Weekly Notes 37/2022
Echo and Pathu like long walks. I do like long walks with them. Usually, it isn’t easy in Bangalore with lots of traffic. But here in Thrissur, they go for long walks on pretty roads.
Tagged: Hardware
USB Foot Pedal or Switch as a Keyboard in Linux
I have been full-time at a standing desk for almost two years now. Except in long meetings (which happens rarely), I don’t sit. I wondered if I could do more with my feet than just standing. What if I could use a foot pedal? Some use cases could be scrolling up/down, muting/unmuting in a meeting, pausing/continuing in OBS, etc.
Mostly Harmless vckyb6 Keyboard – Making Online Meetings Better
many, I like online meetings. It gives me an option to attend an appointment from the comfort of my home office and listen to virtually anyone. Also, I have a very efficient way of taking notes. My home office – Tokyo, has good light and air. Any physical meeting in any other place won’t reach this level of comfort. That said, there are things that I still want to improve.
Vaio and Zenbook
My first personal laptop was a Sony Vaio (PCG-6C2L) ), which I bought for cash at Best Buy in Milwaukee. I used the advance cash Infosys had given me. It was 13.3 inch, very portable laptop. It had two hard disks. Once small 30GB SSD for OS and a bigger regular one for the...
Simple BLE Oximeter App using PHONK
In the past I would have used MIT AppInventor or Expo.io. Both have amazing ecosystems. It’s easy to build apps using them. But this time I wanted to use PHONK. I had used Protocoder before and had liked it. Also I have this idea of building small utility apps called applets (yes!), that...
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...
