“SMOOK” was showcased at MSRIT’s “Project Exhibition 2010” conducted recently, at its Bangalore campus
A committed team of four Final Year Mechanical Engineering students of the M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT), Bangalore, under the guidance of Dr. S V Prakash, Asst. Professor have designed and developed an Automatic Cooking Machine which automatically cooks the required dish (like Bisi Bele Baath, Upma, etc) without any human effort.
This machine known an “SMOOK” was showcased by the four students who designed the same – Aanand Thiyagarajan.D, Advith Asranna, Goutham.H and Hatef Hajian, at the “Project Exhibition 2010” organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MSRIT at its campus at Bangalore recently.
“SMOOK” was one of the main attractions at the exhibition and it won many accolades from the visiting dignitaries including the Vice Chancellor of VTU, Prof. H P Khincha, Mr. M R Seetharam, Vice-Chairman, Gokula Education Society and various Principals of Karnataka based Engineering Colleges.
Said Dr. S V Prakash, Asst. Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MSRIT, “The Automatic Cooking Machine is an attempt at intelligent cooking. In today’s world where man can fly and has explored outer space the average human being still prepares his meal manually. Thousands of people, everyday, spend their time in the kitchen preparing food. The Automatic Cooking Machine aims at eliminating this. As the name implies, it is a machine which automatically cooks the required dish by the press of a button.”
This machine uses a microcontroller to control two stepper motors. For each dish / recipe a separate program is written and burnt into the above said microcontroller. The first motor rotates to get the second motor into position. The second motor is then actuated to make the required amount of the ingredient fall. The amount of the ingredient falling can be controlled by the program.
“The total cost of the machine comes to less than Rs 3000. In the future we can expect such machines to make their way into our kitchen gradually and make our lives easier. It has everything except the love which our mothers add on when they make those tasty dishes” added Dr. S. V Prakash.