Smart IR is a patented technology that transforms Android phones into IR remote controls by eliminating the need for dedicated microcontrollers. This innovation significantly reduced costs, enabling integration into devices like the Samsung Note 4. Smart IR has been adopted by many Android manufacturers, preloading the Peel Smart Remote app in over 650 million smartphones.
An app for the Mac that I wrote sometime last year (2020) has been building up an audience of happy users; users who are beginning to talk about it and telling their friends to download it. I have a growing fanbase in China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, not just English speaking countries. What is it? […]
One of the most prolific piece of software I have ever written was a 2-3 month project that was done in 1994. The resultant product sold for over 10 years, supported over 8 Indian languages, worked with the Desktop Publishing software of the time; Word, Wordperfect, Adobe Pagemaker and a whole lot of others. It […]
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A problem found is a problem solved!
Engineering discipline requires that we are always able to answer these two questions… If it doesn’t work, why? If it works, why? Only the first question gets looked at. It’s easy, something is not working; everybody can see it is not working; it needs to start working immediately! Once it starts working, there is a […]
Two projects that I have worked on got the visibility of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India (2002-2007). One of those projects was about the development of a robotic ultrasound scanning system that was used to scan the composite wing skin of a fighter aircraft that was being designed. My team came into the […]
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It’s always (only) the little things!!
The development of the BAAZ prototype was coming to a close. The army troop assigned to the project had been undergoing training for the past month. The devices were going through final tests before we packed them up for their trip by Military transport to North India. Wheels up was 7:00am the next day. The […]
The summer of 2012 has a lot of memories. This is about one of them…one that has lit a fire in me, one that I don’t want to put out. But I’m jumping ahead of myself. We got to see a lot, but from a learning perspective there were two two highlights . The visit […]
Using AVRDUDE to flash an Arduino Nano, I’m emphasizing the importance of using a specific baud rate of 57600. I have included commands for flashing a HEX file and compiling Arduino source code, along with relevant resources that I used to figure this out.
Wrote this a while ago…when I reached 20 years of experience. This post is atleast 15 years old… Work Experience 20 years in Product Development and Product Design Services. Mistral Solutions Inc 2007 – Now Vice President – Design Services (U.S.A) Technical front end for interfacing with customers, and Partners Program management for all projects […]
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What to do…next!
“The future is going to come anyway, the past is already done. The present is what I have, let me give it the best of me.”
If you want a wordpress site, which supports multiple domains, and has https support; this blog post puts together the three requirements into one place. I wrote this because I could not find instructions in one place.
This one is about a three month project that I worked on in 2019. A simple project, it was given to me as something that nobody else wanted to do. No creativity to it, just: we need 25 widgets by next week. I’m using the term “widget” to suggest a completed deliverable unit. Think of […]
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The SATHI Battle Computer
An article in the latest India Today talks about a project for the Indian Military that I had worked on over 15 years ago. Feels awesome that they chose to highlight Project Beta and the SATHI Indigenous Handheld battle computer. A project that was demonstrated to the then President of India, Dr. A. P. J. […]
An interview of mine that was featured on the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Alumni Blog in December 2011.
Samyeer Metrani 