Zaid Pirwani

an all-round Engineering and Technology Geek, founder EjaadTech and Pop Up Learning – currently, IT Manager at FESF

Author: Zaid Pirwani

  • Brazil of 1950 and Pakistan 2013 – Close Enough

    Brazil of 1950 and Pakistan 2013 – Close Enough

    I am reading “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character” [Google Books] a book/collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Richard Feynman – found the book at the same market from where I found the Newness Electrical Engineering book. I bought the book as I have heard quite a few lectures of Mr. Feynman on youtube and…

  • Newnes – Practical Electrical Engineering – Antique Book

    Newnes – Practical Electrical Engineering – Antique Book

    Found a book in Sunday Bazaar, seemed interesting at the moment so bought it, for Rs. 20 (Approx. 0.2USD). Am not an Electrical Engineer nor a student of it [see update below] but some of the charts and datasheets still seem quite relevant so maybe they will be useful for someone, for now I am…

  • Project Files: Tachtastic – AVR Tachometer

    Project Files: Tachtastic – AVR Tachometer

    On demand of a site-visitor (Mohsen) I have uploaded all the relevant files that I had for the project Tachtastic: AVR Tachometer, you can download and view them. The files are more than a year old and show how I coded back then and were not meant for uploading – but now that I have…

  • the FEAR of Software

    the FEAR of Software

    Over the course of years I have used Windows as the primary OS and have moved from Win95 to Win8 now, crossing all the steps along the way, including Win ME, 2000 and Vista. Along my so-called journey of evolution of Windows OS I have never hesitated to use the newer version of a software…

  • Phase and Integral Cycle AC Power Control with Arduino

    Phase and Integral Cycle AC Power Control with Arduino

    What you see above is a project made for my Power Electronics Course, last term, finally completed and submitted. It is an AVR based board having 2 optically-isolated TRIACs for AC Power Control and implements both Phase Control and Burst Fire Control on each of the TRIACs. Controllable by an NEC IR Remote, shows status…