A Polyglot's Blog

Jul 05, 2023 Build An Electric Door Bell
We learnt about electromagnets probably at the beginning of our high school. The definition, if my memory serves me well, is when an insulated coil is wound around iron piece and the when the current is flown through this coil, a magnetic field is created. Note the word - insualated coil and we will come to this later again.

Jun 26, 2023 Strawberries In The Garden
I got a tiny strawberry sapling for £2 in April 2021 from a nursey near by. With no prior knowledge on how to grow strawberries, I left the plant, for over couple of weeks, in that tiny pot in which it was sold.

Jun 20, 2023 Growing Spinach And Tasting The Success
One of my new year resolutions is to grow at least 5 different vegetables/fruits/greens this year. The garden, at the beginning of the year was filled with unwanted shrubs and never-dying weeds and 3 feet grass. So this resolution, I thought, should help me take this as a challenge and fix it. Also, this is yet another baby step towards making my garden a better place eventually.

Jun 16, 2023 Automating The Greenhouse
If gardening is your passion, letting the plants die breaks you down. Especially when you buy seeds and not plants. You spend time and take extra care in germinating the seeds to begin with. While germinating is a hard process, keeping the young saplings alive is yet another major task. The job isn’t done yet if you do not make them grow and produce the yield. And every phase makes you feel that the previous phase was a little easy. Yet, you don’t give, if its your passion. Do you?

Jun 08, 2023 Building A Smart Switch Ep 01
Some of the ideas that we get, does not live longer, but if it does, it is worth implementing. Smart Switch is something, that I’ve been pondering on for quite sometime. I thought I’ll use this space to mark my progress on my journey towards building one. Perhaps I wouldn’t succeed in building one eventually, but what’s more important, for me, is the journey of knowledge. So, lets get started - this, ladies and gentlemen, is the Episode 01 of ‘Building a Smart Switch’

Jun 03, 2023 Let's Start With Solar Panels
This is one of my new year resolutions - to make a lamp work with a solar panel.

May 21, 2023 Multiplexed Display
You must have noticed this in movies or any other recorded videos - if the recorded video displays seven segment displays they always flicker.

May 14, 2023 Python Spiral Matrix
Yet another new challenge from the team. The ask is simple. Given a positive integer n, generate an n x n matrix filled with elements from 1 to n^2 in spiral order

May 02, 2023 Photography Innings 2.0
When I think about it, i’s been a decade; yes, time flies soon. I’ve been into some decent photography a decade ago. And then a lot of things came in. I had to work a little hard to fix my IT profession.

Apr 21, 2023 Winter, Garden And The Greenhouse
I lost most of my plants, especially the Indian vegetables to the freezing weather of 2021 winter. Germinating the seeds inside the house was easy compared to making them grow and survive a year. I thought I might have to spend some time to understand the weather pattern in the UK and then accordingly prepare myself.

Apr 17, 2023 Python Inline Loops
One of my teammates threw this challenge today. The challenge is simple and is as follows:

Mar 31, 2023 Ipl 2023
Like everyone, we do have a WhatsApp group, predomoinantly used to spread rumours, talk gossip and of course help out when needed. This year we thought we will have friendly betting on the IPL matches.

Feb 15, 2023 Enter Electronics
I was three when I could not talk properly. The school denied admission, forcing me to sit at home. Within few months from there, I apparently started talking a lot. I always had questions. I must be a pain.

Jan 22, 2023 My Gardening
2020 We moved to where we currently live. Around 3 months before, when we looked into the house, the first thing that struck me is the garden, its vastness, something beyond what I could possibly manage. The house, the built area, on the otherhand was comparably smaller. First thing that came to my mind, upon looking at the garden, was, “ok, lets create a patch for all Indian vegetables this side, and some experiments on the other.

Jan 17, 2023 New Year Resolutions
This isn’t new. I, or perhaps we all, pick some new year resolutions, towards the end of every year. Working on them isn’t as easy as they are picked. It took lot many years for me to get this wisdom 😁.

Jan 16, 2023 Hello World
Well finally this is a start. This, the blog, is one of my new year resolutions in 2023. And here I am.