Murli's Blog

  • Teardown of a 13 year old canon digital camera.

    canon camera teardown, a set on Flickr. A couple weeks ago, at work I found a digital camera that was thrown away in the recycle bin, it had a broken LCD and everything else seems to be in good shape. It was a 2.1 Megapixel Shooter so i figured it must really old. On googling…

  • Restoring the Windows Boot Partition…..

    I have a Dual Boot boot system Running Ubuntu 12.04(LTS) and Windows & Home Premium(x64). The other day i was booted into ubuntu and had to use gparted to partition and format a flash drive to use with my Pogoplug-B01. And i by-mistake formatted the windows boot partition . Oops. I restarted my system and…

  • Playing with the UART on the TI Stellaris Launchpad.

    I just started playing around with the TI Stellaris Launchpad a couple of days ago. The Launchpad is a pretty powerful little dev board. It has  ARM Cortex-M4F core at it heart. The really awesome thing is that there’s a Full fledged  debugger built-in which makes it a really good board to start with ARM…

  • Maker Faire 2013

    Maker Faire 2013, a set on Flickr. The Bay Area Maker Faire 2013 Day 1

  • Philips SHH7810 In-ear headset for Mobile Phone review

    A couple of days ago i received in my order of Philips SHH7810 in-ear headset from Flipkart.com. They delivered it in like 2 days as promised. I love their service and sometimes the price is also very reasonable as compare to brick-and-mortar stores,which was true in this case.I got it for 985 INR,which i think…

  • Motorola Atrix2 reviewed

    Motorola launched the atrix 2 in india late last month. Almost six months after they launched it in the US. It seemed like a good vfm phone given the market price of around 22,000 INR and the many positive reviews all around the internet made it seem like an awesome buy!!! So i thought i…

  • Dangerous Prototypes Bus Blaster Build

    I had Received a free Coupon from Dangerous Prototypes as a part of their Free PCBs Contest.I chose to get the Bus Blaster PCB. Since i was really needed a JTAG debugger my lpc1768 blueboard. Just Completed the Build. Check it out! Soldered the FT2232 using the drag soldering method.Had to remove some stubborn solder…

  • Originally posted on JustChecking's Weblog On All: This is a follow-up to previous tutorial, Simple guide to basic Doxygen usage. Here are few simple templates that you might use for documenting your source; easiest use is with e.g. Visual Assist X, or any other tool that allows you to add predefined templates to your…

  • Bluetooth Controlled RGB LED strip

    RGB LED strips such as this are available for a low price.They are generally bundled with a IR controller and a power supply to power the LEDs and to change the color ,display various colour sequences etc.The IR Receiver is  similiar to those used in TV and requires line-of-sight for reliable operation . I wanted…

  • Adding Bluetooth To your Microcontroller projects

    Bluetooth has become Ubiqutios these days Bluetooth Wireless technology is present is Most mobile phones today as well as in laptops and in desktop PCs.And If your PC or laptop doesn’t have it then you can get a Bluetooth USB dongle for cheap(like 2-3$ )! Wouldn’t it be interesting if your mobile phones /PCs could…