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If it’s not hard, its not worth making

I am currently collecting drivers’ data about driving habits for my Udacity Self Driving Car Nanodegree program. You can check out some of my progress below. If am not in my lab, drop me an email and we can talk.

RaspberryPi Arduino UNO Serial Port Connection

Connecting the RaspberryPi and Arduino via Serial

Posted on July 1, 2018
Our Self Driving Model Car uses a RaspberryPi and Arduino for power and control. These two powerful and functional devices must have smooth communication else our car will have control problems thereafter. In our previous car model we used a RaspberryPi only but now we have an Arduini UNO which will be used to control the wheels. Student1: What is the RaspberryPi and Arduino? The RaspberryPi is a single board, credit card sized computer that runs minimal software and can be used in very many areas. [Read More]
#arduino  #pi  #c++ 

RaspberryPi-Arduino UNO Serial Port Connection in C/C++

Connecting the RaspberryPi and Arduino via Serial

Posted on July 1, 2018
Our Self Driving Model Car uses a RaspberryPi and Arduino for power and control. These two powerful and functional devices must have smooth communication else our car will have control problems thereafter. In our previous car model we used a RaspberryPi only but now we have an Arduini UNO which will be used to control the wheels. Student1: What is the RaspberryPi and Arduino? The RaspberryPi is a single board, credit card sized computer that runs minimal software and can be used in very many areas. [Read More]
#arduino  #pi  #c++ 

Accessing Google Drive From Terminal

 Posted on May 19, 2018
Google Drive is a good way to backup your data. In Windows this can be accomplished simply by having a Google account and drag-dropping stuff into it. From a CLI - Command Line Interface a different approach is used which I will explain in this article. My distro is [Archlinux]() so this tutorial is based on the same. Tools rclone gdrive rclone rclone is written in Google’s Go Language and it a powerful tool that can be used to access your Google Drive neatly from the terminal. [Read More]
#archlinux  #gdrive 

Greetings From Voi

The Views and Experiences in Voi Town

Posted on April 2, 2018
I have been in Voi town for over a week now and I believe its wise to jot down a post about this relatively remote town along the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway. Am down here on assignment with AVIC Kenya at Coast Institute of Technology where we are conducting a training for various TVET teachers in a Mechatronic Engineering course which is being offered in Chinese by Chinese teachers. This training has been running for the last 3 months so am just here for the last 1 month or so as an interpreter for Chinese–English and vice versa. [Read More]
#voi  #taita-taveta  #voi-wildlife-lodge  #tsavo  #2g  #sgr 

External Operation [EXT] of a Mitsubishi D700 VFD to Control a 3phase Motor

Realise 3 speed operation of a motor using a VFD

Posted on March 1, 2018
External Operation of a 3phase Motor Using Mitsubishi D700 Inverter The Mitsubishi D700 Inverter is a very handy variable frequency drive for the electrical engineer. This model, though discontinued has been used in a variety of connections for different types of loads. In today’s experiment, I want to show you how to control a small 3phase motor using the D700 to make the motor run in 3 different speeds, and change direction. [Read More]
#3phase  #motor  #frequency  #vfd  #mitsubishi 

My Encounter With The STC Microcontrollers

The STC15xx series is a low power stable microcontroller

Posted on January 26, 2018
The first time I held an STC microcontroller was today morning when we were preparing the lab ahead of the class experiment for tomorrow. I decided to assemble my own board from the components given. The boards were packed tightly in bulk so it was quite a task to set them up. The boards which I later came to learn were designed by one of the Chinese’s lecturers students back in China. [Read More]
#stc  #microcontroller  #8051  #stcmcu 

Configuring Marantz Pro MPM 1000U in Linux

Recording audio off the Marantz Pro 1000U from terminal

Posted on December 12, 2017
The Marantz Pro MPM-1000U is a USB condenser mic for DAW recording or podcasting. It comes in as an entry level mic.It comes with a USB connection which was one of the feature that I wanted. This mic is designed to work on any PC with a descent USB interface and a software like Audacity. While thats good, I wanted to try out recording on termial and this is how far I have come in doing so. [Read More]
#marantz  #audio  #audacity  #arecord  #alsa 

Nairobi Linux User Group December 02 2017 Meetup

Last Meetup of Nailug in 2017 at Ona

Posted on December 2, 2017
Today was the last meetup of Nailug - Nairobi Linux User Group. As usual for the past few months, the meetup was held at Ona who have continued to support us bu giving us a space to hold our meetups. Today’s talk was about HTTP/2 which was presented by Kenneth Gitere from Ona. The topic was - HTTP/2 to be or not to be. Nailug, also written as NaiLug is a not-for-profit community dedicated to GNU/Linux, Free Software, Open Source and related topics. [Read More]
#nailug  #linux  #ona 

Pytudes

Python Programs for perfecting programming skills

Posted on December 1, 2017
“An étude (a French word meaning study) is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, of considerable difficulty, and designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill.” — Wikipedia This project contains pytudes—Python programs for perfecting programming skills. Some are in Jupyter (IPython) notebooks, some in .py files. You can view the files here, or clone the project, or run the notebooks online by clicking this button: [Read More]
#python  #programming  #jupyter notebooks 

Running Ranger From Spacemacs

This layer brings Ranger features to Spacemacs

Posted on November 30, 2017
Ranger, developed by Roman Zimbelman is an ncurses based powerful filemanager for UNIX-like systems. Its free relased under GNU GPL Licence. It can do what most GUI file managers can do with less effort. It was first released in 2010 the latest version is of 2017 February. And its written in Python. The coolest part is that its 260KB only, how about that :-) And yes I know that the photo above has no relation to Ranger, its the Nairobi National Park and I think it looks cool. [Read More]
#emacs  #spacemacs  #ranger  #linux