For The Love of Science

Remember when I said, "sooner than you expect?" Well, this post here is a tutorial, like my RasPi lighting system. Actually, its more of an extension to that project really, since I am using the same LED Strips I got back then. Only now, they are properly mounted. So what is different now?  Have you ever been fascinated by those disco lights? Ones that change their color and intensity according to the song that is being played? I bet you have. I bet some of you even wanted those in your room. I know because I wanted one. But those system, don't come cheap. And I'm already on a shoestring budget, pretty much always. The cheaper solution is (pretty much) always to make your own. And hence, I turned to Arduino, the nifty little microprocessor. The Arduino Nano. There are many versions available. The Uno being the most popular. You can use the Uno or the Nano. They have the same processors, but the Nano is easier on the breadboard. Basically, What I nee...

Well, this took a lot longer than even I expected. Let us hope that my posts also do not get the same frequency as today, 29th Feb. Thankfully, I have notes on what I wanted to write about before being consumed by the maddening student life of RWTH. And no. I will not bitch about the RWTH right now. Depending on how things go, I might do it later, or very VERY later. Rather than that, for a change, I would like to dwell on the past, which is ironic because usually, I want to move on from the past and look at new up-and-coming things. More precisely, I would like to continue where I left off in the last post. First things first, for the non-existent person waiting for the details of the braiding robot project that I was involved in for almost 4 years, I have news for you. My aim was to do it as my thesis, but because of reasons including not making enough sacrifices to the education Gods, I could not. That means instead of a full Master's thesis, It had to be shrunk down to a "...

It’s been a really long time since I’ve posted something on the blog. Blogger tells me my last post was 28 th May. That’s nearly 5 months back. As you can guess, a lot has changed in 5 months. NO. I still don’t like my college, but now at least I’m comfortable around some of my classmates. Secondly, I am sort of forced to conclude that I am better off than some of my friends as well, who deserved more but got less, and more importantly who deserved less and got more but still aren’t happy. (Evil Laugh). Of all the teachers in the college (or university, if that matters), the most cool teacher I find is our physics professor. Well, it’s also possible that I find him cool only because of physics, but anyhow. As many of you may know, the first semester studies include basic engineering level physics. Thus, so far, I’ve studied LASER, optical fibers, mathematical derivations of Maxwell’s equations (ugh!) and of course, relativity. Things can get really interesting and peculiar, parti...