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Throughput of Aloha Networks
Mar 26, 2012
A derivation of the mathematical expression for the throughput of an aloha network using the exponential and Poisson random distributions
Tags: math
Why parabolic reflectors?
Mar 26, 2012
At school, we are taught that parallel rays incident on the mirror, after reflection, pass through the focus of the mirror, and that irrespective of the position of these parallel rays, the position of the focus does not change. But that is not quite true. It is just an approximation.
A Free World
Mar 24, 2012
This is a newsletter we designed for a newsletter design contest conducted in our college on March 2010. The contest was called N'Vogue and it was conducted as part of Verve '10 by the ELS (English Literary Society) of our college.
Tags: project
Quiz Buzzer
Mar 17, 2012
This is a quiz buzzer system supporting a maximum of 8 teams. It uses an ATMega8 microcontroller unit to continuously read the state of the buzzer switches, find which team pressed the buzzer first, and display the appropriate number in the seven segment display.
Tags: electronics, project
Resistor Color Codes Script
Mar 17, 2012
I just decided to write a Python script to convert resistor color codes to resistance values. Later, I also wrote a script to do the reverse - namely to find the color code of a given resistor.
Tags: electronics, python, software, project
Series Regulated Power Supply
Mar 17, 2012
This is a series regulated power supply that provides an output voltage of about 5.3 V and a maximum current of almost 500 mA.
Tags: electronics