When I was young, my mom used to ask me and my brother to turn off stove after 5 minutes as she has put milk for boiling. Many times, we would lose track of time due to our play or some interesting program on TV and go to turn off the stove a couple of minutes late. By this time, the milk would have welled-up and spill all over the kitchen. It would be a total mess.
So, in my 11th grade, I came up with an idea to put a timer to my gas stove. My brother and I designed, and had it built. We had participated in the Intel National Science Talent Discovery Fair (INSTDF- 2005) with our invention. We had an electronically controlled gas-valve that would turn off the stove automatically upon the timer reaching zero.
With the suggestion of the judges at the INSTDF-2005, especially, Dr. Bhattacharya, we incorporated a temperature control using a thermocouple and a gas-leak detector that turns off the gas stove upon detection of a leak a well as alarm the user. We had a working prototype and had performed multiple experiments to find out the cooking times and temperatures of various recipes.
This was one of the earliest projects that have pushed my brother and me to venture into engineering and research.
This was the first invention of My brother, S V R Krishna Vivek and Me.
In this video we are explaining about the various features and buttons on our device.
This was the first invention of Me and My Brother.
In this video, we are demoing the features of our device and a few use cases.