Soldered minimalist Arduino
A minimalist Arduino allows for portability while retaining the Arduino fun 🙂 This is the most basic version without any voltage regulatory circuit: Use any USB – Serial converter to upload the sketches from the PC. I used the CP2102…
Fixing the missing LxPanel bug when direct accessing Raspberry Pi shell
Heya Guys, If you followed our previous post (Direct SSH into Raspberry Pi in Headless Mode), you must have noticed that we were not able to get the lxpanel (the Start menu bar) of the Raspberry Pi and only the…
Making LeapMotion and Arduino talk using Bluetooth
After having received the Dev Kit from LeapMotion team a while back, we enjoyed playing with the many demos, examples and libraries posted by fellow Leap Developers. Many asked for linking with H/W including Android, Raspberry Pi and Arduino. A…
Asrar (younger bro) featured in Microsoft\’s video on Microsoft Student Partners
Controlling Raspberry Pi over the Internet using WebIOPi framework
I was struggling for some weeks getting this done, but just achieved a breakthrough. This post will brief out controlling the RasPi’s GPIOs over the network and demonstrating how easily it can be used as a powerful IOT device. Most…
Bismillaahirrahmaanirraheem!!!
Bis-mil-laa-hir-rah-maa-nir-raheem “In the name of Allah, the most Beneficient, the most Merciful”!!! Finally, got my own domain :)! I essentially blogged at and will move here shortly. Please bear with me while I import my previous posts and…
3 Wire Serial LCD using ShiftRegsiter
I came across this nice link and after couple of hops landed on this page that briefs out nicely how to make a simple 3 wire Serial LCD using a Shift Register. Need to try this out, will save…
Arduino on a breadboard
After fiddling around for some time, Alhamdulillah got a barebone Arduino setup on a breadboard. Using a CP2102 USB-Serial breakout board for uploading sketches from the IDE. Loving this setup as I get to learn and understand Arduino and AVR…
Sharing WiFi Internet connection with Raspberry Pi through LAN/Ethernet (Headless Mode)
After having setup the Raspberry Pi to work in headless mode directly without installing anything on it as described in this post, we then tinkered on to share WiFi internet connection with the Raspberry Pi through the LAN/Ethernet connection which…