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 [...]
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Quick Hacks : A DIY SMD to DIP adapter in five minutes!
March 19th, 2012 
admin 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 [...]
Introduction to AVR programming
March 17th, 2012 admin 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 [...]
Posted in basics, Electronics, Open Source, tinker 
Tags: atmega32, avr, avrgcc, winavr 
No Comments »Getting Started With Zigbee/Xbee
March 9th, 2012 admin 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 [...]
Posted in basics, Electronics, Inventions, tinker Tags: Arduino Xbee, Arduino Zigbee, Xbee, Zigbee, zigbee wireless No Comments »What is Electonics for n00bs (part-3 : Electronic Circuits Basics)
March 7th, 2012 admin Continuing from the yesterday’s blog Lets start with Diodes Today Diode’s task is really simple : to conduct current when in forward biased & to block current when reverse biased . Many circuits, obviously, require a diode that can turn ON and catch, or clamp, a voltage moving much faster than 20 V/ms. Therefore, if [...]
Posted in basics, Electronics Tags: capacitor, circuits, current, diode, electronic circuits, Electronics, farasbee, LED, multimeter, resistor, semiconductor, transistor, voltage No Comments »What is Electronics for n00bs
March 5th, 2012 admin What is Electronics for n00bs by Farasbee When a new guy “n00bs” to Electronics thinks about it , it seems like this image courtesy http://xkcd.com/730 All in all , its complete chaos. We are here explaining and discussing about some basics of Electronics which will be beneficial for newbies. Electrons are one of [...]
Posted in basics, Electronics Tags: capacitor, datasheets, diode, Electronics, newbie, noobs, resistor, semiconductor 1 Comment »
