Thursday, December 4, 2014

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Project
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1.
Micro controlled marker that writes on white board.
Completed as a team of 4 in 2000, as part of design challenge in university. Second Prize. Picture is somewhere in archived HDD can be provided on request.

Implementation of JPEG2000 standard
Final Year Project. Team of 3. 2002
2.
Light following model car
Just for fun. 2001
3 .
173Mhz and 433 Mhz based range testing system for research.
Part of SECOAS Project. Please refer to “Experimental investigation of wireless link layer for multi-hop oceanographic-sensor networks”
Published in IEE Letters
4.
Board design for 173 Mhz Modem integration with PIC microcontroller and RF Power Amplifier
Part of SECOAS Project 2003
5.
Firmware for TDMA based wireless protocol
Part of SECOAS Project 2003-2005
6.
Redesign of Sea Mammal datalogger Tag
Designed in 2005
7.
Bluetooth Integration for over-the-air configuration for Sea Mammal datalogger. Based on Blueradios modules.
This was done to get rid of the connector for water-proofing.2007
8.
Snap based GPS design. GPS position in 25 mS.
Firmware was written by third party, I designed the PCB and fine-tuned the firmware to work for our product. 2007-2010
9.
Seal emulator/tester
A tester that would emulate seal behaviour to the tag. Used for accelerated life testing of PCBs and firmware. 2008
10.
Accelerometer Logging mini tag
This project involved measuring ADC on three axis and storing it in an SD card. Used PIC18F8722. 2008/2009
11.
SRDL Mini tag
Miniaturised the PCB of the SRDL tag circuit to half its normal size for customers’ requirements.2007
12.
SRDL Nano tag
Further reduction in size of the product 2008/2009
13.
SRDL Solar-Mini
Solar charged Mini tag that used Solar panels and Lithium batteries to work over much longer periods than normal products. 2009/2010
14.
Bluetooth Tag to Tag communication project
I enabled Bluetooth communication between and RFID data logger and a GSM Telemetry device. The RFID reader was on seal back and counter number of fish eaten by seal and then transmitted this information to GSM tag to be sent back to base as there was no other way at that time to get this information back. 2010/2011
15.
Argos Satellite transmitter
I was electronics engineer for the team designing a miniature (postage stamp size) Argos satellite transmitter at 416 Mhz and 0.5Watts using RF synthesizer, PIC 18f45J50 and RFMD power amplifier. 2010/2011
16.
Electronics to support Iridium Satellite communication using satellite modem
I designed some of the power supply circuitry to enable the sea mammal tags to communicate over Irridim Satellite modem 2010
17
TS-TAG sub-miniature GPS data logger
First product developed at E-Shepherd. At under 1.1 grams it was the worlds lightest GPS logger in 2009. Pictures at www.e-shepherd.co.uk  2009
18
TM-TAG miniature GPS data logger
Slightly bigger than the TS-TAG the TM tag incorporated an embedded antenna and hourly schedule capability. Pictures at www.e-shepherd.co.uk 2009/2010
19
TTX-TAG Bluetooth based remote download tag
Slightly larger than TM-TAG this one had Bluetooth in it to enable it to download data remotely
20
TTX-Base-station
A base-station that runs under Windows app control to look for known tags and download data from them when they are in range. Windows app written in VB by third party under contract. 2010/2011
21
Project Adama
GPRS based GPS tracker under 15 gram completed weight 2010/2011
22
Bus tracker
Long life bus tracker designed for a company called Basemap. Basemap used this data to improve bus routes for Essex County Council 2012
23
Solar Boat GPS Datalogger
Designed under contract for researchers in Oman. 2012
24
RFID reader antenna for chemical test-tube detection
Design of very directional RFID antenna to avoid misreads in RFID-enabled test tube panels   2006
25
Quad LED driver firmware using Two ATTINY
I was given hardware with Atmel ATTINY microprocessors and I wrote control software for 4 channel LED driver. 2011
26
Jennic/NXP based LED light control
Designed a 30 light demo controlled wireless using NXP JENNET protocol 2011
27
Telegesis Zigbee based LED light control
Designed 10 light demo using telegesis based protocol. It was shown in “Light and Building” trade show in Frankfurt 2012
28
Zigbee Home Automation based large scale network
Designed hardware and software for Zigbee Home automation enabled light control that enables one Zigbee gateway to control 500 lights. Demo of 500 lights being  controlled is running in Lab. 2012
29
GPS sheep tracker
Prototyped and now production ready. Collaborated with Mechanical design engineer to design the housing to accommodate products already made. 2012
30
21 Channel Potentiostat
A device used in medical research. I designed PCB, digital electronics and firmware, Lance did the Analog Design
2006/2007
31
Rack Mount - 16 Channel Potentiostat
Similar to 21 Channel system but major size reduction and single PCB design. Lance did analog design. Major Issues: reduce inter channel noise due to miniaturisation. 2008
32
48 Channel FRA (Frequency response Analyser, its type of a Potentiostat)
Super size FRA using motherboard and two daughterboard concept. Major issue: reduce inter channel noise due to the number of channels present.  Also, power supply design and PCB design were major overhauled. PIC18f8722. 2010
33
8 Channel Potentiostat
Another variation of the multi channel Potentiostat. 2007/2008
34
Door Lock Controller
Two key pads, one OLED screen, two motors and a reed switch to control door lock from both sides with external interface to GSM. 2014
35
Dextarity Tester for Newcastle University
Test equipment for Medical research in to kids with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy. Completed for Newcastle University for AT Services . Two units made. One on 2013 and another in 2014.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Here is Diagram of lexus brake taken from document L-CP-9LB-0001-W1

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

This is a short review of the only Halal Nandos in Scotland (as of 16/09/2009)

Nandos in Springfield Quay in Scotland is the only halal Nandos in Scotland. It is usually quite busy except for in afternoons. At night you can be in the ordering cue for a long time. As it is halal, a lot of customers are Muslim  The environment is quite nice. Child seats and baby change is available. My personal favourite is the extra hot full platter with spicy chips and extra hot sauce, followed by a toffee cheese cake. The best way to reach it from outside of Glasgow is to leave M8 at junction 20 towards Springfield quay.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Sunday, February 26, 2012

How to install GTranslate for Joomla

1. Download GTranslate from http://gtranslate.net/
2. Go to joomla admin and login
3. Go to extension->extension manager
4. Select and upload the file you downloaded, com_gtranslate....zip
5. It will be now installed.
6. Go to extensions>module manager
7. Select Gtranslate and change the following settings

  • Status-> published
  • access-> public
  • at bottom of page in menu selection block-> module assignment-> on all pages
  • Now go back to top of page and select position. There are lots of options and some of them dont make sense, so just try differnt ones until you find suitable one. Position-12 (beez-20) worked for me.
  • Every time you change position, press save and in other window of browser go check where the translate tool has appeared.
  • once done, click on save and close
Best of luck




Thursday, January 12, 2012

apple battery sizes

ipod -   shuffle ---- G2 ----  616-0278 --- 23.5*23.5*3mm ---- 3 gm --- 200mah
ipod - shuffle ---- G1 ---- 616-0212 --- 20.5*31.5*5.5 ---- 6-12 gm --- 250mah
ipod - nano  ---- G2 ---- 616-0407 --- 61.00 x 22.00 x 2.00 mm --- 50gm ==400mah