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So I am back with my urge to do something on the hardware side, while being the regular expert in software, micro-controllers are the way to go. So I have some coding involved and less wires and components to debug in a different way this board just works, and the LED shows that it really does :p A lot more to come in this category though.

My Car is Intel Inside it is equiped with a customized computer for a car.

Main Features:

• Controllable by any consumer remote control, using DSP Line-in lirc IR receiver
• Full navigation system with maps
• Mandrake Linux 9.0 power operating system
• 40 GB storage for unlimited MP3s / Videos
• Optimized audio player irmp3
• Internet access – GPRS
• High fidelity 2.1 sound

I have returned to the workbench after a long time in 2004. Apart from a game-port custom
controller my last work was in the labs for logic design, microprocessor interfacing,
and microprocessor architecture.
My major is computers so the masters degree is going pretty uneventfull, specially when
I have a specialization “Software Engineering”.
Anyways I dived in starting with the famous 8051 microcontroller with a couple of variants
and after the initial testing phase, I am now ready to go to unchanted waters.

TODOs and Ideas:

* A microkernel operating system for 8051 family to ease my application development

* Phone logger, to keep track of complete land line log like mobile phones
and apply provider rules to calculate monthly bills

* Car tracking and utility system (variation of car pc for extremely low power requirements)

* Serial to LAN hardware which can be used to connect a serial modem to a router (wireless)

* Home automation system with support for infra-red remote (with possibility of bluetooth)

Overview:

This API provides Object Oriented Mappings over J2ME’s standard RMS
Features:

• Developed on j2me-wtk and Nokia Series 60, testing on Nokia 3650
• MIDP 1.0, CLDC-1.0 Compliant, i.e. can be used on any kind of J2ME device

• Support for all J2ME primitive data types and their class representations
• Support for Vector which contains any of the supported types / classes
• Support for pseudo-floating point (MIDP1.0 has no float)
• Support for any class implementing the persistence interface
• Filters, Searchers, and sorters can be applied at retrieval time

Status:

• In production and being used in my other projects
• May not give full performance on phones with slow processors
• May not be an optimal solution on phones having limit on RMS size or low memory

TODOs:

• Write a benchmark program and publish results

Overview:

Currently un-named, its goal is to provide a chart drawing package based on MIDP 1.0 specifications. Another goal is to make this package open-source, see help required below.
Status:

• Line charts are complete
• Pie charts are complete
• Bar and Bar with Line charts are working but require some minor changes
• Data can be given in categories and multiple lines and bars are drawn
• An area of the screen can be given for charting while application uses the rest of the screen
• With a sample application the obfuscated jar is 16 KBytes and takes 52 KBytes heap memory on the Nokia Series 60 emulator
• Axes drawing is partially working (lables and markers are missing)

TODOs:

• Customizations in drawing charts (Point circles, Axes stepping, lines in BarCharts, etc.).
• Chart titles, Axes titles, Data titles, Legend Charts for better explanation of charts.
• Finding a way to release the API in a way that source is hidden (till opensource efforts succeed).

Screen Shots:

Here you see a simple midlet on a Nokia 3650, with the charts occupying the whole j2me canvas area.

You’ll have to take a close look at this, but you’ll spot the person trying to live up to the title of this post

Thank you all for your support which makes this announcement even possible. The change log also identifies LINE numbers modified in the code and which file, so you may just want to update specific code to avoid reconfiguring everything. change log at: ChangeLog

UPDATE: I am now adapting WordPress for my site so this framework is sort of dead but if somebody still wants a very simple framework for a website, here is a copy.

Screen shot of my latest j2me work to write a chart plotting API, you can see it in the Nokia series 60 emulator and the Default Color phone emulator from j2mewtk. Although it can contain a lots of bells and whistles, I plan to keep it simple to be viewable on all screen sizes, however, applications need to check for color, gray scale or monochrome device.

A lot more to come in this category, I am in the process of converting my website (Sep 2007) so come back soon.

Karachi is Pakistan’s only metropolitan and biggest city. It is also one of the biggest cities in Asia. However big and developed do not always go together. Here you can see one of the slums of Karachi. This one in particular is a small slum right beside apartment complexes and hence a view from the 7th floor (mind the bars in the window). BTW this is in no comparison with Asia’s largest slum just 30 Kilo Meters from this point.

UPDATE: this thing was destroyed in spring of 2006.

My mobile photo blog is finally launched, which was built on this beautiful machine Stay tuned for some cool mobile snaps and news regarding this site, my projects, and anything I find interesting enough to post here