Die Buchstaben ‘S’!

Just because I like to see the stats and usage of the blog, I have come across an interesting request that keeps repeating. People have been trying to translate the website into German. Yes, the title of the blog is what it would translate to in German. And no, I just copy pasted it from … Read more

Review: Philips SDC5100 Notebook Cushion with built in speaker

By Sami Mughal Philips have been very clever in putting a speaker inside a notebook cushion. Even better, they have actually done a good job at combining both those things. The SDC5100 functions as both, a very comfortable notebook cushion as well as a pretty decent speaker. The quality of the build is very good. … Read more

500 miles off a single tank of fuel (40 litres!)

So pleased am I at achieving this feat, that I am actually blogging it! I logged 500 miles to a single fuel tank yesterday, which is 40 litres of PETROL. And in case you are wondering, I drive a Hyundai i20. I do drive carefully, but I do not drive like an old lady!  

Significant day for science!

I said funny. I meant significant. Or could be significant. Who knows! But I changed the title anyway! But here are the three headlines that are rocking the scientific world right now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484 – Particles exceed speed of light. Most of you know already, but if you don’t, most of modern day physics is based … Read more

Get rid of all that change!

This one applies mostly to British people, but it may work in other countries as well. If you are like me, you most probably hate carrying the 5kg of change in copper we end up accumulating in our wallets/purses. You most probably also hate the self-checkouts at most of the leading stores these days. I … Read more

Solution for the rioters!

Well, I know everyone has their answers. Everybody has a solution. But I thought I’d throw in my 2p’s worth as well. I propose that everyone who has been caught doing the misdeeds be forced to go to college, and get some diploma. Give them a stipend based purely on the results, and make them … Read more

Arduino – Serial Communication

Amazon.co.uk Widgets The Arduino boards, and I believe this applies to all of them, even though I have used only two so far (the UNO and the MEGA), allow for Serial Communication. In the Arduino programming IDE, this is referred to as the Serial Monitor. Users often use this to ‘PRINT’ different values from the … Read more

Of Pakistan Cricket and News of the World

Fans of Pakistan Cricket, the followers, and the ‘crazies’ are familiar with the name ‘News of the World!’. Last summer, this newspaper revealed three Pakistani cricketers as being involved in the spot-fixing scandal, which eventually got them banned for different periods of time from cricket. There was a lot of ‘concern’ about whether the allegations … Read more

Arduino: Out of sync PWMs

Follow up to my last article, here is an application which helps run out of sync PWMs. This only works on Arduino Mega, as it requires more control over timers. The application would be anything that requires 2 sets of PWMs that work out of sync and in sync with each other. There are 3 … Read more