Thinking @ Speed of Light

Time: April 2nd 2011, 3AM Location: Shambhavi Palace, Manipal. The whole building is asleep. Two engineers toil through the night building the quadrocopter. Hunger sets in and they decide to make some food. The kitchen cupboards are full. The eggs are plenty. There is bread . There is butter. There is cheese and there is Maggi. The only problem there is no gas lighter or matchstick that can be used to ignite the stove. While in Manipal i have on occasion used the heat from my laptop to heat burgers (Only possible while rendering or playing a intensive video game). However in this case we ( Mudit Gupta and me) needed fire to get the job done. If you ever find your self in a similar situation the following things don't work: Trying to burn a resistor on the stove. Trying to blow up a capacitor above the stove. Trying to charge and then discharge a 470uF capacitor over the stove. Trying to charge and then di...

I am building a quadrocopter and was making the frame for it (post on this to follow soon). For building that in needed a drill so i thought i would buy one. As i just wanted to drill holes in aluminium i decided to go for a cordless drill because is will serve my purpose and just feels cooler. Therefore about 4 days ago i bought a cordless drill/screwdriver form Vasuki machine tools,Udupi (if you are the owner of the shop i need a discount next time). Work was going on smoothly until one of us started to feel hungry. Now all we had at home were eggs so we decided to make an omelette. That is when this insane idea struck us that we should use the drill to make the omelette. Don't believe me? See for your self After all this i started to work on my quadrocopter and in an a glue gun accident burnt my finger so we needed ice. The problem was that we had no ice in the fridge but for the past few days the fridge was act...