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A dream come true for UAV enthusiasts - AKM & Microchip Technology 10-Axis Sensor Development

AKM & Microchip Technology 10-Axis Sensor Development module comes along with a GPS chip. Check out the cool demo from ESC Silicon Valley 2010.

Tweet impact ?

I had posted this picture of a pothole on Airport road on the 24th on Twitter via Twitpic and today I saw that the pothole had been fixed. 

The fix was maybe  a co-incidence or really  a tweet impact ! he he ...

Paws tag

I bought made-to-order military identification tag (or dog tag) for Paws from an on-line store called Olive Planet. The one I bought looks exactly like this

Of-course the numbers are not smudged on  the real one :)

Microchip @ ESC Bangalore

Microchip is going to be there at ESC Bangalore, this year too !

All embedded enthusiast/professionals  can look forward for the following classes:

• Digital Power Conversion for Renewable Energy(Grid Connect PV Micro inverter)
• Embedded Connectivity (USB)
• Getting to Know the Enhanced Mid-Range PIC® MCU Family Using the HI-TECH C® PRO 

For more information on class listings click here.

NetBeans supports PHP in v6.9

More info: http://netbeans.org/features/php/index.html

Time lapse of evening sky in Bangalore

I wanted to do this from a long time. I found some time today and had enough enthusiasm to crudely fix my cell phone over a telescope tripod.

This 22 sec video consists of over 200 images shot at a regular interval of 30s and played back at 10fps.

Mithwa from KANK on keyboard

Beautiful song from a bad movie!

Playful Paws

This is Paws at five and half months. Though he looks big, he is still a puppy and always wants to play. Whenever he wants to play, he just grabs whatever is around, like a piece of cardboard in this video, and expects me to pull it while he holds it in his mouth.

My keyboard skill seems to be improving !

Twitter Bot using Microchip PIC32 Ethernet Starter Kit ?

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Bangalore getting 3G on 20th Feb?

Today I got a message on my Airtel (ironically) postpaid number which indicated that BSNL is going to launch 3G on 20th of this month. The message read:

"BSNL Launching 3G !!! Video Call, Mobile TV, Speed Upto 7.2 Mbps @ Re 1 PM, For details call 9400024365. Available at Ur Nearest Retailer/CSC after 20th Feb"

By calling the number mentioned above (from a BSNL number) you can get the details of 3G tariff. I was able to call the number as I got a BSNL prepaid sim only yesterday, lucky me :) Existing 2G customers have to pay Rs. 120 to migrate to 3G plan and will be getting 3 month validity with some amount of talk time. I forgot the charges for voice and video calls but they were pretty reasonable. Data transfer would be charged at 1p/10KB (almost unbievable).

I am not sure what Re 1 PM in the message meant. It is either Re 1 per minute or per month (both would be insane). In any case if its coming on 20th I am getting it on 20th.

My first twitter bot !

Ever since I got on to twitter, I wanted to create a bot of my own. I have created a weather bot for Bangalore. All you got to do is follow @BloreFeelsLike on twitter and you will get current weather conditions and forecasts for the next two days at a maximum rate of 1 tweet for every 3 hours.

Currently the weather data is got from RSS feed of Yahoo! Weather for Bangalore.

Follow me on twitter @S1024B