Stratocaster.........

Hendrix, used to play on a "Re-strung" strat...... but atleast he ad a right-y strat ( a stratocaster ) to re-string.
Yeah, today i got my first lead guitar... a "re-strung" stratocaster....
And here's the story of its salvation..
We, take the strat,, clean it up... resolder it, restring it, re-intone it...
and voila.. a new "lead" guitar..

BluePrint-ED

BluePrint-ED, thats what i decided to call my csp301 project. FLTK, OpenGL, and LEDA , 2000 odd lines of complicated C++ code, a makefile.............
But its good.. the image above was made in the draw window itself,, cotains 80+ points....
will post the code on sourceforge someday..

LCDs........ haha .. "display power"

finally... after 3 days of thinking, coding and "connection checking", i got the bloody hd44780 and ks0066u based lcd modules working.
"Pragun ZIXIC!", i know sounds stupid but.. just think of my desperation for some text to come over every time i pressed reset on the 18f4550 board.




wires running all over.....
Download the code ( MCC18 compiler, PIC 18f4550 )
8bit mode
4bit mode
I will write a lcd interfacing tutorial someday...
but for now you can refer to myke's lcd page

Rd, the line following bot part1

I was getting bored af all the microcontrollers so I just hooked up a LM324 and a ULN,couple of LDRs and a few resistances "just to see" if simple things like line following can be done without fancy 4.0 mips processors.
The complete story

PCB Making

I needed to get some "interfacing work" done, lcd interfacing, nintendo controller interfacing, accelerometer testing and stuff. And before all that i needed my pic 18f4550 usb board, so i just made the simplest pcb design possible, using only one wire jumper. Complete Story

keeda .. Legged robot...

Its, 8'o clock,, dinner at Holistic, flight to Bangalore at 4 o clock ( early morning ). I go to the Samsung sponsored design lab, and take a look at the really cool innovations done by IITD MTech students. Suddenly it hits me... a robotic insect... and .....one of the initial sketches.....

the complete story..

Presenting ZIXIC!

I was tinkering with Incscape, the opensource svg editor, with the word "ZIXIC" zipping around in my NEURAL NETWORKS. And the outcome.... zixic blog.....