I was following news about Maker Faire in Twitter today and was quite surprised when I came to know that Massimo Banzi co-founder of Arduino, announced Arduino Yún, a new product that combines Arduino and Linux. Specification I was quite excited and quickly checked the specs. It is a combination of Arduino Leonardo (based on [...]
When I wrote about choosing the correct display cable for Raspberry Pi, I mentioned that you might face problems with getting audio, when you use a cheap HDMI to VGA converter, that doesn’t support audio. Problem I use this cheap HDMI to VGA converter which I bought from Amazon, which doesn’t support audio. I thought [...]
When I wrote about choosing the correct accessory for Raspberry Pi, I mentioned that choosing the display cable could get a little tricky. There are a lot of things to keep in mind and so I thought of writing a separate guide for choosing the correct display cable. The following are the different scenario’s which [...]
Ever since I bought my Raspberry Pi, people reached out to me asking what are the accessories that I am using with it. It took me a bit of research to find out the best accessories needed for Raspberry Pi and I thought of documenting it so that it is useful for others as well. [...]
Once of the important things to do when you play around with electronics is to make sure that you are safe-guarding your electronic components from over current. The most common way to do that is by adding a resistor in series. You can calculate the value of the resistor needed for safe operation by using [...]
Finally, after waiting for more than six months I got my on hands on a Raspberry Pi (in fact 4 of them ) Ever since I heard about Raspberry Pi, I wanted to try one, especially to compare it with an Arduino and finally the day has arrived Buying Raspberry Pi in India It was [...]
The dates for my second batch of Arduino Robotics workshop is confirmed now. It is going to be on Jan 26th and 27th. It is going to be a 2 full day workshop, like last time and I will also be providing the components needed for the workshop. You can find the course content, fees [...]
I recently found an interesting use of the many Arduino boards that I have. You can use your Arduino board as a bridge to connect serial devices to the computer, without even writing a sketch. How cool is that? Before I tell you how you can do it, let me explain about virtual COM ports [...]
TI’s Stellaris LaunchPad board, which I reviewed recently comes with an out of the box demo program called qs-rgb. This program allows you to test the LaunchPad board and also try out some of the features of the LM4F120 MCU that is present in the board. Getting the program into the board When you buy [...]
I finally received the Stellaris LMF120 LaunchPad from TI, which I ordered in September. I haven’t started playing with it yet, but thought of posting about my thoughts of the board after having the first look. Contents of the kit As promised by TI, I had the following components in the kit The launchpad board [...]