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...
Lawsuit claims that tech giant collects data about customers’ whereabouts even they have opted out of location tracking
Microsoft faces a lawsuit for allegedly tracking the location of users of its Windows Phone 7 software even after they had opted out
Microsoft tracks the location of its mobile users even after customers turned the software off, a...
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Microsoft spokespeople have been coy about when the Office 365 cloud service will launch, saying only that it will come out later in 2011. But CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed that it will launch in June.
Speaking in Delhi, India, to an industry group last week, Ballmer said, “We’re pushing hard in...
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After months of speculation and leaks, most of which turned out to be fake, Microsoft finally showed off a preview of Windows 8 at the D9 conference this week. The new OS is a drastic break from previous Windows versions, and the company has learned a lot from the two...
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Bing announced that it has integrated Facebook Likes within its regular search results, similar to a move that Google made with social “shares” from Twitter and other services last week.
Facebook Likes Previously Separated
In October, Bing added Facebook Likes to the bottom of its search results page. If you searched for ...
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Google lifted the veil on its chrome laptop Wednesday and also launched a somewhat Quixotic initiative to dent Microsoft’s dominance in the enterprise with a program that provides software, laptops and support for $28 per month per user.
As Apple continues to make modest advances in the office now Google wants a...
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Microsoft’s historic and prolonged dispute with U.S. regulators over antitrust violations has finally come to an end. And how things have changed.
May 12 marks the expiration of a consent decree the software giant signed with the Department of Justice in 2002, an agreement that narrowly saved Microsoft from being broken...
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When Microsoft announces its fiscal third quarter earnings after the market closes today, most analysts will zero in on one data point–how Windows is selling.
Windows–one of the three engines that powers Microsoft sales and profits, along with Office, and server software–seems likely to have a sluggish quarter. Two weeks ago,...
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Just days after reports that Google and Facebook were interested in partnering with, and possibly buying VoIP company Skype, Microsoft announced that it was buying the company for $8.56 billion in cash.
Last year, Skype had revenue of $860 million on which it posted an operating profit of $264 million. However,...
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Microsoft issued a patch for its Word software to comply with a court ruling that it infringed on patents relating to the use of XML or extensible markup language in its flagship word processing software.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word programmes containing the infringing...
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Lately I installed windows 7 on my xps 1210 and its awesome. I had been discovering small tricks in win 7 and then I stumbled upon to this mega tricks list of the OS on msdn blogs.
Enjoy.
Windows Management. By now, you’ve probably seen that Windows 7 does a lot to make window management easier:...
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