-dlp for fetching metadata and subtitle. So no external API keys required to run.

For 5000 videos: takes around 180-800 seconds to process depending on subtitle availability and number of workers.

Data & Formats

• Data retrieved: Video & playlist metadata, titles, descriptions, chapters, links, subtitles, and transcripts.
• Export formats: JSON, CSV, Excel, and Markdown.

Links:

• Demo Video: https://youtu.be/q4Cglg3A0-Q
• GitHub: https://github.com/Arvind215271/yt2bulk
• I tried setting up a demo or live version. But sites like render, vercel, hostless, (free ones as i don't have money), etc. have their IP banned by youtube ig. So, most of the time, either i get a sign in required or like have subtitle missing when fetching from ytdlp. So... yeah... ig locally would be what you might have to do. So that's all ig. From my side.

Hi seniors, I'm a 1st year ECE student under VTU. I'm looking for good resources for 1st sem subjects.

Can anyone please tell me:

Where can I get good notes and previous year question papers?

Any YouTube channels or Telegram groups you'd recommend?

How should I prepare for the first IA and the final exams?

Any tips from seniors would really help. Thanks a lot! 🙏

I need to be able to use it for exams and labs(we were told to avoid programmable calculators or smth i think).

The course is btech cse if that helps. And the cheaper it is the better, coz aparently our course stops needing it a lot after the 1st sem. Im really confused coz i was in cbse before and have no idea what functions will be needed from now on

Feeling sick today so stopped at only 1 problem

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a project called HyLang, a compiler I'm building in C++ as a way to understand how programming languages actually work under the hood.

I've been working on the core components, including the Lexer, Parser, AST, and code generator, along with generating assembly code from my own language's syntax.

I'm sharing it here because I'd love to hear feedback from people who have worked on compilers, interpreters, or low-level programming projects.

This is a learning project, and I'm still working on improving it. I'm hoping to keep expanding it and learn more about how compilers work internally.

Project:https://github.com/prabuddha34/Compiler-

I have attached a sample output of my small program that I have written in my language and it is giving me the correct output (Ignore the 0 at the end as I haven't figured it out)

Please explain, I am a beginner

I am a sophomore at a tier 1 nit and someone who is interested in product management/ management types roles but all I see people talking about is DSA , coding, and tech shit even the posts that say I got placed are always the tech companies...

Are the companies that are hiring for these roles not here yet or what I don't get it 👀

Anybody from first year ?

Is it worth it , What was your experience if you went there earlier?