Friday, December 14, 2012

My hobbys of teaching teenage kids covered in CHIP and tech2.in.com

On 6th December Network18 online magazine featured me in one of the articles about teaching raspberry pi to Nithari Children. The same article was also published in Jan 2013 issue of print magazine 'CHIP'. Soft copy of article published in CHIP is here https://www.box.com/s/4lrc1unvcq7rvm1hi9kb

and the one at online site is at http://tech2.in.com/features/general/a-slice-of-raspberry-pi-for-underprivileged-youngsters/625712





Article was written by Rohini and has over 152 likes and 119 tweets. Here are some of the tweets



Wednesday, November 14, 2012

marriage planning

Well, it is difficult. I suggest to have an exhaustive manual and things that you may need.

Here is the list that I think is required

  1. Medicines
  2. Toiletry/Cosmetics
  3. Basket for snacks
  4. List of phone numbers of all active persons (friends, relatives and employees)
  5. Plans for each persons with date and time using google calendar and google drive.
Some steps I have taken is as follows

  1. Placing bulk order with Easy Day/Apollo/Mother Dairy and telling them to deliver material quickly on demand that we forget / have additional needs.
Will be sharing the docs and the experience and the mistakes after the event.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Visit to UIET @ Kurukshetra

I was invited by Mr Rahul Gupta of UIET to present Industry designs on Oct 19th.

I presented about what I do to M Tech students and B Tech students. While students and Mr Gupta was very passionate and enthusiastic, their course and existing knowledge was too obsolete. I shared two kits of PT60 controller from freescale with Aseem Bansal and one more student.

Here is the copy of presentation.

 

Friday, October 12, 2012

BPIT Orientation Day Talk - Few Pics

I was invited to speak to 1st year students of B Tech and MBA of BPIT, Rohini on Oct 8.2012. This is a IP University affiliated college. Here are few pics. Event started one hour behind schedule dur to late arrival of college management. Surendra Sharma, a famuos satirist who is also vice president of this college spoke about few things in his own style.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Some thing about me and my company...

Here are few details about what I am doing - projects, business, technicals...

Saturday, September 15, 2012

R-Pi and Scracth @ Nav Samaj Mandal - Vile Parle (E)

Nine students learned raspberry pi and scratch and then explained the product to over 500 teachers of various schools. Look at the energy levels and excitement. They were too happy at the role reversal even though it lasted for just 2 days.




Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Programming and Fun for kids using Rapberry Pi and Scratch

I have been using raspberry pi with scratch to teach kids about creativity and logic (well it is programming and some fun).
Here is the plan. Do let me know your views.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Some of our comemrcial board designs

Just some of the boards that we use to design commercial products


Friday, August 31, 2012

RaspberryPi and Children of Nithari - at Electronics Rocks 2012

I presented a talk at Nimhans Convention Centre, Bangalore on 30th August about Raspberry Pi and Children of Nithari. EFY will be uploading the video soon. In the mean time here is the copy of presentations. The presentation was to show how raspberry pi can create a possibility of fun and earning for these students. It was not just earning money but adding lot of fun, pride and confidence using latest technology and brand new computers....

(More about Nithari is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nithari and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noida_serial_murders)

(Note - Presentation has been updated with more information and is different from the original presentation)


Electronics Rocks 2012 @ Nimhans Convention Center, Banglore -


Electronics For You organised an event for electronics students and professionals at Bangalore "Electronics Rocks 2012" on Aug 30th and 31st.

I presented a 20 minute talk about how raspberry pi can be used by students to learn computers and programming. 


Apart from this I also participated in a one hour panel discussion about which  micro controller board is suitable for hobbyists. Other participants included persons from Freescale, Xilinx and Element14.

Presentation copy is here http://vinay.gvc.in/2012/08/presentation-at-electronics-rocks-2012.html and 20 minute video has been recorded by EFY and is yet to be shared online.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Nithari Kids Playing and Learning with Raspberry-Pi

I started playing with raspberry-pi along with students of Nithari Village in Noida. It has been real fun and enjoyment. Check out some of the pics here...

And also see an article in LiveMint which talks about raspberry pi and mention me at http://www.livemint.com/articles/2012/08/14203904/Enabling-DIY-computing.html

Monday, August 13, 2012

Which Controller to Use and Why?

I have worked on various controllers and processors - starting  from 8080 and 8048. Technology keeps improving with time and next design is always better in performance, speed, on board peripherals and usually lowers in cost. Also software tools keeps improving.

As on Aug 2012 - I am working on Arduino and STM8 for 8 bits, PIC32 for 32 bits and STM32F4 for Arm Cortex M4 and Raspberry Pi for embedded Linux based designs. The reason is easy availability of devices, low cost tools, better support and of course excellent tools with built in libraries.

Today, I do not focus on hardware but on software tools. New software tools with built in libraries offer reduce time to market. Of course, I do not understand every thing about the product. Well, I do not need to as my target is to deliver product and not the library.

Only if you need to develop library, you need to go thru the internal and details of device.

See the comments of various design professionals in Aug 2012 issue of EFY.





Monday, July 30, 2012

Raspberry Pi Videos

I have been training Python and programming to kids at Nithari Village. Now I have requests from few more areas for the training. As this is not workable for me, I am training kids at Nithari so that they teach more kids. This video is first step in that direction...

This video shows how six parts can be connected together in just one minute to have a ready for switching on system

Friday, July 27, 2012

Sad state of affairs at Engg Colleges


(HT Delhi, July 25,2012, Page 11)

Friday, July 20, 2012

Lift Controllers

We have sold over 2000 elevator controllers. Royal Estate Garden is a housing society with 17 towers of 8 floors each. Twelve of these towers are using elevators controllers designed, manufactured and sold by GVC Systems.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Why I do not need vacations or how I keep blood pressure below 120/80

I was with my doctor today to get treatment for hair root infection. He checked my BP - it was 118/70. He complimented me on keeping same BP for last 15 years, even when as a true Punjabi, I enjoy lot of butter and pakoras ....

Well, here is what I do to keep low blood pressure and does not look forward to vacations or even a weekend -
  1. I work for 12 hours a day X 7 days a week on thing that I enjoy and make money.
  2. get royal welcome from maggie and a good smile from Geeta on reaching home, 
  3. spend three hours every week with saksham kids and see their smile and excitement. Spend some money and get lot of fun and enjoyment.
  4. get up in the morning when  maggie's starts licking my face, Spend 45 minutes in park walking and listening to the birds. 
  5. Have a library with books on Psychology, Management, Fiction, Sex and Religion. Spend more time and money on books than on TV.
  6. And live a life that I love.


Try it out and you may find that enjoying every day life is more addictive than any thing else you are addicted to ........




Sunday, July 1, 2012

Touch Screen and Digital Display

During last 3 months, we have completed three designs. Working on eight more designs.......

Friday, February 17, 2012

Leveraging Open Source Tools like Arduino and Android

I presented a 25 minute talk at EFY Expo in Delhi in Feb 2012 about using open source technology for development of commercial designs.