In 2018 I felt that I didn’t have enough OOP experience and decided to try myself in app development. Context: In Kazakhstan like in many post-Soviet countries, local government officials are not elected, but are assigned from the central government (which is, frankly, often corrupt and de-facto authoritarian). Consequently, the incentive landscape for the local …
(OLD 2018) Firestack // iOS & Android App Development Read More »
Just a small weekend project. Ideally, I was supposed to be able to see my breath or warm air flow off my hands. Might return to this in the future.
Here is a draft design of a simple buck converter. Hope you find it useful! PART I: DESIGN PART II: ASSEMBLY and AMENDMENTS
I wanted to practice my embedded control skills, so I made a simple constant-current LED driver. I assembled the hardware based on SDG Electronics’ design and wrote a C code for current control. This code senses current through LED and keeps it at an average value of 350mA by modifying the duty cycle of a …
A Simple Constant-Current LED Driver with Digital Feedback and Control (MSP430) Read More »
Let us consider the following two truths about the human condition and examine their implications. These truths are self explanatory as you shall see and can qualify as axioms. The world around us is extremely vast and complex. Any person’s cognitive resource is limited. The world manifests itself in different forms; many of these manifestations …
Common Denominator: Cognitive Resource Management Read More »
Check out my shortcuts in functional reverse engineering of common consumer electronic products. I hope you enjoy!
What could possibly unite lipids in a cell membrane and parallel universes? If you think of natural selection as the persistence of a system over time, you can extract this pattern of thinking and apply it to the fundamental physical phenomena as well. Let’s do some disambiguation first! One should pay special attention to phrasing …
As a part of Prof. Cheney’s Analog Devices and Techniques course at UMass Lowell, students are challenged to design and test an OpAmp from a base circuit. This is a group project and the team with a highest gain gets to skip the final for the class! Scott, Yassine, and I won this semester’s competition …
Designing and Testing an OpAmp from Discrete Transistors Read More »
I am building a plasma arc speaker using Proto G’s design. I named this project “бір мың құс” and engraved it on a wooden platform with a soldering iron. The name means “One Thousand Birds” in my language for the peculiar sound the plasma arc makes. It is a tribute to Sasuke’s Chidori which bears …
I built an analog synth using Ray Wilson‘s open source circuit designs and made an hour long analysis of its VCO circuitry to contribute to the open source community. This project could have been completed in a couple weeks, but took me around 9 months because I was working on it while also preparing for …