Ramblings …
Posted on October 14, 2013 by Dushyant in Electronics
The first thing that came to my mind when I started microcontroller programming was to set an automatic room heating cum humidifier system. First off – bought a DHT11 sensor module. Then went about setting up the circuit. Added the LCD to boot – to show the temperature and humidity. Set up the circuit as […]
Read MorePosted on October 14, 2013 by Dushyant in Electronics
Continuing my saga with electronics – went for an electronics workshop by Kits’n’Spares – the workshop was nothing to talk about – however did get me a Mango Pi – a development board for the PIC processors. Well surprise – surprise – doesn’t support Mac OS, at least I couldn’t get it to work. Finally gave […]
Read MorePosted on October 14, 2013 by Dushyant in Electronics
After the workshop, I plugged in my Indiuno with the LCD and within half an hour had the LCD working. Source: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/LiquidCrystal Photos: Next up was using the 7-segment display and the shift register. After a lot of googling and experimenting – finally managed to set it up so that it counts from 0 to 9. I […]
Read MorePosted on October 14, 2013 by Dushyant in Electronics
Have always been fascinated with electronics and computers – but never knew how to go about it. Finally got a chance to experiment – when Abhiram decided to hold a small electronics workshop. Well – got up early (comparatively) on a Saturday and went to see what could happen. The workshop was great – Abhiram […]
Read MorePosted on July 20, 2013 by Dushyant in Personal
A couple of months back, I had “cleaned” my macbook with Colin and ended up destroying my keyboard 🙁 Also, my extended warranty had expired just a few days back; so when I went to the Apple support centre – they gave me an estimate of ~15,000 INR. Considering that the macbook is >3 years […]
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