Tagged: COVID-19
Echo and Pathu
Well it’s been more than a month since Paathu entered the scene. Echo has been here since the beginning of COVID-19 lock-down. Lock-down without them would have been worse. She shows her love a lot. Unlike Echo she is in your face. But she is also a lot younger and this is the...
Reverse Engineering A Bluetooth Low Energy Oximeter
Just as COVID-19 is spreading in Bangalore. I got an Oximeter which can measure SpO2. SpO2 is also called as oxygen saturation, According to Wikipedia Oxygen saturation is the fraction of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin relative to total hemoglobin (unsaturated + saturated) in the blood. The human body requires and regulates a very precise and...
Climate Change and Coders
I was checking the air quality reports of Bangalore for the period of 3 months when we were under strict lock-downs due to COVID-19. Bengaluru’s air has been doing much better under the lock-down. I am sure this is not a unique case. According to the analysis by CREA, for the Health and...
Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2020 – Results
It wasn’t easy to decide this year. There were more applications than usual. And I was confused quite a bit due to COVID-19. But at last, here we are with the results of Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2020. This year, again, we have three grantees. We also have an anonymous1 donor of INR.20K....
COVID-19 Lockdown: The Humanitarian Crisis
The case of 12-year old Jamalo, who was walking from Andhra Pradesh to her village in Bastar (Chhattisgarh) collapsing 11 km short of her village was widely reported. However, there are many such heartbreaking cases. News reports tracked during the ongoing lockdown suggest that more than 300 people died because of the lockdown:...
