Month: October 2016

Custom Character Generator for 16×2/Dot Matrix LCD

Bikash Narayan Panda
MAX7219 LED Matrix Custom Char

Around microcontrollers, 16×2 LCD is a great way of displaying information to users. They are the cheapest and easy to use. Moreover, there are tons of libraries available to use these across different microcontrollers. If you want to learn more about 16×2 displays interfacing, you can check out this post. In this post, we will discuss how to show custom characters in a 16×2 LCD and dot matrix displays also. To generate the array bytes for such character generation I have written a small JAVA program, which lets you draw…

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Desktop app using JAVA to share to social media

Bikash Narayan Panda
JAVA socialShare

Thsi is a JAVA based desktop app that I use to share to social media accounts. I have used Facebook4J, Twitter4J like opensource libraries to make it work.Feel free to contribute to the repo… Links: GITHub Repo : https://goo.gl/Pz3D5z Facebook4J:https://goo.gl/NivxPh Twitter4J:https://goo.gl/sK1uG3 Facebook Developer :https://goo.gl/6TRS40 Twitter Developer: https://goo.gl/OLASFE ******************************************************************** Subscribe YouTube : https://goo.gl/FhfdL7 Guys Subscribe to my channel for latest contents into your inbox. Support me to keep going. ___________________________________________ Website : https://wglabz.in Twitter : https://twitter.com/geekybikash YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/weargenius Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/weargenius/ GIT : https://github.com/oksbwn Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/geekybikash Bikash Narayan PandaDeveloper, Tinkere,…

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Fedora 25 on Raspberry Pi | Let’s check it out

Bikash Narayan Panda
Fedora 25

Finally Fedora 25 beta version is out with the support for Raspberry Pi 2/3. Why not to give it a try ? In this video let’s check it out how it works. Fedora /fᵻˈdɒr.ə/ (formerly Fedora Core) is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under a free and open-source license and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. As of February 2016, Fedora has an estimated 1.2 million users, including…

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Logic Level Shifter using 2N7000

Bikash Narayan Panda
2N7000 logic level shifter

The 2N7000 and BS170 are N-channel, enhancement-mode MOSFETs used for low-power switching applications. The two are nearly identical except that the leads are arranged differently and the current ratings are somewhat different; they are sometimes listed together on the same datasheet, along with other variants 2N7002, VQ1000J, and VQ1000P.The 2N7000 is a widely available and popular part, often recommended as useful and common components to have around for hobbyist use, along with such other popular discrete semiconductors as the 1N4148 and 1N4001 diodes; the 2N2222, 2N3904, and 2N3906 bipolar junction…

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Checking out BBC micro:bit

Bikash Narayan Panda
BBC micro:bit

The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized, codable computer that allows anyone to get creative with technology. Made possible through a major partnership with 31 organisations, a micro:bit has been given to every 11 or 12 year old child in year 7 or equivalent across the UK, for free.   ————————————————————————————————— Can be programmed with high-level online IDEs using the BBC’s website at http://www.microbit.co.uk/create-code including: Microsoft TouchDevelop IDE Microsoft Blocks CodeKingdoms Javascript MicroPython mbed enabled Online IDE at developer.mbed.org Easy to use C/C++ SDK Dedicated micro:bit runtime libraries for rapid development…

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Access Raspberry Pi on Smartphone using VNC | RealVNC

Bikash Narayan Panda
VNC

RealVNC: Remotely accessing Raspberry Pi Graphical Interface using smart phone. For this I have used VNC. In computing, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the Remote Frame Buffer protocol (RFB) to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network.VNC is platform-independent – there are clients and servers for many GUI-based operating systems and for Java. Multiple clients may connect to a VNC server…

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Connecting ESP8266 with Raspberry PI

Bikash Narayan Panda
ESP8266

                                    Connecting the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module to Raspberry Pi.The ESP8266 is a low-cost Wi-Fi chip with full TCP/IP stack and microcontroller capability produced by Shanghai-based Chinese manufacturer, Espressif Systems. The chip first came to the attention of western makers in August 2014 with the ESP-01 module, made by a third-party manufacturer, AI-Thinker. This small module allows microcontrollers to connect to a Wi-Fi network and make simple TCP/IP connections using Hayes-style commands. However, at the time there was almost no English-language documentation on the chip and the commands it accepted.The very…

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Raspbian Jessie | PIXEL | SEP-2016 Release | Explore

Bikash Narayan Panda

Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your Raspberry Pi run. However, Raspbian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi. The initial build of over 35,000 Raspbian packages, optimized for best performance on the Raspberry Pi, was completed in June of 2012. However, Raspbian is still under active development with…

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