This is one for those who like knitting, and those who like to be stay warm in the cold winter months. It being cold and with the holidays season running on a high, I came across Wool and the gang (http://www.woolandthegang.com), where you can buy needles, yarn, wool, knitting kits, and of course, they also … Read more
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Requirement: To communicate between two Arduino Mega boards, about 7 meters apart, sending 6 bytes of data, and receiving 2 bytes of data back from the other board, keeping the supplies and grounds for both the supplies separate. Procedure: The first thing to do was to establish an I2C between two Arduino boards. … Read more
British people care about the weather more than they care about anything else in the world. It is a stereotype, but it is not very far from the truth. Which is what makes www.uksnowmap.com such a success! It is a website that just scans Twitter, and based on what people are tweeting about the snow, … Read more
By Sami Mughal Now while today was the day CERN gave a much anticipated statement about their progress with the discovery of Higgs Boson, this video of two MIT dudes showing speed of light videoed excites me a lot more. Here are a couple of other links in case the video does not work: http://www.pcworld.com/article/246141/mits_light_speed_camera_snaps_a_trillion_frames_per_second.html … Read more
So yesterday, we were pretty sure Higgs Bosons exist. Now are almost pretty sure they exist. In terms of numbers… we were at 90% that they exist, now we have a 92%. While this may seem all a bit sarcastic, this is how physics moves forward, and the Higgs Boson still promises to be the … Read more
A German company called Cornelsen Verlag, who appear to be one of the major educational publishers in Germany, have just written to me. They are working in co-operation with a Russian publisher, producing a series of school books for Russian students, teaching them English as a foreign language. They want to use an excerpt from … Read more
Phase shifting is the process of shifting signals in TIME such that signals that would have been in sync originally, occur at a time / phase after the other. For example, they may be 180 degrees out of phase, which equates 50% delay in terms of PWM duty cycle, 90 degrees out of phase, which … Read more
This is for the ones who have a passion for the skies. Telescopes are an essential part of the kit one must possess to look up to the heavens. The main problem one has with buying a telescope is that there is such a wide variety of choice out there, and it is very hard … Read more
By Sami Mughal The new plethora of smart phones that are taking over our lives mostly boost a button-less interface. They often boast a touch screen keyboard, which depending on how fat-fingered you are, may or may not be functional for you. There are phones out there that have a keyboard packed into them, like … Read more
So a very familiar name pops up on email, asking me to add me as a contact on LinkedIn. I know the name, I definitely know the name. He seems to be working in my company, his job description saying roughly what I do at my work. And that is when I finally figured out … Read more