Techno Labs

If you walk into Anagh Residency and head toward No. 102, you’ll find us tucked away. It’s a bit of a squeeze sometimes because this apartment-style space wasn’t originally built to be a technical lab. We’re at 272/4 Mahadik Vasahat, and the area outside is usually humming with people going about their daily business. Inside, things are a bit more quiet, mostly because we’re staring at screens or checking readings on the gear. We’ve got workbenches lined up with various setups that we’ve pieced together over the years. It’s not like those labs you see on television with glowing blue lights and fancy glass walls. Here, it’s mostly gray metal casings, tangled wires, and a lot of note-taking on yellow pads. The tea guy comes by around eleven, and that’s usually when we take our first real break to talk about the weather or the news. Working in a residential area means we have to be careful about not making too much noise or bothering the people living nearby. We try to keep things organized, but when three different projects are happening at once, the tables get covered in tiny components and tools pretty fast. The lighting could be a lot better, but we’ve added a few desk lamps to help with the fine work we do. It’s just a few of us here, doing the technical stuff that needs to get done. We don't spend much time on decorations; we just focus on the calibrations and making sure the equipment is behaving itself.