CONVOLUTION

 

 

 

 

ATTENTION!! All participating teams please bring a) 2 Breadboards b) two to three 9 Volts batteries and c) a wire stripper along with you to the venue on the day of the event!!!

 

Do you live for the moment when you plug in the power

and the circuit comes to life?

Then you are at the right place! Convolution 2014 presents

 

             Circuistic 1.0 is about acquainting yourself with moderate level circuit building problems. Participating teams will be provided with a problem which would require them to build a circuit that would perform some operations. The participants have to make their designed circuits on a bread board; however the choice of circuit components shall be restricted to the list of components that we are going to provide you. These components will be available with us in plenty at the venue on the day of the event.This comprehensive hands-on experience of building a real circuit is going to give the participants a head start and will provide Volt them with a platform that will act as the stepping stone for larger and more complicated circuit building problems that they will have to face in the near future.

Number of participants per team: 3 to 5

 

 

When?

 

15th February, 2014, at 9:00 am.

 

Groups: 2 Groups — Group A (1st year students only), Group B (2nd, 3rd and 4th years)

Registration
Any one member of the team can register. Mention the

information of the other members in the additional message option.

 

 

 

You can also register on spot on 15th February from 9:00 am if there are vacancies.

 

 

Rules and Guidelines

 

• Problem to be provided on spot. (Sample problems to be uploaded on the website a few days before the competition — so stay in touch!)

• There are going to be two categories: Group A (For 1st year students) and Group B (For 2nd, 3rd & 4th year students)

• Each section will have one problem.

• The participants are expected to arrive on the day of the event for registration and confirmation at the department, at the specified time.

• The circuits will be implemented on breadboards and hence no soldering equipment will be required.

• Multi-meters and Oscilloscopes might be necessary for testing the circuit. These equipments will be available with the volunteers present at the venue. Participants in need of any of these equipments are expected to report to the volunteers who are going to take the necessary steps.

• Participants have to bring atleast two 9 volt batteries and two breadboards along with them to the venue, along with a wire stripper. They need not bring any circuit element with them. A wide variety of circuit elements and equipments which may be needed for the provided problem will be available at the venue.

• Participants must bring with them their college IDENTITY CARDS for the purpose of verification.

• The participants can consult any book available at the departmental library.

• Maximum number of circuits a team needs to build: 1

• Participants can move about anywhere in the campus during the event, refer any book, internet, but cannot carry the circuit and/or circuit elements outside the venue.

• Any participant, who leaves the hall with any circuit component, or any instruments, will be immediately disqualified.

• In case a participant needs to check his/her circuit in any particular laboratory, he/she may be allowed to take the circuit outside the classroom only with the approval of volunteers present at the venue.

• Maximum time for the event: 7 hours

• Along with the circuit, the participants are required to submit a brief schematic of their idea. 

• Points and scoring will depend on Innovative Thinking, Cost Minimization, Accuracy and Presentation. Top 2 teams from each group will be awarded.

• Judgement criteria: Exact Judgment parameters will depend on the problem statement and the participants would be notified about the same on the day of the event.

• The judgement made by the panel of judges will be final.

 

Event organizers:

 

Samik Sadhu (9836533795)

Sayak Roy Choudhury (9007495010)

 

For beginners, we have created a very basic Tutorial about electrical circuit building (mostly circuits with dc sources). Click on the above link and have a enjoyable time engineering!

 

A Very Basic Sample Problem for Group B Participants:

 

                            An oxygen purifier in a hospital requires, for normal operation, an uninterrupted DC voltage of not less than 4.5 V and not more than 10 V. For optimal operation, an adapter is used which steps down the 220V AC supply to a 9 V DC source. However, because it needs an uninterrupted supply of > 4.5 V, the hospital maintains a stable backup reserved battery source of 5 V DC in case of a power failure. The authority hired you to make the necessary circuitry to switch on the reserved 5 V DC source automatically when the power supply (9V DC) is shut down, and also switch back to the 9 V source when the main power source is on again. Design and implement the necessary system.(You dont have to make the adapter, consider that you have been given a 9 V source).