Dev Notes

Jul 24, 2026

#DGCA #Drone #Robotics #India #Regulation #TeensyPilot

I Got My DGCA RPAS Pilot Certificate. Here's What the Exam Doesn't Teach You.

I cleared the DGCA Remote Pilot Certificate exam last week through Sanskardham Drone Academy, Ahmedabad — a DGCA-approved Remote Pilot Training Organisation. The programme ran across five days total for the Small category certificate (drones...

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Jul 14, 2026

#KiCad 8.0 #BMS #BQ76920 #PCB #ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 #Power Electronics

Designing a 4S Smart BMS with the BQ76920: Every Trap I Hit and How I Fixed It

Most BMS tutorials show you a finished board. This one is about the schematic stage — specifically, every mistake I caught and fixed before sending a board to fabrication, where they would have cost real...

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Jun 30, 2026

#Robotics #Embedded Systems #Microcontrollers #Arduino #ESP32 #Teensy #Raspberry Pi

The Embedded Stack for Robotics: A Practical Hierarchy from 8-bit AVR to Linux Companion Computers

Every robotics project eventually forces the same question: which processor do I actually need? Browse any forum and you will find answers anchored to brand loyalty — “just use an Arduino,” or “Raspberry Pi can...

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Jun 15, 2026

#Meta #Jekyll #GitHub #Portfolio

First Build Log Setting Up the Jekyll Architecture

This is the first build log entry. The portfolio has been migrated from plain HTML to a Jekyll-powered architecture for GitHub Pages.

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