I came across a cool kickstarter project called Circuit Scribe that allows you to draw electronic circuits with conductive ink on paper using a pen. This is really fascinating, because it allows you instantly prototype without using breadboard and it is also a very cool way to teach electronics to kids. Each pen costs around […]
After reading my recent tutorial on using Arduino code in non-Arduino microcontrollers, one of my readers asked me if it is possible to use Arduino as an ISP programmer to program these micro controllers, instead of using a separate dedicated AVR programmer. The answer is a definite yes and I use it all the time, […]
Recently in Maker Faire Rome, Arduino announced two new Linux based Arduino boards – Galileo in collaboration with Intel (Yes 😉 ) and Arduino TRE in collaboration with Texas Instruments (the company behind BeagleBoard). Together with Arduino Yun, now the total number of official Arduino Linux based boards is 2. Intel Galileo This board is […]
Today, I conducted a small hands-on workshop in Arduino at work. We had a bunch of Arduinos and kits available and everyone was able to try it out themselves. Slides I have uploaded the slides I used for my talk to my slideshare account. You can download the slides or view them below. You can […]
After several months of development, I am proud to announce v1.0.0 of Arduino Makefile. What is Arduino Makefile? It is a set of makefiles for Arduino, that allows you to compile and flash code into Arduinos and also communicate with it through Serial all using the makefile, without opening up the Arduino IDE. This is […]
The first question people ask me these days when I talk about either Raspberry Pi or Arduino is what is the difference between them. This was one of the prominent question that people asked me during my recent PyCon talk and Maker Party presentation. Even though both Raspberry Pi and Arduino are created to solve […]
Mozilla India is conducting a Maker Party today at Jaaga and I going to conducting a workshop there. Maker Party ‘Maker Party: Bangalore 2013’ is a Mozilla Hive India initiative in an attempt to map and empower a community of educators and creative people who share a passion to innovate, evolve and change the learning […]
Today, I gave a talk in PyCon India, 2013 about using Python to control the GPIO pins in Raspberry Pi. About PyCon India, 2013 PyCon is an annual conference that happens in India for the Python programming language. Following is the actual quote from PyCon website. PyCon India, the premier conference in India on using […]
Shift Registers are one of my favorite devices. It is really fascinating, when you understand how they work. Ever since I learned how Shift Registers work and how you should use them, I was planning to write an article explaining it. While browsing around, I found an excellent video by Kevin Darrah which explains how […]
I had a bunch of ATmega 16A and ATtiny 85 microcontrollers lying around and I was trying to find a way to program them using Arduino code. There are two main reasons, why I wanted to use Arduino code. The first reason was to use the many built-in functions like digitalWrite, digitalRead etc. And the […]
