Kurva Prashanth works as a Research Assistant in the Robotics Research Center at the Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems, IIIT Hyderabad. He is currently engaged in studying bird flight and flapping wings, with a focus on designing a mechanism to mimic bird flight behavior and understand the natural movement of flapping wings. He is also passionate about promoting equitable education and is enthusiastic about STEM subjects, particularly in the context of building robots and sensor applications.
Prashanth was introduced to Open Hardware and Embedded Linux while studying electronics and embedded systems as part of his robotics coursework. Initially, he did not pay much attention to it and quickly moved on. However, a short talk on “Liberating SBCs using Debian” by Yuvraj at MiniDebConf India 2021 caught his interest. The talk focused on Open Hardware platforms such as Olimex and BeagleBone Black, as well as the Debian distributions tailored for these ARM-based single-board computers. This talk intrigued him to delve deeper into the realm of Open Hardware and Embedded Linux. These days he is trying to improve his abilities to contribute to Open Hardware development board projects and Debian.