Saturday, August 18, 2018

My solar project and strange things

I was planned to build a small solar project few weeks ago. Purpose is to charge my mobile devices and power up night lamp in the bed room at night. All the major parts were purchased through eBay. Few weeks passed when they arrive.



Finally after two days effort solar panel placed near the bed room window. Battery pack was placed on top of the cupboard near the window. Solar panel began to work without any issues. 

Few days passed and suddenly I noticed that a squirrel started to come to bed room with dry leaves and building a nest behind the cupboard. After Several attempts of cleaning that mess finally squirrel gave up.

Afterward another strange behaviour  observed from our dog. It began to howl continuously. We changed his foods, bathed, gave medicine. But howling didn't stop. 
Finally I gave up and  stayed without listening to its howl. But I noticed that it tried to say something to us.

Few days ago  I realized bitter truth. In the solar panels module there was a step down transformer. This gadget produce very low frequency noise or hum. We can't hear that but dogs can. I was switched off solar panel and suddenly our dog became very calm and stopped howling. below image is that regulator. 




Friday, August 3, 2018

Hi flutter and dart



Today I tried Google new sdk flutter and programming language dart. according to Wikipedia "Flutter is an open-source mobile application framework created by Google. It is used to develop applications for Android and iOS, as well as being the primary method of creating applications for Google Fuchsia"

Fuchsia is a capability-based operating system currently being developed by Google


I think these three will change the path of the google within few years. Never tried fuchsia yet.



Flutter is pretty interesting. I was followed exact same steps as flutter installation guide said. The guide is very user-friendly and straight forward. No need rocket science or scary coding.


Actually It doesn't need to install anything. Its just like portable. But need code editor and I used android studio.


But it can run and execute through command prompt also. I never did something like this before.




Flutter has command called "flutter doctor". It scan whole environment and identify issues if something goes wrong. Some times issues fix by itself. Its very very useful.




And there is a demo app in Google play store. Take a look at "Flutter Gallery"







These interfaces and controllers very close to ios. I mean its look and feels like ios.

My conclusion is this. I dont know whether google continue this project or drop. But Im sure this will going to change the future of mobile Os. And this is a huge competitor for android Os. Because fuchsia is not based on Linux kernel. It is based on a new micro-kernel called "Zircon". Google is target fuchsia OS to run all the devices today we use.



There is few helpful videos i found in YouTube. This is a one of them