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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 could not boot into windows! For me Windows is like a necessary Evil . Its where all my games reside! All for the other programming related stuff i use ubuntu. So i needed to get the windows partition up and running. ...

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 micros. I was fiddling with the UART trying to setup two way communication with the micro. so i started out with the uart_echo project included in the Stellarisware bundle. ...

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

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 should check it out.I ordered it,from probably india’s answer to amazon flipkart. it arrived 3 days post order. Packed snuggly in couple of layers of bubble wrap which i enjoyed popping! :P. ...

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 the strip to be Controllable via a PC or a Mobile Phone.So I decided to make my own RGB LED strip Controller and to enable wireless control i used Bluetooth technology.The device can be controlled using a PC or a mobile phone with Bluetooth having a suitable graphical user interface. ...

Just a Simple code snippet that allows you to send a byte over a 8-bit wide parallel bus when using 32 bit devices such as those based on the ARM architecture. While programming AVRs this usually would suffice to send a BYTE over a parallel 8-bit wide port.Here’s an avr-gcc example PORTC = data; But with the a 32-bit microcontroller For example the LPC1768 from NXP. Each port is 32 bits wide and in order to send a byte over an 8-bit section of the 32 bit wide ports ...

Recently the indian rupee joined the elite league of currencies that have their own unique symbol. The symbol is a combination of the devanagri ‘ra’ and also symbolises the roman letter R. the two stokes signifies the tricolour and the progress of the nation. here’s how u can use it in your emails and word documents. Given below are the steps to use the new Indian Rupee Symbol as a Font in your word applications: ...

Happy diwali to all!!! Last week i was alone at home since my parents had gone out to attend a marriage in mangalore.I was alone at home for about 10 days and had no college since there was our college ‘techfest’.i dont like attending ‘techfests’ on a shoestring budget,like the one in our college!!.there only a few things which fit into my definition of tech there! So I was alone & bored and to get rid of my boredom and loneliness i wanted to do some fun project.i had a few hundred bucks with me,and i had an old luminaire (called jhoomer in hindi)-it had those bayonet mounted so called ‘zero watt’ incandescent bulbs. I consider incandescents a thing of the past as they are very inefficient and are energy guzzlers-they waste a lot of energy as heat.Infact they generate much more heat than they produce light!!!So i thought that replacing the incandescents with power LEDs which consume lower power and produce much more light.Also the light is much more soothing to the eye. ...

I have a nokia n78.I often use the gps onboard to find my way through the urban jungle of mumbai.The gps is surely a very useful tool for navigation but it tends to suck the battery juice pretty quickly. My phone can give only about 3-4 hrs of continous gps use on a full recharge.I’m a urban explorer kind of a guy so i like getting lost and found in the concrete jungle but that sometimes takes a lot of time.so much time that my battery runs out before my adventure is over!!. and so i decided to make myself a portable mobile charger. ...