My first obstacle avoiding bot based on the tutorial by Community of robots. This is my first one and helped me learn a bit about sensors, feedback and servo operations. One difference in mine is the use of IR proximity sensor which I had lying around instead of the Sharp distance sensor. This one does not measure...
I was fascinated by LASERs when I first went to IIT Kanpur during my school days. Since then I have been reading / playing a lot with LASERs. My first one was a LASER trip wire and then a LASER pattern generator. It all was around 10 years back. Having recently acquired an Arduino UNO a plethora of options have opened up. I have started to learn from the beginning and this time I have the power of a...
I have been waiting to play with embedded programming since and recently ordered an Arduino. I tested the spare LCD and displays with the normal tutorial commands and went step by step remeber the thing about slow and steady!
I want to build a vector LASER projector and a quadrocopter someday but that is too far. It is kind of my VISION. My Mission is to learn embedded programming via arduino.
It is one hell of a kit.
My very first experiment was a 7 segment dice.
In the last 10 years, sensex gas grown at 17.79% CAGR. That means, if someone could have invested Rs. 1 lac 10 years back, it could have grown to 5.14 lacs. In the last 10 years one third of diversified equity mutual funds have delivered a CAGR of more than 25%. That means if someone could have invested 10 years back in these mutual funds Rs.1lac, it could have grown to Rs.9.31 Lacs. But how many investors have REALLY got these kinds of returns…? In this context knowing about the...
IPO’s or initial public offering is best understood as the first public offering of shares by a private limited company before listing in a stock market. Looking down IPO’s history of success and failure stories, you would be smart to first fully understand the various aspects behind such offerings and makes the right choice to invest or not in IPO’s. It is advisable to understand that investing in IPO’s could prove risky with unfavorable market situations and sentiments and...
What is Happiness…. Why do we search for it… IS it that tought to be happy … To attain this feeling… to have some peace in mind? Why do we have to struggle a lot???
Happiness is one element everyone wants in life..Maybe we all don’t agree on ‘what it is’ and ‘ how...
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This was narrated at a Seminar recently on Human Relations :
Venkatesh Balasubramaniam (who works for IIT) describes how his gesture of booking an air ticket for his father, his maiden
flight, brought forth a rush of emotions and made him (Venkatesh) realize that how much we all take for granted when it comes to our...
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An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window.
The Father asked his Son, “What is this?”
The Son replied “It is a crow”.
After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, “What...
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Don’t give up . . .
One day I decided to quit . . .
I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality . . . I wanted to quit my life.
I went to the woods to have one last talk with God. ‘God’, I asked, ‘Can you give me one good reason not to...
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I Believe…
That just because two people argue, doesn”t mean they don”t love each other. And just because they don”t argue, doesn”t mean they do love each other.
I Believe…
That we don”t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
I Believe…
That no matter how good a friend is, they”re going to hurt you every...
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A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her. The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed.
The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and...
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This speech was delivered to the Class of IIM, Bangalore on defining success by…Subroto Bagchi.
Something which is worth absorbing and my favorite…. So sharing with you all… I am sure you would be smiling after reading it. So tighten your seat belts…
Go! kiss the world ! ! !
I was the last child of a small-time...
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Sitting on a rocking chair…of my Grandfather…the crackling voice getting into my ears..
the whole House empty… ..Living with him for past 25 years….His demise filled my mind with endless questions… whts d purpose of our existence… whts d need..why are we born..
Who has answers…. all have myraid questions… cold questions… as if the silence...
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