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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
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.