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Beautiful Sri Lanka

June 29, 2008


Produced by Sri Lanka Tourist board, themed “Small Island, Big Trip”.
Here’s the YouTube link

Written by Azmeer · Filed Under Videos 

ePDA : The world’s first bluetooth, Unix, ARM based PDA

June 28, 2008

I would like to share some of the rare pictures of ePDA. A brave project started by MediaSolv in 1999. It was ahead of its time, just like many other projects MediaSolv tried hard to commercialize. Read more

Written by Azmeer · Filed Under Mechatronics 

Increasing the effectiveness by ‘information architecture’

June 24, 2008

A reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds - a person assailed by other forces competing for attention. At one time these forces weren't so numerous: newspapers, radio, spouse, home, children. Today they also include a "home entertainment center" (TV, VCR, Tapes, CDs), pets, a fitness program, a yard and all the gadgets that have been bought to keep it spruce, and that most potent of competitors, sleep. The person snoozing in a chair with a magazine or a book is a person who was being given too much unnecessary trouble by the writer. Read more

Written by Azmeer · Filed Under Art & Design 

Robot hand PC interface

June 24, 2008

Robot HandI guess my love for robots started when I was in eighth grade or so. It must be the tele-series ‘Battle Star Galactica‘ and continues visits to my school library’s, ’science - reference only’ section. The various colorful sci-fi dreams kept my head full. I had sketches of weird machines all over my textbooks! The first useful ‘gadget’ must have been a ‘water powered dish washer’. The idea was never realized, unfortunately. And then I designed my first character ROM using mechanical parts. After discovering digital electronics, I started laughing at my old ideas! Jeez what a waste of brainpower. Read more

Written by Azmeer · Filed Under Mechatronics 

LED animation

June 20, 2008

It is right to say that I’m obsessed with LEDs. I simply love them; red, green, amber, yellow, now even blue and white!. I remember somewhere around 1985, when I first saw someone building a LED blinker (transistor based astable multi vibrator; for the tech savvy crowd), I was really fascinated. At that time, only red and green LEDs were available in the market, and were pretty expensive for a schooling kid like me. I guess LEDs attracted my attention towards electronics. Read more

Written by Azmeer · Filed Under LED light and magic