Shell Scripting to Display Bar Graphs in Linux Terminal
by This week was quite hectic for me with course assignments and their merciless deadlines. One such assignment in Advanced Computer Architecture was simulation of various benchmarks …
Author: Bharathi
Won 2nd place in National Level Electronics Design Contest !!!
Last month could have been never better without the “Electronics For you ” design contest‘s results announcement. I was delighted to find my name at …
Capacitive Touch Sensing using a Coin & ARM Cortex M4
Couple of years ago, I bought a Capsense add-on from Texas Instruments for MSP-430 Launchpad. It worked right out of the box as expected but …
Raspberry Pi based Monochrome Video Playback in Nokia 2760 caller ID LCD
Previously, I was successful in interfacing a Nokia caller ID LCD using MSP430 microcontroller. This time I wanted to drive it using the $35 single …
Virtual Gesture Input Device Hack using Wiimote
This projects aims at designing a low cost gesture based input device for computers using a Nintendo Wii Remote(Wiimote). This work is inspired by the …
Hacking Nokia 2760 caller ID LCD with MSP430
For quite a long time, I had my Mom’s Nokia 2760 lying idle. So, when I thought of putting it into a …
Gesture and Voice based computer control for differently abled
Many times, I had given a thought about the societal usefulness of my projects and seriously pondered upon an opportunity to implement one. The opportunity …
AVR based Motion Sensing USB Joystick
Here, an AVR microcontroller (Atmega-8) is used to design a bare minimum motion sensing joystick for controlling games in computer. Components Used: ATmega-8 Microcontroller 2-axis …
MSP 430 based Low Frequency Oscilloscope
A crucial equipment for any electronics enthusiast besides multimeter,soldering iron,etc is an Oscilloscope. Unfortunately these oscilloscopes come at a price which students or hobbyists …