I was at NIT (REC) Calicut the last few days to conduct a workshop (FOSS@School) for high school students (and a few teachers) as part of the FOSS Meet.
The idea was to show some fun stuff to the kids and get them interested in computing and technology in general. It was also a chance […]
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 was creating some LaTeX Beamer slides for a presentation on FreeBird when Mobin and his Google SoC friends came with a box:
What’s inside the magic box? The world’s first freed phone, yes, an OpenMoko based Neo 1973!!
The world’s first “freed” phone, and the first phone whose developers encourage you to take it apart […]
Visit the Bird’s Home!
See the
bird in action! (Google video)
The board is running on a single 9V `Energizer’ (similar to Duracell) battery. It works even when the voltage drops to about 7.7V! Some u-boot environment variables have been set so as to make it boot from the SD card and run an init script […]
Software Freedom Day celebrations in Thrissur began with a meeting of Free Software Enthusiasts at the Chamber of Commerce. Before I write more about today’s events, let me share with you a great document written by Dr.Sasi Kumar:
Story of Free Software in Kerala
To add a bit more history to Dr.Sasi Kumar’s story - Prof. […]
Tags: Favourite · Free Software · Kerala
That’s what Kishore has to say.
If I were to write something about this topic, I will go totally out of control, so I won’t attempt it.
I still remember furiously attacking the author of a Hindi story by scribbling along the length and breadth of my textbook - I don’t remember why - maybe because […]
The last few days have been exhausting, and expensive! Almost all the systems in my lab went down with some problem or other - be it related to RAM, hard disk or motherboard. Things came to a head when my good old server, `bhim’, went down with a corrupted hard disk. I was forced […]
Tags: Copyright · Documentary Films · Favourite
Prof. Uday khedkar demonstrated how to add a data flow analysis pass to GCC. After some theoretical discussion on available expression analysis (which was, for a change, not too difficult to understand), he explained the actual implementation details which seemed to me to be a bit tricky (well, everyone seems to […]
The US patent office has granted me patent no: 776865656C for what I describe to be:
A sophisticated mechanism to reduce frictional loss in man-made moving objects by converting applied force to angular momentum.
I expect to get handsome royalties from this patent, enough to let me spend the rest of my life in the pursuit […]
Tags: Favourite · Microsoft · Patents
Even though USB has become wildly popular, there are not too many resources on the web which gives you a tutorial introduction on how to go about developing USB peripherals and controlling them with GNU/Linux. Anish and myself have started work on creating a simple USB gadget - we intend to document the process […]
Tags: Favourite · Microchip PIC · USB Interfacing