Ask: Lack of grounding may cause USB mouse to go nuts!

This is the third USB mouse that has gone nuts. After roughly what may be two, three months of buying and using, the mouse starts to frequently send two signals instead of one back to the CPU when the left button is clicked. The end result is that instead of a single click, [...]

VLSI: What a joke!

If I say “we’ve been fortunate enough to have been offered the course VLSI this semester“, I am sure I would be considered, by classmates, as going out on a limb to suggest that.
Yes, VLSI is a great Engineering course, but only in the way it is taught in most other foreign universities.  In my [...]

Night Vision Device!

The working principle behind a night vision device centres around the use of InfraRed (IR) LEDs. The light emitted by an IR LED, when boucned off of an object, can easily be seen by a camera. Human eye can only perceive visible light, not IR, or UV, or for that matter, any other form of [...]