DIY
Open Source Artificial Pancreas ♥
This is pure awesomeness!!! https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/04/20/homemade-artificial-pancreas-system-for-type-1-diabetes-uses-raspberrypi-onlyhuman-wnyc/
Arduino
USBasp 10 Pin Programmer – Provotech/Allsensor
I recently purchase a USBasp programmer for some advanced programming and also for burning Bootloaders on some Atmel ICs and I was tired of using Arduino as an ISP or Bitbanging with an FT232R. This is the one I purchased: I was very excited to play around, but had to Read more…
DIY
A funny Bristlebot
I had to make a small demo of a minimalistic DIY Robotic kit and was struggling with gears and intial torque and inertia etc, post which the working of Bot wasn’t exciting, just mundane. A chance link brought me to BristleBot, and I was blown away. Fortunately (Alhamdulillah), I had Read more…
Android
Repairing my Nexus One LCD Screen
The journey of repairing my Nexus One began here. I saw this cute little cover for my Nexus One and shared it on G+: And then since I didn’t really have a 3D printer, I decided to buy new clothes for my phone and grabbed this one off Amazon: 48 Read more…
Electronics
MicroPython – Python for Microcontrollers
I was greeted by an awesome message from my pal Aman when I logged into Facebook: and that led me to this page: http://micropython.org/ Looks very cute, has met all of the stretched goals that will now allow it come with support for WiFi, Ethernet and low power wireless support through Libraries. Read more…
Arduino
Writing firmware directly on the Bluetooth Module
During my daily dose of Hackaday, I came across this awesome post of directly flashing firmware onto the Module. This (if I understand it correctly) will eliminate the use of a Micro-controller for simple operations. See Hackaday post for more details 🙂
Android
GDG Dev Fest — Using Chrome Serial API to talk with Arduino
I happened to present a talk at the Google Dev Fest Hyderabad that took place this Saturday, 5th October, 2013. I’ve uploaded the slide decks used and also the code used in the demo. Please find them below. If you need any help on implementing these, please reach out to Read more…
Arduino
Soldered minimalist Arduino
A minimalist Arduino allows for portability while retaining the Arduino fun 🙂 This is the most basic version without any voltage regulatory circuit: Use any USB – Serial converter to upload the sketches from the PC. I used the CP2102 one.
Arduino
3 Wire Serial LCD using ShiftRegsiter
I came across this nice link and after couple of hops landed on this page that briefs out nicely how to make a simple 3 wire Serial LCD using a Shift Register. https://bitbucket.org/fmalpartida/new-liquidcrystal/wiki/Home Need to try this out, will save us a couple of precious pins 🙂