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 moreIndia Internet of Things Week 2015 by UNICOM
Three weeks back, I received a message from my mentor, Mr. Pranav Pai Vernekar (Founder of Inventrom) saying that he would be going to a conference in Bangalore. The conference was being organized by UNICOM. The theme was: ‘Internet of Things: Link Your World’ and it was part of India
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
Read moreMouse controlled Sign Board using Raspberry Pi & Topping Pi
This is a mouse controlled signboard made using Raspberry Pi (the world’s smallest computer) and a new circuit board called Topping Pi (designed and manufactured by Inventrom Robotics, Goa). The program was written in Scratch GPIO 5. A simple programming language, yet amazing in capabilities! Click on the picture to see
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