Jeffrey's Log

By: Jeffrey | Published on: February 23, 2009

Octave is a kind of FREE SOFTWARE replacement to matlab. But still these days matlab is being used by colleges for their lab purposes.

Even my B-Tech syllabus of calicut university has matlab to be learned. So I thought of moving towards octave. These are some cool links to start with OCTAVE. You must have installed octave in your PC for using this.

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/docs.html

http://www.aims.ac.za/resources/tutorials/octave/

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~kpl2/dsts6/octaveTutorial.html

http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk/web/CD/engapps/octave/octavetut.pdf

These tutorials are not written by me. But I am planning to write one. It will contain some basic commands and also the experiments solved for the B-Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering.

Octave Introduction

Experiments using Octave for B-Tech course

Soon this page will be running up. Now I am going for my final year tour to Hyderabad (INDIA) .After that the tutorials will be setup…

You can just see a small experiment implemented by my friend using octave.

http://kishoreathrasseri.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/dsp-lab-week-1/

Posted in: Electronics, FOSS, GNU/Linux, Mathematics, Open Course | Tagged under: B-Tech, calicut university, Electronics, octave, tour to hydrabad | 1 Comment

Free Software and Open Hardware talk on Chelakara

By: Jeffrey | Published on: February 20, 2009

Brief report on the talk conducted at Government Polytechnique college, Chelakara

Yesterday (19-02-2009) Krishnan Unni and I went to conduct a talk on Free Software, Python Programming and Open Hardware. These talk’s were conducted as the request from students of poly technique.

I and unni reached the college almost at 10.00 AM. There was a small inaugural session. After that we were asked to start the talk . The morning session was on Free Software Philosophy, GNU/Linux installation steps and general GNU/Linux doubts. this was handled by Unni.

All the students were eagerly hearing the talk. There was a very good response from the students. And the important thing is that all the students were very interactive. Questions were coming from all sides on general GNU/Linux tools, virus removal methods, installing games, accessing internet….. This session had an end at 12.30 PM.

The afternoon session was split into two, the python programming and the other was Open hardware. Python Programming was handled by unni. There was a small programming contest on python. He also showed how to develop software’s using python.

My topic was Open Hardware. Actually what I had in mind was introducing what is open hardware, common electronic designing tools and programming the AVR microcontrollers using GNU/Linux. But everything changed after seeing their syllabus.These guys had to study about ATmega128 and also about ARM processors. I was shocked seeing it. Even the calicut university Electronics Engineering syllabus didn’t have these latest topics. I introduced about open hardware. But programming the AVR microcontrollers was not that much nice. There was a parallel port failure and the other fact was that the students knew how to program all these . What I showed was LED blinking. But they had studied blinking LED’s in their 6th semester itself. Anyway I could have made it more fun if I knew about the syllabus by adding some superb videos like Big Buck Bunny

Now I am in a shame to say that I am learning Electronics engineering because a lower course like the diploma had a lot more to study than engineering course…. these students were more practical.

Anyway the response form the students were fantastic. Thanks to Yamini Madam and all the computer science students of chelakara.

Posted in: Electronics, Embedded Linux, FOSS, Free Software Events, GNU/Linux | Tagged under: B-Tech, Free Software Seminars, open hardware, Talks | 9 Comments

Analog Computer Bouncing Ball

By: Jeffrey | Published on: February 12, 2009

See this video of bouncing Ball on an analog computer done by Eric Archer.

You can check his page for more detailed description.

eric archer . net » Analog Computer Bouncing Ball

Posted in: Electronics, Hacking | Tagged under: analog computer | Leave a comment

FOSSMeet @ NITC 2009

By: Jeffrey | Published on: February 11, 2009

Hurray….

One more chance for all the FOSS users to meet face to face. It’s the FOSS MEET at NIT Calicut, Kerala. I most probably I will be also there. Please come for the event. It will be cool and superb. Anyway I am attending this FOSS MEET for the first time.

The meet is from February 27 (Friday) to March 1 (Sunday)

The registration had started one week before. Sorry for reporting too late.

If you want to register as a Speaker, go to Speaker Registration

If you want to attend the talks and workouts as a delegate, go to Delegate Registration

Posted in: Free Software Events, GNU/Linux | Tagged under: Calicut, Free Software Seminars, NITC FOSSMEET | Leave a comment