About

Hi, My name is Jatinderjit Singh. I am a born techie and a software engineer by profession. This blog is a diary record of my experiments and research in various fields of electrical engineering and computer science. You can read more about me on my homepage or just email me.

The iHabitat project

Since long I wanted to work on a home automation system. My vision is a system that is easy to deploy, intelligent and makes sense. Along with automation something that also takes care of the security of the house. And all that functionality bundled together with a strong focus on communication and accessibility from the [...]

December 1st, 2008 | Category: Embedded Systems, Home Automation | One comment

TeMo - Telerobotics over Mobile packet data services

TeMo is a tele-operated mobile internet robot. While other internet robots mostly use WiFi (or a nearby PC with an internet connection), TeMo connects to the internet using Mobile packed data services (e.g. GPRS / EDGE / UMTS / HSDPA). The advantage is virtually unlimited mobility for the robot.
Simply put, TeMo is a robot that [...]

January 23rd, 2008 | Category: Digital Communication Systems, Embedded Systems, Robotics | 5 comments

Building a basic robotic platform

Want to build (not buy) a basic robot that can move around, has a robotic arm and can be programmed to do what you want ? I built the following one using Lego technic blocks, some servo motors and a microcontroller. Why not use the Lego Mindstroms kit, you ask ? Well you can either [...]

October 15th, 2007 | Category: Embedded Systems, Robotics | 10 comments