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
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About thirty or so kids attended a summer camp organized by the Swathanthra Software User’s Group, Malappuram.
The camp was at the `Tharakan School’ at Angadippuram, a 100 year old aided school. Students were taught
basic electronics, computer interfacing using Phoenix and elementary Python programming by a group of
“GNU” volunteers for three days starting from […]
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I will be at Tharakan High School, Angadipuram from 29 April to 1 May - the idea is to get together with school kids and show them how exciting science and technology is. Students will be exposed to the basics of electronics, computer programming and robotics through the medium of GNU/Linux and […]
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The past one or two days have been spent doing some experiments with the Phoenix box and getting the Phoenix Wiki up and running with some useful content. Check out:
http://electronics.wikia.com/wiki/PHOENIX
I am once again writing Python/Tkinter code! Check out the DTMF plugin mentioned on the Wiki.
We are trying to organize some kind of summer workshop […]
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Reached UC College, Aluva at 9:00 in the morning to attend FOSS In Science, 2007, perhaps the first conference in India dedicated to the use of Free Software in Scientific research and education.
This was the last day of the conference and the first talk/demo was by Ajith - the Phoenix Project has progressed a […]
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RMS looks on with interest as Ajith demonstrates his Phoenix-M box …
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After a long time, I have started doing something with Phoenix-M once again!
The humble LED can act as a photo sensor also - read this technical report to learn more.
It took just a few lines of C/Python code to get the light intensity measurement idea into Phoenix!
There are many cool things which you can […]
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It feels good to be back home!
The Phoenix workshop concluded today. Most of the teachers seem to have got an idea of the concepts involved - it remains to be seen how many of them would pass over this knowledge to their students.
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There will be a few minor changes in the front panel layout …
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Went to the Delhi Electronics market yesterday to get some components for the Phoenix-M box; I have decided to have a go at building and marketing a few of them on a commercial basis. The electronics market is huge, and running around here and there looking for stuff can be tiring. By the time […]
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