One morning I didn’t remember to water the peace lilies outside my window. By evening they had keeled over and looked terribly dehydrated… to say the least. Since there happened to be an unconnected solenoid valve connected to the pipeline anyway, it was the perfect opportunity to throw in a
Read moreRexplorer v1 – A robot programmed in Scratch GPIO
For the first time, I’ve built a fully functional robot with my trusty Raspberry Pi 2. My last attempt at connecting a motor driver to a Pi resulted in a burnt pi; but that was because I connected its 5v output to the driver’s 5v output pin (recipe for disaster). Rexplorer is
Read moreProject GEIT
During the last week of my Diwali vacations, I had the wonderful opportunity to be part of Project GEIT (Goans Empowered with Information Technology) and teach Scratch programming as a volunteer instructor to students at 3 village schools. The project was divided into 10-day camps conducted at the following schools: Azmane High
Read moreInternet Of Things with Raspberry Pi – 2
This is a follow-up to my previous tutorial Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi – 1. (If you’re not familiar with web servers, PHP coding and the basic concepts of IOT, you should probably go through part 1 first.) In the previous tutorial, we set up an Apache 2 web server
Read moreInternet Of Things with Raspberry Pi – 1
When I was new to IOT (Internet Of Things), I saw that there were hardly any tutorials which were simple enough for a beginner to understand and try out. There was either to much technical jargon, or the hardware was too complex. So now that I’ve played around with IOT a bit, I decided to make a
Read moreSummer Internship 2015 – Inventrom
Once again, this summer, I interned for a month at Inventrom Robotics, an electronic technology start-up based in Goa with primary focus on Robotics and Wireless devices. I joined at a time when their IOT (Internet Of Things) product ‘Netplug‘ was in the R&D phase. Netplug is a single unit which can
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