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...
Twitter has announced that links shared on Twitter.com will be automatically shortened using the service’s t.co URL shortener.
Links of any length will be cut down to a tidy number of characters — 19, to be precise — and an ellipsis when the sender clicks the Tweet button.
Although each link is assigned...
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It’s official. Twitter last night finalized a deal to buy TweetDeck, ending weeks of speculation.
The two companies announced the acquisition Wednesday in separate blog posts. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
CNN.com reported Tuesday that Twitter was buying the maker of applications for the microblogging site for $40 million in cash and stock.
“This acquisition is...
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Before Twitter was public, it was just an AIM hack on Jack Dorsey’s pager.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey had a background in messenger culture. He had even launched a dispatch software startup called D-Net, back in 1999. He was also captivated by his friends status messages on AOL Instant...
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What is a “retweet”or “retweeting”?
Have you ever received an interesting email and forwarded it to your friends? You know, like a funny joke or a breaking news item that you thought would be of interest to your friends so you hit the “forward” button on your email client to pass that message on. That’s...
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When I joined twitter i was Petrified about HASH # about FF about followfriday shoutouts and etc. I wondered what is the whole story about.
Now I am officaly 4 months old on Twitter, though my Account was Bot from last 1 year.
When we tweet anything we can put a HASH (#) to...
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Tweeting is an ART. And it needs dedication and commitment. I came across some wonderful Twitter Applications which I used myself and loved them. I am sharing the same to my readers.
1) Tweepular
If you want to know who is following you and who is not, this solution will give you the...
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Twitter is HUGE and yes it really is. With more than 600 tweets per second it becomes very difficult to find the information of your taste. To overcome this limitation the Twitter community came up with a novel idea of #hashtags. If you are unaware of #hashtags we have it explained over here.
These #hashtags...
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Tags on Twitter or more popularly known as hashtags or simply #tags are a way of cataloging tweets on Twitter. Just like the wild wild web Twitter too is a micro www in its own where the rate of flow of information is so immense that one can easily freak out. The intelligent...
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Twitterank
Ranking or percentile and the confidence is truely opposite. Lol . The percentile means that my account is “better” than a certain percent of of other Twitter users… but, not to worry, the algorithm has only very low confidence in the score. Seems pointless to use it.
Twitterholic
Even after clicking the “Crawl...
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There were days when I was happy with my phone and email, conversing with my friends and sharing updates of my blogs very frequntly. Then came this new bird on the block. This birdie promised to deliver your updates to several people, sounded cool, so I got a birdie for me. This little birdie...
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