The lab bench · numbers, wires, and one running joke

Instrumentation

I have kept a journal most nights since PhD started — sleep, screen time, what I spent, whether I ate something regrettable. This page reads that database directly. Nothing here is retouched, which is occasionally embarrassing.

Photographs kept 112 Out of considerably more taken

Journal entries logged 792 across 26 months

Mean sleep 7.38 h Target was eight. Target remains aspirational.

Mean screen time 4.88 h Some of it was even work.

Nights that ran past 02:00 600 The compiler was awake too.

Things shipped 7 Definitions of 'shipped' vary

Coffee & tea, since the PhD began

863 cups, day 762 since 22 Jul 2024.

Peer review pending.

Sleep and screens

Aug 2026

31 entries recorded

Sleep (h) Screen (h)

Avg sleep 7.1 h

Avg screen 6.1 h

Spent ₹21,080

Junk-food days 26/31 longest clean run: 2 days

Nights past 02:00 20

Last 24 months

Avg sleep (h) Avg screen (h)

24 of 26 months · read live from the journal database

Room controls

Simulated · obviously

Desk lamp

OFF

Ceiling fan

OFF

Unlabelled relay

IDLE

Nothing moved. No electrons were harmed, no relays clicked, and my room remains undisturbed. The real versions of these — a NodeMCU relay board with manual override and an emergency cut-off — are documented in two published papers, and the live dashboard is on the campus intranet where it belongs.

Other things that run

01

AeVP — Interactive Autoencoder Visualiser

Build, train and poke at convolutional autoencoders in the browser. Latent space, activations and reconstructions, live.

live 02

IoT Hospital Equipment Tracker

Front end is up; the Raspberry Pi and NodeMCU half is still on the bench.

wip 03

Institute Blogging Platform

Self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi under a desk in Guwahati.

live 04

Khushi Mishra — NEET counselling portal

Design and build for a medical student turned mentor.

live

05

Personal Intranet Journal

Six hundred-odd days of sleep, spend and second-guessing. Campus network only — the numbers on /lab come from it.

private

06

Home Automation Dashboard

Controls the room. Occasionally controls the room I did not intend.

private

07

Weather station on the balcony

Sensors are wired. Enclosure is theoretical. Monsoon is not.

wip

08

GitHub

Sparse, honest, occasionally documented.

live

Guestbook

Empty so far. There is a button above, and there are five other ways in — some of which need a keyboard, some of which need a thumb. On a desktop, rvm.help() in the browser console lists what it can do.