Suzuki DR650 adventure build
Recently in 2023, I got a 2003 Suzuki DR650 as a Christmas gift for myself. The bike had approximately 5000 miles and looked decent for a 20 year old bike. The seller asked $3000 for it. Knowing that the bike being a Japanese will outlast other bikes by a long time, I bought the bike […]
8KW Enduro E-Bike build
Building an E-bike for long distance commute has been on my mind for sometime. But the rising gas prices was the last push I needed to jump into this project. After months of planning and waiting for components from China, I finally started building. Requirements I wanted an E-bike with at least 100 miles of […]
Roof Top Tent Build
Getting a roof top tent for my Subaru Forester was my long time plan. Unfortunately commercial hard shell roof top tents were costing upwards of $2000 and I could not justify the cost for a tent. So I armed myself with some wood working power tools, sewing machine and fabrics and set on to build […]
Custom Winch bumper for 09-13 Subaru Forester
Since 2018 when I bought my 2010 Forester, I have been modifying it into a capable offroad vehicle. Upgrades include the following: Thule roof mount Aero crossbars 2″ ADF lift Method MR502 racing wheels BFG KO2 All-Terrain Tires Rallitek 0.25″ Springs Roof Top Tent Slotted Disc brake Rotors Torq Locker’s Rear DIFF Locker All LED […]
Sipeed Maix Bit, a 64-bit dual core RISC-V AI development board
Sipeed MAIX is one of the cheapest RISC-V development boards in the world. It is a dual-core module capable of running at 400MHz (can be overclocked to 800MHz) and has Neural Network Accelerators topping at 0.5 TOPS with Tensorflow Lite support. Unable to resist, I backed the Indiegogo campaign and received the boards couple of weeks ago. […]
Building a 49cc Street Legal Motorized Bicycle
Hello everyone! When I moved to Oregon for my work, I started looking at cheaper modes of transport to work. The transit and MAX worked for sometime but the bus stops and stations are simply too far from my home and I found myself spending at least 30 minutes everyday for a 3 mile commute […]
Programming STM32 ARM microcontrollers in Arch Linux
Once upon a time, not so long ago, the 8-bit microcontrollers were ruling the hobbyist embedded world. But today, the 32-bit ARM Cortex Microcontrollers are so inexpensive and power efficient that there is no good reason to ignore them. Here, let us see how to program a STM32 ARM cortex Microcontroller in Linux environment. The […]
ESP8266 – WiFi + Speech Controlled Hexapod Robot
WiFi modules for projects were out of reach for lot of budget hobbyists like me for many years. But things changed when the Esp8266 module from Espressif Systems was released in 2014. Maker community went crazy over this module for the price tag (around $2 for the basic module) and within few months, toolchains, arduino […]
My badge Hack at Hackaday Superconference 2015
November was a good time for many hackers and makers around and outside California who got to attend the Hackaday’s Superconference 2015. Power-packed with technical workshops, project presentations and badge hacking , this Superconference was one of the best platforms for the best minds around the world. It was my first hardware conference in […]
Arietta G25 – an Atmel ARM9 board
While I own a Raspberry Pi already, I was looking for a bare minimum ARM development board capable of running Linux and offers a good amount of I/O peripherals which the R-Pi lacks. I finally stumbled upon Arietta G25, a really tiny ARM board from acmesystems. This teeny tiny board costed just $35 from microcontrollershop.com. […]