Zaid Pirwani

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

Category: Circuits ‘n’ Stuff

  • Arduino an Explanation – AVR @ Heart

    Arduino an Explanation – AVR @ Heart

    I have been asked again and again by my friends and students to use Arduino or not and some people who are using AVR asked me if Arduino is better and some who were using Arduino asked the same about AVR. Well, here it goes, [this is all that I know, haven’t researched or confirm any…

  • Simulating Arduino [Steps for Windows/PC]

    Simulating Arduino [Steps for Windows/PC]

    This is a STEP-by-STEP post, no-nonsense approach to simulating an Arduino on your PC, for those who don’t have the actual Arduino hardware, but have the following Required Software: Arduino [Free] Download from http://arduino.cc Proteus [NOT-Free] (I am assuming you have a licensed version from school or something (google maybe) From here on, I will…

  • Raspberry Pi – Setting up for Electronics and Development Work

    Raspberry Pi – Setting up for Electronics and Development Work

    The following is a step-by-step procedure of what I did to get my Raspberry Pi in some sort of working condition, having SSH, VNC access, development tools installed, GPIO and Wiring-Pi Library and having a static IP so that Raspberry Pin can be connected directly to Laptop/PC via an ethernet cable without any router etc.…

  • 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…

  • 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…