By T.K. Hareendran

International Electronic Design Freelancer • Technical Author • Hardware βeta Tester • Product Reviewer
Articles Written 466

Build Your Own NFC Keyring

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a unique technology for creative marketing and mobile payments. Most of the recent smart phones support NFC so you can find that there is more fun and practical stuff you […]

ACS712 – An Introduction

Often a need arise to add a current sensor in your project, when you’re making an electric energy meter or a master/slave control switch for instance. Picking out the right theme for monitoring current consumption […]

Reflect-A-Bird™ & An Elaboration

Recently I got nothing but an inspiration from a pretty nice commercial product “Reflect-a-Bird™ Bird Deterrent” (https://www.absolutebirdcontrol.com/reflect-a-bird-detrerrent). The device from Absolute Bird Control, Inc. is a silent wind-powered spinning visual bird deterrent that effectively scares […]

DTDC Switch for Outdoor/Street Lamp

Recently many readers demanded a simple automatic dusk-to-dawn controller (DTDC) electric switch circuit for real world outdoor/street lighting applications. I looked all the day and finally designed and built this little circuit based on easily […]

Learn to Use ublox NEO-6M GPS Modules

There exist many minuscule GPS-modules suitable for use in microcontroller projects. In this article I will explain how to use the far-famed ublox NEO-6M GPS module with your GPS projects. For a quick start, you […]

Digital Switch for Medical Examination Lamp

Light plays a major role in the medical field, being needed to provide faithful renderings of the observed facts. Nowadays, a broad range of examination lamps (also called as observation lamps) are available for almost […]

Backpack NeoPixel LED Safety Light

Let me start with the photo of a cheap Backpack LED safety light from China. It’s undoubtedly a beautiful and pretty useful safety gizmo for walkers and wheelers. The battery operated red LED ring used […]

WeMos® D1 mini – An Introduction

Recently, I got another packet from Banggood as usual from China warehouse. Inside the packet, there’s a WeMos® D1 mini module – this time its version 2.2.0. I’m happy to note that it’s still alive […]