A transition from Spring to Summer

With the erratic weather pattern this year, I am not sure which season it is. We had one week of summer just after winters in early March, and then suddenly, heavy spring rains arrived and our hilltop was filled with howling cold winds and roaring thunder for almost 3 weeks. But after that cold spell, everything around us seems to be coming alive with the biodiversity - early wild flowers, all kinds of insects and spiders coming out of their hibernation (or maybe they are hatching) and shoots of green wild grass everywhere. It's a beautiful sight and every morning the earth seems more awake than it was yesterday. 

While enjoying this extended spring beauty and juggling between different projects, I didn’t even realize that the first quarter of this year is already over. So, this week I have decided to write about all the different projects that we have taken on so far.

Building a Space for Collaboration

The first one is what we started in December 2025. We signed an MOU with a university to set up a deep tech lab at their campus. The idea isn't just to set up another lab, but to create a space where people/students from different domains can come together and build products. For the past 10 years, all we have done is build products, ranging from smart home devices, industrial IoT, medical devices to robotics, and with this lab, we want to build a space where we can share whatever we have learned so far. Also, we plan to work on some bigger projects in collaboration with the university faculty (We recently won the Jal Shakti Hackathon together and are now working on the POC.)

A Fun Hardware POC

And then there is another client project, which is a POC for a consumer product. It's a fun hardware concept with a lot of firmware complexity, so we thought why not explore it as well.

Teaching on Weekends

Recently, Arpit started teaching a course on Battery Management Systems for EVs for an online learning platform. We always imagined ourselves teaching hardware to others in the future, but I hadn’t thought it would be this year. Even though the deep tech lab setup and projects associated with it take most of our time, we thought why not teach and learn on the weekends.

Science Education in Rural Areas

I am also helping Saryan Vigyan Foundation with planning a workshop for improving basic science education in Kinnaur. It is a project which has been in the making for past 1 year, and I can't wait to share more updates on this once we start it.

The Reality of a Small Team

So, there are days when we only work on a single project and some days are filled with a checklist of small tasks from all the projects combined. And, we need to plan our future lab which we will be building here in Sarahan.

With all this, our robot has again taken a backseat. We started working on it, but every other project had a deadline, so we decided to first meet those deadlines and then figure out how to make time for our robot.

And I guess that’s the reality of building hardware with a very small team. You complete whatever project you can, and keep planning the rest, and trust that everything - like the wildflowers on this hill - has its own season to bloom.