Interviewing My Friend !

Dias (Krisna Diastama) or Krisna, is a friend of mine. He study in the same school and classroom as i do, which is X IPA 2 or Tenth Grade Science Class 2. I've known him for almost a year or so now. He's a very unique kind of person

At the beginning, I spent lots of time with him as he was very similar to me (the hobbies, how we think, etc) especially because he is in the same extracurricular as me, which is robotic extracurricular (KIT 3). He trained as much as I did in KIT, and he also followed most robotic competition KIT 3 did. Very similar to me.

Speaking about robot....
Do you know that Krisna was one of the inventers?
Yes, indeed. That's what we will talk about here. An interview to one of a robot founder.

Dias on the left. He is using his laptop.

"Hey, Dias. I'm very bored right now. Would you mind if I ask you some questions? It's for the english blog, please." I said .

"Yea sure, while I'm designing this thing (some sort of a logo) on the whiteboard." He replied.

"Okay then! I'm gonna take my notes so I can write it down. Wait there, okay. " I told him.

So I asked him some questions, and he replied while drawing to the whiteboard. Here is some answers.

1. What did you really find, Dias?

Dias invented a robot called Klungbot. He won a robotic competition because of that robot.

2. A competition? When was that being held? Were you still young?

Yes, a real competition. That was being held like 5-6 years ago when Dias was 5th grade in
Elementary School. He was really young that time. Maybe he was like 9 years old or so. But he already lived in Bandung.

3. Could you tell me a little bit more about that competition?

The competition was called INAICTA. INAICTA means Indonesia ICT Award. ICT stands for Information, Comunication, and Technology. So of course there's a robot in there. There must be a robot in there. INAICTA was held in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. So of course Dias went to Jakarta. However, he forgot where it was precisely.

4. That's great. What did you get from your winning? And how did you feel?

Well, Dias got 30 million rupiah from winning ( WOW! ) the competition. It's very huge. He said that it was an easy victory (WOW ! )(2)  on the competition. He said it wasn't so greget or difficult. It was easy, he said. He also said that INAICTA was held for like 3 years, and he won every time he entered the competition (WOW !)(3) . That's for me is mindblowing. He also said that despite the lack of difficulty, winning the competition still made him pumped up to continue researching some other else design of new things. That's pretty cool.


5. Extraordinary! How about the Klungbot itself? What kind of thing Klungbot really is?

About the klungbot, there are many real examples now after Dias and his father introduced the klungbot (Yes, his father teached Dias) to the world. You can read it in websites etc.

Klungbot. It's not a kind of humanoid robot, which means it is not like the usual robot we imagine similar to human. It's a machine, if you want to call it that way. Klungbot is Angklung robot. Angklung is a tradisional sundanese musical instrument. Angklung can only be played when there's a lot of angklung, as one angklung represent one musical note. With this, angklung can be played very easily.

Dias and father made it because at first they wanted to make a robot that can play musical instrument. They chose a robot for angklung, not because it's traditional, or because it's hard. It was actually because it was easy to made the robot to play angklung.

The robot simply has a motor inside. That motor control the beaters that eventually move to hit the angklung. It is that simple, but not easy to made. The motors are put above a desk. So simply the robot hit the angklung fast or slow to vibrate it. It is really depends on whatever the player wants.

That is technically Dias when he was 5th grade or so. He was the boy, with his father, the one who really knows how klungbot works, Mr. Eko Mursito Budi. Mr Eko is a professor who are now teaching in one of the best institute in Indonesia,  ITB ( Institue of Technology Bandung ). He is a physics professor. Of course he is good at robot

So that's one of the video of Krisna Diastama and his Klungbot. Very interesting, right! 

Hope you enjoy my interview, that's all for now!

Thanks !