Archive for the ‘Electronics’ Category

The Art Of electronics – A Review!

I had ordered this book online Last week and it arrived in the mail a couple of day ago. The Book is the Art of Electronics By Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill.Here Is my review of the Book. The First Chapter Is Super Awesome and must read for every Electronics Enthusiast, Maker and hacker!. It’s [...]

Chumby TV : Open to Hack

Today in search of Wifi modules, We thought that Chumby TV has a wifi module in it too, and most important thing was we have a chumby TV in our vicinity. So tried and successfully opened it , now sharing basic images of it while opening so that if any body who wants to hack [...]

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Quick Hacks : A DIY SMD to DIP adapter in five minutes!

Got an SMD IC that you want to breadboard for that quick prototype??? Dont have a Breakout board at hand?? Why not make one for yourself from easily available components?   Stuff You’ll need. 1. Small peice of Perfbooard ,Cut it to the desired size 2.Berg strip. 3. A Finetip soldering iron. 4. Some Flux [...]

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Introduction to AVR programming

Introduction to AVR programming by Farasbee   AVRs are interesting devices to work with and are pretty powerful devices and offer good value. And they have a Lot of interesting features built-in like  timers, Adc,EEPROM etc. and utilising the Full potential of AVR devices can be easily done using the Free and Open-source avr-gcc  based [...]

How to make a small case for your projects

How to make a small case for your projects by Farasbee   It’s great case for small projects, or to keep your stuff in good order. You can make in it a small circuit board or something. it’s the final result Step 1: What you must to have. You must have: -Cable holder/organiser -Glue gun [...]

LE CHAL : a haptic shoe for blind to help them navigate & walk

LE CHAL : a haptic shoe for blind to help them navigate & walk by Farasbee The blind and visually impaired do have one huge disadvantage – they are unable to see just where they are going without help from a walking cane. Within just the past few years, scientists have developed an impressive number of [...]

Is this the Worlds Fastest Processor Chip??

Is this the Worlds Fastest Processor Chip?? by Farasbee IBM researchers have built a prototype optical chip that can transfer a terabit of data per second, using an innovative design requiring 48 tiny holes drilled into a standard CMOS chip, facilitating the movement of light. Much faster and more power-efficient than today’s optics, the so-called [...]

Autonomous Flying robots!

Autonomous Agile Cooperative Flying robots! by Farasbee   Heres a Cool video By Dr. Vijay Kumar of university of Penn. Discussing the developments they have made and their applications in the field of Autonomous flying robots!

DIY : clean Processor Thermal-Cooling Assembly of Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop

After facing overheat problem in Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop which I realized is due to dust deposition on its Processor’s Thermal-Cooling Assembly. So I cleaned it.   Following steps can be followed for DIY cleaning of  Processor’s Thermal-Cooling Assembly. Workspace should be clean and flat  to prevent the computer cover from being scratched. Switch OFF your [...]

Getting Started With Zigbee/Xbee

Getting started with Zigbee by Farasbee     ZigBee is a wireless communications protocol based on the 802.15.4 standard is designed for low speed communication between two or more devices, you can network with thousands of devices communicating with each other, making it ideal for many applications.   ZigBee is developed by the ZigBee Alliance , formed [...]