Zaid Pirwani

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

Month: November 2011

  • Find that Character – Shapecatcher.com [Webapp]

    Find that Character – Shapecatcher.com [Webapp]

    When was the last time you spent almost an hour fiddling through the list of unicode characters list to find that one greek/latin character that you needed to put in your report. Shapcatcher.com – A website that lets you draw a character, then tries to recognize it and gives you a list of possible suspects.…

  • 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,…

  • NeverWet Spray is Superhydrophobic

    NeverWet Spray is Superhydrophobic

    Superhydrophobic: Repelling water to the degree that droplets do not flatten but roll off instead. Only a few surfaces exhibit the hydrophobic let alone superhydrophobic phenomenon but the people at Ross Nanotechnologies have come up with a spray-on-can of superhydrophobic goodness. Here is a video that explains and demonstrates what the new spray can do: With…

  • IEEE Xtreme 5.0 – [Thankyou Post]

    IEEE Xtreme 5.0 – [Thankyou Post]

    Whole Post in 1-Line: IEEE Xtreme makes me a better programmer PERIOD. I have been a student member of IEEE for about 2 years now and for these 2 years I tried to participate in as many IEEE related activities as I could the best thing that happened participating in IEEE Xtreme competitions. IEEE Xtreme is…