Most of the home brewers and electronics hobbyist see fabricating a PCB as a roadblock . I will describe an alternate approach to circuit construction where you need only bare copper clad sheet. This method is some times called Manhattan method.( I don’t know the reason.) The basic ingredients you need for this type of… Continue reading Manhattan Style construction for Hobbyists
A USB boot disk is a cool idea. It allows you to carry your favorite operating system in your pocket. Since all modern PC provide USB boot from BIOS , you can use any computer and work on your on desktop. It is also possible to make data persistent. With ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope it… Continue reading How to make a USB install/boot disk with Ubuntu 9.04
My summer vacation has just started and I am trying my hands on several things.. This morning while searching for some components in my junk box, some old audio cassettes came out. In fact, I had a collection of around 200 rare cassettes in the 90s. Most of them are useless now. One of the… Continue reading Mohanam and Bhoopali
The bitx, I built using the ugly construction method was too ugly to look at. The board was rebuilt using Manhattan style construction last week end . Now the board looks tidy and neat. The added advantage is that I can plug and play with any section. Individual sections are built on smaller PCBs and… Continue reading Bitx 20 update: The band pass filter.
As a part of laboratory experiments for an embedded system course being held at Model finishing School Trivandrum, 2 nos . of mini2440 arm development kits have been purchased by the them from e bay . One of the kits is presently with me . My task is to learn it and teach embedded Linux… Continue reading Exploring the Mini2440 Arm kit