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 […]
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. […]
The price of embedded hardware development boards has been dropping. What used to be $4000 boards have been steadily coming down over the past few years. Today you can get a beaglebone for $45. Sure I like low cost hardware, but I kind of feel that has the possibility of reducing innovation, instead of increasing […]
I write this after I came back from a session on why cant we build modular cars…every once in a while I get to hear a speaker who not only has a far out concept but has done his homework. The session started simple, with some questions on if we came across a 50 year […]
You must have heard the old adage… “A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure!” I grew up in a time of wind-up watches, every night at we would wait for the 8:00pm news to set our watches. Every watch had some sort of […]
Over the past three years I have been seeing the systematic disruption that the iPhone/iPad and the related Android devices have done to the devices market. Wherever there was a screen people are increasingly using the iPhone/iPad/Android device. Today I got into a discussion about this with somebody that I met and I think he […]
I am beginning to realize that civilian life is becoming the new war-zone. Yes there are war’s being fought all over the world as we speak/sleep but the number of people killed as a result of war is paltry compared to the number of people killed in peace. The soldiers of this new war are […]
Had an exciting day at the FLL Regional competition yesterday. I coach a team of 11-14 year olds who call themselves the Krazzy Martians. The objective of FLL is to get children interested in science under the guise of a robotics competition. All teams are given a series of tasks, and they have two and […]
I write this note as I am reading “Object oriented analysis and design with applications” written by Booch, Jacobson and Rumbaugh. I took the time out to write this note because of the cynicism that hit me approximately page 224. I have been looking for an easy way to define a system. I have believed […]
One of my previous posts was about the GPS and how there are multiple ways for to figure out where you are. This one is about accelerometers. For a detailed description look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerometer. This one is a short look at it. I wont go into theory. An accelerometer measures acceleration. There are really three […]
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