Archive for the ‘Open Source’ 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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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 [...]

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How to Install Ubuntu

How to Install Ubuntu by Farasbee   We have discussed about Importance of Open Source technologies and Linux, In continuation of this Open Source series here farasbee Comes with another tutorial for newbies ” HOW TO INSTALL UBUNTU “.   Download Ubuntu’s latest version from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download   Now after downloading you have two options : either [...]

Control your mouse cursor using WIIMOTE

Since the Wii Remote uses bluetooth to communicate with the console, it’s relatively straightforward to use it to control a computer. The most obvious way is similar to the main menu on the Wii console – point the remote where you want the cursor to go, and press A and B to left and right [...]

34 reasons to support Open Source

34 reasons to support Open Source by Farasbee   Freedom matters! (freedom to create, share, invent, collaborate, learn and modify)     free of cost (not always but you always have choice) Lots of choice, not only what to use but also how to use it  No vendor lock in   FOSS encourages open standards [...]