The greatest surprise in our Chennai visit was the DIY stuff our host Arun and his son Abishek was doing both inside and outside of RC.  I cannot discuss some of the product ideas and demos he has built, but will post stuff that is mostly RC related and already in public domain.

The first one is this robot built from scratch by Abishek

http://www.youtube.com/user/abishekarun

Welcome to the RC India forum, Abishek   (http://www.rcindia.org/profile/?u=1436)

Reminds me about Robowars. Used to watch it on tv, dont remember which channel though.

Quote from: rajathv8 on August 20, 2010, 12:36:52 PM
Reminds me about Robowars. Used to watch it on tv, dont remember which channel though.

It used to come on TenSports channel.. It was my favourite program! I wish they brought it back

Here are some foam wings cut with a wire cutter by them.

And an "Electrifly VFO" style VTOL aircraft being built out of coro !

Very nice anwar..any plans or any links from where I can build an Electrifly VFO ? Any idea about the setup ?

http://www.rcindia.org/electric-planes/a-strange-rudder-plane/ was the previous discussion on such models.  I am sure you can find a build manual somewhere online, not sure about plans.

Others also seem to have much success with such plans, as this video shows !