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How this site was made.
A note on the people, partners, and open-source work behind marsiiitdm.in. Mostly because attribution is the polite thing to do, partly because we're proud of the build.
01 — Partner
MaRS
None of this matters without the team that builds the rovers. Thanks to the MaRS leads and every member of Team Shunya for trusting us with the brief, sharing material from two seasons of competition, and giving honest feedback on three rounds of design.
02 — 3D Model
Curiosity Mars Rover
The 3D rover model in the hero is “Curiosity Mars Rover” by Cybertron B-127, licensed under CC-BY 4.0. It stands in until MaRS exports a CAD model of their own rover, at which point it will be replaced.
03 — Built with
Open source
Every interaction on this site stands on the work of independent maintainers. Thanks to all of them for shipping software we get to use for free.
- Next.js
App Router · React framework
- React Three Fiber
Declarative WebGL · the rover scene
- Drei
r3f helpers · GLTF loading, environments
- Motion (Framer Motion)
Component-level interactions
- GSAP ScrollTrigger
Scroll-driven scenes
- Lenis
Smooth-scroll
- Tailwind CSS
Styling system
- shadcn/ui
Accessible primitives
We’re four students at IIITDM Kancheepuram, building software and design for teams who care about how things feel, not just whether they work.
MaRS is our first agency partner. If you’re building something that deserves the same care — a club site, a launch page, a small product — we’d love to talk.
05 — Founders
Four founders. Same bar.
The team that designed, engineered, and shipped this site. All four of us are at IIITDM Kancheepuram with you.
Made with care, in Chennai.