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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
Signal Operations Applet
Mar 17, 2012
This is actually a set of two "applets" we did as part of an assignment for "Signals and Systems" in the fourth semester of college. The goal was to write an application which illustrated basic signal operations such as shifting, scaling, folding and also signal addition and multiplication.
Stochastic Simulation
Mar 17, 2012
This is a loose collection of programs we wrote as part of a course on "Stochastic Models" we had in the fourth semester of college. This includes a couple of pseudo random number generators (the Von Neumann middle square PRNG and the linear congruential generator PRNG), an implementation of the Monte Carlo method to determine area of an arbitrarily shaped figure and a simple simulation of birth-death process.
Tic Tac Toe
Mar 17, 2012
Sudhakar and I did the coding at the end of our first semester in college (actually, during our semester examinations!). We just wanted to kick start our entry into AI programming and thought teaching the computer to play tic tac toe might be a good start. We may do far greater things, but this is the first proper project we did and hence we are obviously proud of it!
On the Power Crisis
Feb 13, 2012
Now, unless people really start understanding the underlying environmental issues, and take action, nothing is going to happen. It is time to be self-reliant, find our backbones, and get started shaping our own futures. A much better idea than depending on spineless governments, methinks.
Tags: musing
Stallman at PSG Tech
Feb 7, 2012
Stallman was here in college today. Having watched many videos of his speeches from the Internet, and having already been involved with the Free Software Movement, I didn't really have too much new stuff to learn from his speech. But, needless to say, getting to see the man in person, and actually attend one of his speeches, was not an experience I was going to miss out on.
Tags: freesoftware
Google and the Classroom
Aug 21, 2011
It is true the average classroom is a really boring place to be in especially when the teacher is unable to effectively deliver the content. And when students find that their questions don't get satisfactory replies, they lose interest and enthusiasm. But there is also another important factor involved - the Internet.
Tags: musing
No End to This
May 18, 2011
One generation passes and another comes. And another… And another… Each more discontent with the ways of their fathers… For fathers and sons tend to work that way…
Tags: musing
The Dimension of Time
Feb 14, 2011
One has had the strangest ideas in the past, one still has strange ideas in the present, and one surely will have stranger ideas in the future.
Tags: musing
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