This post is for my students at college of engineering Attingal . We are going to get vacation during May and June. I think your semester examination will be over by April end. I have a small project which some of you can take up during this summer vacation. The project is related to amateur… Continue reading Summer Projects for students
I have been trying to develop a general purpose prototyping board for the Microchip PIC 16F877A . My aim is to build a board with the following features a) All ports and other on board devices must be easily taken out to a solderless bread board. b) In circuit serial programming. c) boot loader. d)… Continue reading Building a PIC 16F877 prototyping board-Part1 Programmer
I have seen several tutorials on the Internet for making professional looking PCBs at home. In fact, I attempted making a few last year with limited success. However, I managed to perfect the technique yesterday. The procedure I used is described in this tutorial. I made some minor changes to materials and made a few… Continue reading Building Printed Circuit Boards at home
I will describe my experiences in receiving long distance FM here. For receiving long distance FM (or FM Dxing) the first thing you need is a good radio. Good receivers are hard to find nowadays. If you can find a Phillips of Sony radio you are half way through. (I think Phillips no longer markets… Continue reading The art of Long Distance FM DXing
Kenney Jacob has written an article on academic projects here. Most of his observations are true. Being a faculty member, I have seen this kind of activities in several institutions around Trivandrum. Just take a look at the local classifieds section of The Hindhu. You will see several ads promising students with things like real… Continue reading Academic Projects