Zaid Pirwani

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

Month: April 2012

  • Virtual Router – [Software]

    Virtual Router – [Software]

    Virtual Router is a software which allows any Windows 7 computer to turn into a Wireless Hotspot (Router) and share a connection, to which others can connect via WiFi. I can think of a few uses of such a software, apart from the obvious one of being able to have a wireless router ready in…

  • Vero-Boarding [Software]

    Vero-Boarding [Software]

    No matter how good your project is, how good a circuit designer you may be or how much thought you have put into your project, if the final circuits in your project are not sturdy enough, stable enough and strong enough your project is bound to fail. Electronic projects start from an idea which turns…

  • AVR Fuse-Bit Fixer [Gallery]

    AVR Fuse-Bit Fixer [Gallery]

    The Doctor to my AVRs, introducing the AVR Fuse-bit Fixer / Resetter. This is actually a High Voltage Parallel Programmer and High Voltage Serial Programmer built into one circuit with code to automatically reset any AVR connected to its terminals to factory settings. Details of AVR Fuse-Bit Fixer [nggallery id=4]

  • Dual Power Supply [Gallery]

    Dual Power Supply [Gallery]

    In first year of engineering, we were taught about rectification of ac signal by diode and how to make a simple power supply using step-down transformer for decreasing the voltage level of mains, diode for rectification, capcitors for filtering and voltage regulators at the end to regulate the voltage to some proper level. Until I…

  • Tachtastic – AVR Tachometer

    Tachtastic – AVR Tachometer

    “Tachtastic”, a not so creative name for a tachometer. I was in my 2nd year of BE at the time and making a Tachometer seemed like a good idea and an easy project (according to a senior). For those who don’t know, a tachometer is a device which can count the number of revolutions/rotations of…