I had a TFT color LCD lying around and it is a really cool device, so I decided to use it to create a small, customizable tabletop display using a Raspberry Pi Pico. The PCB for this project was designed by me using Fritzing and was fabricated using Robu.in. Given below are images of the PCB. On t ...

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In my previous posts, I have experimented with different techniques to generate random dinosaur names, including Markov Chain. However, I always had a desire to run a neural network on the Raspberry Pi Pico. While I was familiar with CircuitPython, I had little experience with the C/C++ SDK for Pi P ...

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Starrem2k13 is the brand new tool for star removal in deep sky images. It is basically re-branded version of my previous tool, with following additions: Better output (sharper images, lesser post removal artifacts). Slightly faster. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Swanky new ho ...

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I recently released a new version of my astrophotography star removal tool. I previously blogged about the tool. A lot of effort has gone into developing the v2 of this tool, particularly in terms of producing sharper images. There is still much room for improvement. However, given that the tool was ...

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In this article, I’ll share how I used a Raspberry Pi Pico, an OV7670 camera module, a 128x160 TFT LCD display and machine learning to build a handwritten digit classification system. This code is highly experimental. Even after you follow all the recommended steps in this article, some tinkering wi ...

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Playing around with microcontrollers and other programmable gadgets is something I enjoy doing, and lately, I’ve been paying close attention to TinyML and TFlite. I’ve always wanted to transfer some of my machine learning models onto microcontroller devices. Recently, I acquired a Raspberry Pi Pico ...

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I was recently rereading some software architecture literature. One of the frequent patterns whose names appear in the majority of publications on architectural design patterns is the CQRS pattern. The majority of these sources contain source code and information about this pattern. I therefore ma ...

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Sometime ago I was wondering if it was possible to create a bird’s eye view of a website. A view, that will showcase contents of a website visually and group similar pages/posts. Also I thought it would be cool if I could navigate the website using this view. I could discover more things faster. R ...

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Diatoms are some of the most interesting things you can see under a foldscope/microscope. They generate about 20-50% oxygen on earth every year.They are also known as “jewels of the sea” and “living opals”. It is believed that there are around 200000 species of diatoms. Identification of diatoms can ...

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In this article we will see how we can use Nlphose along with Pyspark to execute a NLP pipeline and gather information about the famous journey from Jules Verne’s book ‘Around the World in 80 days‘. Here is the link to the ⬇️ Pyspark notebook used in this article. From my personal experience what I ...

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