Rahul Jose me@rahuljose.com
Rahul Jose is a Bangalore based Engineer with a passion for Technology,Startups and Statistics and is currently working on Automotive Embedded Systems
You can contact him atme[at]rahuljose[dot]com
Jul 04
May 29
RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
via XKCD
Apr 02
A few photos from my recent trip to Punjab,Delhi,Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh(not in that order)
Apr 01
» A new kind of voulme control
HTML 5 Rocks!! Awesome Stuff.
PS:- On a side note almost 1 month since the last post that doesn’t sound like the original plan to do one every fortnight.Well life what can one say.
Mar 02
So True!! via xkcd
Feb 24
» An indepth look into microSD card fakes(Very interesting read)
via Sparkfun
I was initially planning to get a microSD card for my NAS but I think a 2.5” HDD makes more sense in terms of Price per GB.
Feb 08
Sparkfun Free Day:-
Sadly wasn’t able to snag anything for free,even the new servers weren’t able to deal with the number of people trying to get things for free.Was really looking forward to getting a free arduino and a few other components(look at the pic).I did take away a few pointers from the whole episode.
- Reinforced my awe for the power of free-people were awake at all kinds of ungodly hours(across the world)to take advantage of the free day.The IRC server had more users on the sparkfun channel than the Ubuntu and Debian channels.
- Offering stuff for free probably is not the best way to make friends.Best summed up by a comment I read somewhere which went something like this “they probably made a 1000 friends and a lot more enemies”
Well my Arduino controlled Christmas Lights will have to wait till I have some money in my pocket.All said and done really loved the initiative by Sparkfun you really can’t blame them,would love to do business with them in the future.
The most interesting thing is that according to one of the sparkfun employees Free Day paid for itself within a few hours that’s huge.
This post has been in the draft for quite a while(been out of town) but there has been an interesting update an Indian website tried emulating the same free day approach but offered around 500Rs or 10USD worth of free stuff from the website though they did not have an Arduino Board I was able to snag a Breadboard,IR Sensor,IR LED’s and an alphanumeric display which I want to use in a future project.They actually called and confirmed the order with me I was pretty impressed by the Customer Support.So here’s a hat tip to them and a link to their website if you are into robotics you should find the place pretty interesting.
Dec 31
Dec 16
» The Capacitor Plague
Very well researched post should be interesting to people willing to pick up soldering irons to fix things to get some more mileage out of their gadgets and gizmo’s.
