Author Archives: Tayeb

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About Tayeb

Engineer by training, with long-standing experience in technology, systems, and critical infrastructure. Writes occasionally about engineering, interfaces, and the practice of careful reasoning.

Designing, Simulating and Implementing a Simple Car Alarm on a Xilinx FPGA – Part II

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Tayeb

Objectives Implement a simple car alarm on a Xilinx Spartan 3 Starter kit board from Digilent, using the VHDL code exported from Multisim 12.0 in our first part of this tutorial, In this second part we will implement and test … Continue reading →

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Designing, Simulating and Implementing a Simple Car Alarm on a Xilinx FPGA – Part I

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Tayeb

Objectives Design and simulate a simple car alarm on NI Multism 12.0 and implement on a Xilinx FPGA Spartan 3 Starter kit board from Digilent. This is a two parts post. In this part we will design a logic circuit … Continue reading →

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Temperature Measurement with PSoC CY8C27643 and DS18B20 sensor

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Tayeb

Objectives: To build a thermometer, with a Cypress PSoC chip CY8C27643 and 1-wire DS18B20 temperature sensor. Introduction PSoC (Programmable System-on-Chip) is a family of integrated circuits made by Cypress Semiconductor. These chips include a CPU and mixed-signal arrays of configurable … Continue reading →

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BlueTerm app for most Android devices

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Tayeb

Introduction Having “hacked” into BlueTerm source code to make it work with my HTC clone,  known as A3 Star (HD2 T8585 clone), I thought why not make the mod in order that BlueTerm will function in most Android devices with … Continue reading →

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Overcoming Android bluetooth “blues” with Reflection method

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Tayeb

Introduction It is an Android problem: bluetooth does not function in a satisfactory manner. Having recently  started to “hack” into Android devices, and learning while doing, I was immediately confronted with the real world of something that does not fully … Continue reading →

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Android controlled robot via bluetooth

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Tayeb

Introduction Having recently bought an Android phone, I thought it would be a nice endeavour to control a robot with such a device. Android being open-source, attracts a large following, and hence there are many different ready-made solutions that can … Continue reading →

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Voice Operated Internet Control of a PICAXE (Part II)

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Tayeb

Objectives Experiment with more advanced features offered by Picaxe microcontroller. Measure temperature through a Maxim  DS18B20   sensor and obtain interactivity with recourse to audio response using text to voice offered by Google translate. The electronic setup A AXE050 board with Picaxe18M microcontroller … Continue reading →

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Voice Operated Internet Control of a PICAXE (Part I)

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Tayeb

Objectives Experiment with speech recognition in order to control an electronic device remotely through Internet, and demonstrate new functionalities of Google Chrome 11 browser supporting voice-to-text and HTML5. Introduction In April 2011, Google released version 11 of the Chrome browser. One of … Continue reading →

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Fixing: Fatal Error Call To Undefined Function Json_decode

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Tayeb

Introduction On moving to my new CentOS server (with php version 5.1.6), the php code for automatically twitting latest posts from my forums to Twitter stopped working (check the php code here  A Twitbot Using OAUTH). I will explain below … Continue reading →

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A Simple Home Alarm System with DAQ and Labview

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Tayeb

We all like peace of mind knowing that our home is safe when we are away, at work, or for whatever other reasons. The system here is a simple home alarm system with a motion sensor. The Labview virtual instrument … Continue reading →

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