Electronics

The admission for Diploma in Industrial Electronics proved of great help to me. It exposed me to the practical side of electronics. I did a lot of experimentation with circuits, designed circuits of my own, made PCBs at home by doing artwork and etching, did soldering of the circuits, tested them, troubleshooted them and optimized them. This made me skilled in real handling of circuits. I have even designed circuits to be interfaced with a computers parallel port and have written programs to drive them, everything on my own. I have assembled numerous circuits like amplifiers, radios, etc.

In the third year of the Diploma in Industrial Electronics, I was capable of repairing Radios. In 1999, I was successful in making a simple AM transmitter in the MW band whose signal could be received on a normal MW radio set!

I had designed a data logger for the measurement of temperature and light intensity variation during the total solar eclipse of 11th August 1999. A microprocessor development system (MDS), using the 8085 microprocessor, was used for logging the data. The program was written in assembly language. Driver circuits were constructed to interface the sensors to the MDS. A highly accurate hardware clock of 1 Hz frequency was also constructed for logging the exact time.

In September 2001, I developed a security system for a jewelry shop. It has 8 zones, any one of which when activated would set the two alarm ringing. It has many more features.