Android SDK is a development kit targeted at developing apps for mobile devices running Android. With the Android SDK, one can develop, debug, and test apps via an in-built emulator. The emulator can emulate the expected behaviour of the Android OS on many platforms including Linux, Windows, and Ma...

After making a custom stylus for capacitive screens, I decided to go try the same on devices other than my own. At present the only touchscreen device I own is a Nokia Lumia 800 that I couldn't use it both as a camera and the test device. The iPad mini would make a good testbed, if I had one. So, a...

A while back I had posted a picture on Twitter that featured a stylus I made to precision control the iPad. It felt really great for a few reasons - 'I made it myself' is definitely one. Secondly, it should feel nice to save on commercially available add-ons that end up providing more or less the...

I have been having a great time concentrating more on my work with electronics. Seems like the days are getting better. Just recently, I was successfully able to make use of the MIDI protocol for creation of music and potentially a synthesiser. It's just been two days since I wrote codes and had fu...

This post is going to mark a paradigm shift in my blogging. Most of my earlier posts seem to deviate from the point I try to make. I'm not promising all my posts will be to the point from now, but you can certainly expect to get a higher content to crap ratio. In this edition let's discuss about MI...

If you're reading this, it is most probably because I referred you here. The important thing, however,  is we're here to learn something new, or at most, upgrade your knowledge, or if you've done this before, provide me some useful critique. We'll be discussing how I built a Morse Code generator. Th...