Robo Egg !

Wednesday March 21, 2007 at 2:29 am | In Iran, Life, My Projects, Norouz, Tehran Polytechnic, personal, pictures, robocup |

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Today is Persian New Year (Norouz). One of the greatest traditions of Norouz is Haft-Sin table which includes seven items specific starting with the letter S or Sîn (س) in Persian alphabet). The items symbolically correspond to seven creations and holy immortals protecting them.

Egg do not start with Sin (S)(س) in Persian alphabet, but egg decoration is very popular among Iranian families, They add decorated eggs to their haft-sin table.

Each year, near Norouz, a popular contest is held in our faculty named “Egg Decorating Contest“. Students from all over our university take part in this big contest. It was the second year that I gave my friends an idea to decorate the egg! (Just the idea, I can not even paint a simple sheet of paper!)

Last year this egg finally became one of the top 20s (Thanks Shokoofeh):

Basket Egg Ball !

This year I didn’t have time to participate, but again I just gave one of my friends the idea. We are all member of Parsian Robotic Group, which is a robotic team working on a group of Small Size Robots. This year is the second year we are working on this project and our team is one of 16 teams which were qualified for this year RoboCup Competitions.

What could be more better than a “Robo Egg” ?? This egg didn’t took place in top 20s, but the Judge Team gave that egg a special prize for the concept !!! Here are some other pictures of the egg beside one of our robots:

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As I told, I didn’t go to take photos from this year contest, but last year (@ March 13th 2006) I got some great photos which I didn’t publish, if you want to see some creativity of decorating eggs, take a look:

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  1. Political trends are destroying the Persian blogsphere. if you want to show a real and truthful perspective of Iran to all the international audience, you have to not forget your countrymate intelligences. For example, I was surfing Kourosh Ziabari’s blog (http://cyberfaith.blogspot.com) and even now I can not accept that he is a 16 years old Iranian boy. specially he says that he is from northern Iran… why you don’t take him part in social and cultural activities or why you let him to be forgotten simply? introduce him by writing posts or giving links to his articles and help his language skills to be improved.
    you are there far in CA and he is left alone in Iran…

    Comment by Martin — Saturday April 7, 2007 #

  2. Nice blog.
    well done, keep it on …

    Comment by alisanaei — Monday May 21, 2007 #

  3. http://derafsh-kaviyani.com/data/

    Comment by ss — Wednesday July 25, 2007 #

  4. Fascinating - I never knew other cultures painted eggs, the way we do in the West with Easter.

    Comment by Cool — Tuesday August 21, 2007 #

  5. Belated Norooz Mobarak :)

    Comment by nagchampaincense — Monday September 17, 2007 #

  6. alert(”heloo”);

    Comment by iman — Wednesday September 26, 2007 #

  7. Few days back when i dropped in here and wanted 2 leave a comment.. I got some error message!

    Test :D

    Comment by Ponnarasi.K — Tuesday November 6, 2007 #

  8. Great idea the “Robo Egg”

    Comment by Maximilian — Thursday April 24, 2008 #

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