Systems/Robotics Projects DAAP, University of Cincinnati: Robotics, Furniture and Exhibits were part of a series of design excercises assigned to industrial design students at the junior and senior levels, especially as a follow up to the Design technology series i have taught at the university of Cincinnati. Powercell/ Daewoo small car Design: C3DI was involved in the development of a series of alternative enrgy packs for powercell - Cambridge based start up company in the alternative fuels marketplace. Design visualization played a major role in the marketing approach which involved the illustration of various spatial configurations of the fuel cells within existing vehicles and some times developing whole new layouts. SGI/ Alias Studio The 3D models were built and rendered on an SGI workstation with Alias Studio software. Animations and Marketing material produced using Macromedia Director. Lighting and Packing design DAAP, University of Cincinnati: The packaging design projects were assigned to second year students to satisfy their desire to tackle real world design problems while maintaining from the sensibilities learned in the Freshman Foundation Program. Colour, formal transitions and system consistency were emphasised. The lighting project addressed the model making skills of these students while providing substantial practical experience in building working prototypes.

FloBOT: Lakes across the country are depleting and are becoming heavily polluted. Raw sewage from apartments and abattoirs, garbage, and debris being dumped into lakes and water bodies. A need became imperative to make available information on various parameters such as Dissolve Oxygen (DO) levels, PH, Dissolved solids etc., present in water to understand the level pollutions so that an alert can be sent to all concerned on real time basis. "FloBOT" is a concept developed by "testing waters" young start up and handheld by designer Kishore Babu into a marketable product. It is portable and handy. This remotely controlled product moves around, collects data and transmits information on real time basis and uploads data on to loT accolades. Testing in Progress Heat Map of Avalahalli Lake SMS. Industrial Design: Kishore Babu Client: Testing Waters Wickless Pressureless Stove: 60 percent of India's population lives in villages. Housewives in these villages predominantly use firewood for cooking. Other alternatives available are pressure pumping stoves and wick stove using kerosene. Studies showed positive inclination to use wick-based kerosene stoves to replace firewood cooking. However, while kerosene may be available, wicks are not readily available for replacement at village levels. Hence, this need for a wickless and pressureless kerosine stoves which was innovately conceptualized by IISC Bangalore. A laboratary prototype is converted into a marketable product. Industrial Design:kishore Babu Concept: IISC Bangalore

Ceiling Fan Packaging: During the oil crisis, there was a great demand for ceiling fans from USA, Australia and arab countries. In the domestic markets, the major parts of the ceiling fan were packed individually. In India, the customer carries them.This particular statutory requirement offered an opportunity for redesign of the packaging.The individual packings could be dispenced with. The weight and diamentions of individual packs to be handled manually by each operator at the airports/sea ports. Moulded expanded polystyrene pack when used in pair contains major parts for four fans: motors, regulators and suspension rod assembly. The motors are nested in one of the moulded packs- two upright and two upside down- to reduce the frieght volume. Two regulators are accomodated in one unit within the space and the other two regulators are accomodated in one unit within the space and the other two regulators are included in the other unit. the design resulted in considerable reduction in the frieght volume and this made the product very competitive inspite of having a larger diameter motor.