Mahindra and Boeing came together to make F/A-18 fighters in India

India's Mahindra Defense System (MDS) has signed a deal with US aircraft maker Boeing to make F/A-18 super hornet jets in India. Hindustan Aeronautics will also participate.

Mahindra Defense System (MDS) up to now has made noncombat defense equipment such as armed vehicles and radar systems.

Details such as how many fighters will be build,cost of the project and when and where production will start is not disclosed yet.Partners said they will make fighters for India, in India.They also said they will also cooperate on research and development.

A source from mahindra said that, the company will initially supply fighter for indian armed force and later may export.The roles of the companies is not defined yet but a mahindra executive said that Boeing will give license for technology, Hindustan aeronautics will be main assembler and Mahimdra defense system will make components of aircraft.

Getting Started With Arduino

Arduino Basics

Making Light Patterns

IF Statement

The if statement is the first control structure.Here is an example of a programming using it:

        

                                                                listing 1.1: blink_if

int delayTime = 1000;

There is no const keyword because this is not a constant.It is a variable(which means its value can change or vary during the program).

delayTime = delayTime - 100;

Here we are changing the value of delayTime by subtracting 100 from it's original value.Since original value was 1000,after this happens the new value will be 900.

if(delayTime <= 0)

{

delayTime = 1000;

}

The purpose of this selection is to make sure the light always blinks.Since we are subtracting 100 from delayTime, we want to keep it from becoming 0 or negative.

The last section of programming turns the led on and off.

India Tested Indigenous Engine to Power UAVs in the Himalayas

Indian scientist have successfully tested a prototype of small turbofan engine named "manik" at Leh situated at an altitude of above 11600 ft.This is part of high altitude cold climate trials.It was started in February this year.

The design,selection of materials and the control logics used for lightning and acceleration of the engine to a minimum speed are validated by this successful test.

As IAF (Indian Airforce) is looking for UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) that can operate in high altitude,the successful test of 450 kg thrust class engine is great achievement.

GETTING STARTED WITH ARDUINO

Tutorial For Beginners

Using a Pushbutton to Control the LED

Blinking an LED was easy,but i don't think you would stay sane if your desk lamp were to continuously blink while you were trying to read a book. Therefore, you need to learn how to control it.

In this case we are going to use simplest form of sensor available:a pushbutton.

digitalRead() checks to see whether there is any voltage applied to the pin that you specify between parenthesis,and returns a value of HIGH or LOW depending on finding.

The if statement is possibly the most important instruction in a programming language,because it allows the computer to make decisions.After the if keyword, you have to write a question inside the parenthesis, and if the answer or result is true, the first block of code will be executed and if answer or result is false then else part will be executed.