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Novel Gesture Controlled Autonomous Drone | Part 1: Flight Computer

One idea that I’ve had is to create my own mini autonomous drone, but controlled using a novel gesture-based control system, using a separate pair of gloves. In this post, I will be

1 min read February 20, 2025
Miscellaneous

How I started to Build my website locally

For a long time (3-4 years!) I have been updating this website either using the online GitHub editor, or cloning it locally and pushing updates. But, today I said enough is enough, overcame

2 min read October 12, 2024
Plane

My Cheap & Simple Optocoupler based DC Motor Driver for 3.3v Devices

So, as you know, I have been dealing with foam hobby planes for a long time. And I have finally decided to build a mini club flier to help me train for flying

3 min read October 04, 2024
Arima

Future Works & Next Steps

In the previous lessons, we have learned topics from Autocorrelation, Moving Average, and Differencing, to ARIMA Models and Multiple Regression. And we have applied these methods to various datasets, to better understand how

2 min read September 10, 2024
Arduino

How to get started with Engineering | Sensors & Actuators

One of the main applications of an Arduino board is by utilizing various sensors, actuators, and other devices Common Sensors Below are simple introductions to simple/common sensors for Arduino. These usually don’t require

8 min read July 15, 2024

Books for Learning Technical Topics

For a long time, I have been gathering resources to help me with my goals and projects. Specifically, I have been slowly growing my collection of technical books, from 6th grade to the

6 min read July 14, 2024
Arduino

How to get started with Engineering | Hello World Example

In this lesson, we will implement our first Arduino Project: our very own Hello World example!! Required Materials: Arduino Board (with USB cable) Breadboard Male-Male Jumper Wires Arduino IDE 1 LED 1 1K

4 min read July 05, 2024
Arduino

How to get started with Engineering | Arduino Programming

Now, if we want to be a good engineer in this day and age, we need to also know Computer Science. Arduino especially relies on this as this is how we will program

5 min read June 27, 2024
Arduino

How to get started with Engineering | Electronics

Welcome back; here I will introduce you to the fundamentals and basics of Electronics for Engineering. To follow along, please refer to the introductory lesson to find the link to an Arduino Kit,

8 min read June 19, 2024
Arduino

How to get started with Engineering

Hi, my name is Burak Ayyorgun and I wanted to share how I started with Engineering and give advice how you guys might want to start. The main goal is to find what

4 min read June 10, 2024
Arima

Part 2 - Implementing a Full ARIMA model from SCRATCH!

Here, we will build off the last lesson and properly implement an Autoregressive, Integrated, Moving Average Model. As usual, I will be using the same data as in the previous lesson. The fundamental

9 min read March 15, 2024
Arima

Part 1 - What are ARIMA models and how do they work?

Here, we will learn what ARIMA models are, how they work, and how they can be useful; we will also implement an Autoregressive model from SCRATCH!

6 min read March 07, 2024
Arima

Using Scikit & SKtime for Forecasting

Before we take a deep dive into how ARIMA models work, I wanted to show you some alternatives, mainly using Python ML libraries to do the prediction/forecasting. In this lesson, we will be

6 min read February 24, 2024
Arima

What is Stationary Data & Unit Root Tests

To prepare for the next lesson, I wanted to provide a quick lesson explaining what stationary data is. What is Stationarity By textbook definition, a stationary time series (a dataset which is a

6 min read February 15, 2024
Arima

Gradient Descent & Linear Regression

In this post I will be introducing the math behind Gradient Descent and how it works!

8 min read February 05, 2024
Arima

Part 2 - Autocorrelation, Moving Average, & More

A simple introduction to Seasonal Trends, Decompositions, and many more! This is the second and last part of the lessons on Autocorrelation, Moving Averages, Trends, and Decompositions. For the code used in this

7 min read January 25, 2024
Arima

Part 1 - Autocorrelation, Moving Average, & More

A simple introduction to Autocorrelation, Moving Average, and in the second part, an introduction to STL Decomposition, Seasonal Trends, and much more!

7 min read January 15, 2024

NeuralBike Update

Today I finally found the time to finish the pcb of the main controller for the Crash detection project. I have been working on this in the background for the past few weeks

1 min read November 05, 2023

BikeCrash Test/Sim

I am doing a research project where I need inertial data of bicycle crashes. Currently, no open source data exists on this topic; so I tasked myself with getting the crash data myself.

2 min read September 02, 2023

Raspberry Pi Cam PanTilt

After wanting to do experiment with AI on my Raspberry Pi 4, I decided to build a Servo actuated Pan-tilt mount from scratch. For the past few days, I have been working hard

2 min read July 22, 2023
Plane

Plane Project Update | Fixing UART Communication Problems on SAMD11

Ok, I have been very busy at school, and I was also spending a lot of time fixing the brocken pieces from the last crash, which took MONTHS!!!

5 min read July 01, 2023

My Chemistry Paper on Photoresistors

Recently, I had to write a short paper in my Advanced Chemistry class related to a chemistry topic I am interested in. And since I have a huge interest in electronics, I thought

1 min read December 16, 2022
Plane

Plane Project: Designing the Flight Computer

To fly and eventually control my glider plane, I will need to build some sort of flight controller. Design Requirements When designing this board, there are a few things to think about: Needs

2 min read May 19, 2022
Plane

Introducing the Plane Project

Welcome everyone!! In this post, I would like to introduce you guys to my long held dream: to build an autonomously flying high-altitude, long range, airplane! And to make things more interesting, it

2 min read February 15, 2022
Opencv

OpenCV Color Finder

Welcome back; here I want to quickly show a short script that will output the color at a given pixel. Interesting? Here is the script I am talking about: import cv2 import numpy

1 min read October 31, 2021
Opencv

OpenCV Trackbars

Welcome back, in this lesson I wanted to show you how to use TrackBars in OpenCV. OpenCV provides functions to use trackbars, the only thing we need to do is to pass a

1 min read October 22, 2021
Opencv

OpenCV MouseCLick

Hello, in this post I wanted to share how to utilize mouse clicks in OpenCV. We will be writing our own functions to implement this: import cv2 print(cv2.__version__) evt=0 def mouseClick(event,xPos,yPos,flags,params): global evt

1 min read September 25, 2021
Opencv

OpenCV ROI Update

I quick update; I got the ROI (non-grayscaled) to move around the frame. Here is the code, I highly suggest you run it yourself: import cv2 print(cv2.__version__) width=640 height=360 snipW=120 snipH=60 boxCR=int(height/2) boxCC=int(width/2)

1 min read September 18, 2021
Opencv

OpenCV UPDATE + ROI

Hey, welcome back to another OpenCV update. Today I will be talking about two seperate things, that I have combined in one post.

2 min read September 03, 2021
Opencv

I want to learn OpenCV and AI

I have taken a crash course in Python, and I have now found an interest in Artificial Intelligence. And this is how I am going to start.

1 min read August 03, 2021
Pid

What is PID?

This is a quick post on what PID is and how to implement it.

4 min read June 15, 2021
Pid

Self-Balancing Arduino Robot

I have been wanting to make this project for some time now. I have seen others do them with really expensive motors and devices and I wanted to test and see if I

6 min read June 14, 2021

Imu Measurments

For a long time I have always wanted to build robots that know their orientation. And to do that I will first need to learn how Inertial Measurment.

8 min read June 06, 2021

Simple Audio Amplifier

Here is a simple audio amplifier circuit. The BC337 transistor acts as the signal amplifier.

1 min read May 12, 2021

Bar Code Scan Arduino

*this was a long time ago so the date isn’t exact and I built this for a custom bar code.

1 min read April 27, 2021

SR latch Memory

This is just some super quick update about sr latchs and a quick schematic of one I built.

1 min read March 26, 2021

Nerf And Arduino

Hello, I wanted to share with you a small project I did. It involves a wearable, Arduino Powered, Nerf Gun!!

1 min read January 09, 2021
Electronics

Personal Door Alarm

This projects is the result of people entering my room unwanted or frequently. I am sure all of you have experienced family members who enter you room and don’t close the door on

4 min read October 05, 2020

Project Touch Delay

Enjoy!

1 min read October 02, 2020

Simple Oscillator

For almost the past 2 years, I have been trying to make a simple oscillator circuit without using a 555 Timer. I have tried various ideas with capacitors and transistor but I was

1 min read September 28, 2020
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