Tech Talk

Well, not anything very tough to do. In order to quicky refresh my python skill set, I decided to rewrite the C code that I had written a couple of days back in python. Works like charm.

I ve always liked python just for this ease of writing code. I spent quite some time with C to do this. I am happy about the C version, because I wrote my own pointers to do some things. But I doubt how well my C code would scale?!?

The first version of the python code is posted at http://abishekgoda.pbwiki.com/My%20Code .

Ha, that sounds like some great business move. Anyways, I have finally decided to limit myself to just two places where I intend to post anything at all. As a first step I have imported all my livejournal entries to here. There weren’t many and I am not logging in there either! I am considering importing my posts from my robotix blog at blogger to here as well. I will wait a couple of months to see if they enable import from beta blogger. Of course google gives me other ways to do this. I will probably update the more technical details in wordpress. I kinda like the interface.

For quite sometime now, I was wondering what I should be putting up here! I ve been getting crazy ideas of posts and one of them you saw here earlier. But, last week, I was getting back to my electronics text books trying to get back to electronics days of college. I am getting back to college shortly!

This thought has given me some stuff to fill this journal! No, no ramblings about college. I think I ll post all those things I am learning now, that I ought to have learnt in undergrad college. Yes, and it is a shameful lot of electronics!

I ll try to make this a series. So If you want to follow or comment, you may gladly do so. I am by no means an authority in this subject! I am merely posting what I am learning. And if you find it stupid or incorrect, take the time to inform me!

I am using these books first

Integrated Electronics – Jacob Millman & Christos Halkias

and Electonic Circuits – Donald L.Schilling and Charles Belove. Well, I do not know if these are the best, but, these are what I have now!

Hey People,

I do not know if you are into podcasting at all, but more recently after I got my video iPod, I ve become some fan of the whole idea. I set out searching for some interesting stuff on robotics, when I landed here. I ve got all three episodes on my pod and I would suggest you try this too. I am just beginning to listen them. But I am just not going to review anything. The idea is blessed and it should help a lot of enthusiasts. So, no reviews to bias them!

I got another link from a google group on Robotics that I had recently subscribed to recieve some mail. It is here. Maybe you already know about it!

That was a long time since I posted something on this page. But there have been other ideas that I was continuously dreaming about like robotic arm et al that I got down reading some literature that I cannot really post anything about!!!! Anyways, I think I ll be getting back to this page more often from now on. So, gear up and be ready for some good stuff..

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After a year, I will be back with my solder iron. I am planning to test and find out the power and torque ratings of the stepper motors that I have. I have managed a good driver circuit form the net. I ll see if it can help move about 2-3 kgs with two motors. I should check out on Servos also. I will push that for the next weekend because, I ll first need to hunt for some cheap servo motor stuff. I am planning to implement a ATMEL microcontroller based circuit to start with. That way I will get some time to choose a decent PC or tablet like mobilis. Heard about PC 104? I did very recently. Wonder what they cost like.

I hope to be posting my experiment results here real soon.

Last post on New Age Ideas is now kinda making me feel dumb. How could I have forgotten Bluetooth and think of WLan?? I have also managed a bunch of developerWorks links for some high level design ideas. You can find some of them in the robotics tag here.