Expensive experimental apparatus can be made available to a wider audience through the web - I have heard of a few foreign universities and research centres doing this. Maybe, it’s for the first time that somebody is doing this in India - check out what Ajith has done at:
Phoenix Online
Be sure to enter your […]
Tags: Phoenix
Got a set of PCB’s (designed using gEDA tools) today - this is my second attempt at using gEDA tools (after the AVR Badge experiment).
The board will carry a MAX232 to perform TTL<->RS232 level shifting.
The design files will be made available soon …
Lots of students are starting blogs these days - check out this […]
Tags: gEDA Tools
Work on FreeBird has been stalled for some time - I am attending to a few other important personal matters - and, I will not be able to participate in FOSS.IN.
FreeBird is creating a few spin-off’s. The FreeBird-Mini will be a cheaper version based on Atmega processors. I am designing a small single-side PCB […]
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Linuxdevices.com presents a list of cool GNU/Linux powered devices which you can gift to your gadget-geek friend!
OpenMoko, Chumby and OLPC are there on the list!
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“The GnuVision Blog” is `officially’ up and running!!
My home page, pramode.net will now be the unified blog-plus-home-page. The contents of the `old’ pramode.net is available under the `Articles’ and `About’ section. The LiveJournal site http://pramode-ce.livejournal.com will no longer be updated.
The “Gnuvision Blog” runs on Wordpress - the theme is `Cutline’ which I first saw […]
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Check out Endangered Species - the chemistry set
Read the comments, they are interesting!
Are such chemistry kits available in India? I don’t think so. I used to play with chemicals a lot - with material sourced from the medical store and from a chemicals dealer nearby who was unwilling to believe that my requirements […]
I have decided to `unify’ my static home page with my blog - it will take some time, as I have to import entries from LiveJournal to Wordpress and iron out minor formatting issues. Reading PHP/HTML code is boring and an absolute waste of time - but I am beginning to appreciate web applications a […]
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The FreeBird gets a new Home!
The Bird can now sing in Lua. Because I don’t have shared libs enabled for the avr32, I had to plug the functions statically into the interpreter core. With Lua, this is so sweet and simple!
By the way, what is this GnuVision?
A New Vision, for a New Age!
More to […]
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It seems bizarre that we should be able to achieve universal computation with a machine as simple as the one above–that we can find just by doing a little searching in the space of possible machines.
But that’s the new intuition that we get from NKS. That in the computational universe, phenomena like universality are […]
Tags: CS Theory
Check out this Slashdot report:
Brazilian pop music scene thrives on piracy
Here is the direct link
Critics would say that this is just a tiny little isolated phenomenon.
Mostly because they *want* this to remain a tiny little isolated phenomenon and are afraid of losing the comforts of Holly/Bolly … whatever `wood’ … comforts obtained by labeling […]