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Two jars, 110 glasses, and a 55–55 finish

How the day went at our IoT Summit ’26 booth in Visakhapatnam: 110 glasses scored, 86 ideas left behind, and a board that would not break the tie.

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Two jars and a live scoreboard

What we built for the IoT Summit in Vizag on 17 September 2026, and the month of drilling, wiring and pouring that got it working.

The one room a phone does not follow you into

Ritesh Bonthalakoti on VAHA, our entry to the Arduino Physical AI Challenge India 2026 — a voice-capture device for the bathroom that runs its wake word, transcription and sensing entirely on the board.

Speech recognition that runs on the device

Ritesh Bonthalakoti on getting speech-to-text and text-to-speech working without sending any audio away to be processed.

Mapping the Bluetooth stack

Harsha Vardhan Patri on the Bluetooth Low Energy work that everything else in a device ends up depending on.

Taking a load cell apart until it makes sense

Nanupatruni Mahesh Kumar on getting weight measurement to behave. In his words, we do not just use technology, we take it apart.