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Insignia 2006 began with a talk by Anivar on the philosophy of Free Software - the interesting fact about his talk is that most often, it examines Free Software and surrounding issues of
Intellectual Property, copying etc from a wider social angle. This time, he had a set of funny (and interesting) photographs poking fun […]

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It was Insignia day 2 today - and it was time for the hack-the-badge contest! I reached the CS department by 2:30 and
saw that there were only a few participants. I began by describing how the badge PCB was built using GNU/Linux tools. This was followed by a very brief introduction to the Attiny […]

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Started building my poor imitation of the Defcon badge today; I am using uisp with the simple direct parallel port access circuit.

I am going with the 8 pin ATTiny15L - don’t want to spend time soldering smd stuff. A 3V button cell is the power source. The tiny15 is much more capable than the […]

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I have been busy with classes for the past few days. I am also learning to do a bit of PCB design with GEDA - GNU EDA Tools. Doing schematic capture with Gscheme and PCB design with
PCB is not that hard - but there is an acute lack of documentation in this area.
I […]

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I was busy attending Insignia 2005 day before yesterday. First, the
bad news. Because of heavy rain in Chennai, Hiran and Shakthi couldn’t make it for the
event. Dinil was much more
adventurous - I shall not describe the tale of his amazing journey from Chennai to Trichur
in these pages lest I deprive him of his right […]

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I have not yet lost faith in students.
It’s hard to motivate them, but many of them *do* get motivated.
The 5′th semester CS students of GEC Thrissur seem to have been
energized by Insignia 2005. Many
of them are working hard to showcase the power of GNU/Linux and Free Software
through interesting projects and demos.
Anish has been struggling […]

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As mentioned previously in this Blog, the students of Govt. Engineering College, Trichur are conducting a two-day technical festival on GNU/Linux and Free Software
on Oct 28 and 29 - this is the time for all of us Free Software enthusiasts to do our bit to spread the light of Freedom all around us …. if […]

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The Govt. Engg College Trichur (GECT) students are conducting a GNU/Linux festival
called `Insignia’. Visit:
Insignia 2005 Home Page

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