A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
In 2015 I had put together a simple script to check the status of various websites that were blocked (Censored) by ISPs (Internet Service Providers) in India for various reasons. It was a very simple script based on simple rules. Idea was to get a sense of censorship in India. After a while...
A universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) is the most popular protocol used for talking to a computer device over serial port. What I am talking here is not exactly UART in traditional sense. It’s an emulation of serial port over BLE. It’s not part of profiles defined by Bluetooth SIG. It’s a custom defined...
Its been a long time dream to involve children with DataMeet activities. We just conducted a Data journalism workshop with children. In this Open Data Camp which is basically our yearly get together we wanted to get them started with environment sensors. Planning started a bit back, but we did change the plan...
You know I love ESP8266 and Python. So when the opportunity came to be part of it, I did in a small way on Kickstarter. The project team has been truly great. They send almost monthly updates on what they are working on and since they got enough funding they went open from...
I really loved playing with circuits while I was in college. After college I started programming. I really love programming. In last few years electronics has become as much fun as programming. I really didn’t want to miss a chance where I could do both. i.e solder my circuit and programs for it....
This would be my third sensor in the city. You already know about the first two. This one is part of much bigger community called Sense Your City. As part of Sense your City, 100 people in 7 cities across the world will build and install the sensors. These sensors will measure air...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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