Zaid Pirwani

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

Category: Circuits ‘n’ Stuff

  • Tachtastic: AVR Tachometer [Gallery]

    Here is an image gallery of TACHTASTIC, the AVR Tachometer, all images are arranged in order of when they were taken (50+ images), the gallery has pics from the very start of the project when I was just testing out on breadboard, final breadboard test prototype and finally images of the completed PCB and sensors.…

  • Soundcard Scope [Software]

    Soundcard Scope [Software]

    Having an oscilloscope can save lots of time while working on an electronics project, but affording one seems a bit far fetched for a student when the scopes usually cost more than a couple hundred dollars. However there are a few alternatives that a studetn can use without having to spend too much. Soundcard Scope…

  • LASER Ball [How-to]

    LASER Ball [How-to]

    Who can argue with a DIY Instructable when it has all the things that I love – LASERS, Arduino and Infrared. So without further ado, I present here Laser Ball, inspiring me to do a bit more work on Arduino. A complete guide on ho to make one yourself is provided at the instructables site,…

  • LCD Interfacing with AVR – [Library Explanation]

    LCD Interfacing with AVR – [Library Explanation]

    A few days ago, I posted a video+post about how to interface AVR with a text LCD (link: LCD Interfacing with AVR – [VIDEO + FILES]), but I had no time to explain some of the modifications which can be done in the library to get desired results. In this post I will try to…

  • LCD Interfacing with AVR – [VIDEO + FILES]

    LCD Interfacing with AVR – [VIDEO + FILES]

    My friend asked me to make a demo video for him on how to interface AVR with a Text LCD using a LCD Library available freely(links below). After procrastinating as much as I could, I finally made the video, prepared it for upload, finalized the files etc and now here is this post… I will…