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Iron Man Plymouth Theme

This is an Iron Man theme I created by slicing some cool gif files I found online. You can download the theme and find the installation steps on my github account. Link

Reverse Engineer DDPAI Dash Cam Firmware

I have been looking for a good mid range Dash cam for my car. I was thinking to integrate this to my custom build infotainment system. For this, there need to be some option to get live stream. I bought this DDPAI Mini Car Dash Camera from Amazon Link (Official site Link), but I was not sure whether I can access the live stream or not. The product looks good, companion app works smooth also, and there is live stream in the app. My goal was to figure out a way to get live stream so that I can use it in my program. May be have a look at it’s firmware and do some little hack if possible.

Smart Home Display IOT

This is a DIY smart display that you can embed in to your wall. You can control your smart appliance, set timer to control it, get weather info, and act as a cool clock. Let’s get straight into how I made it.

Raspberry pi Tips and Tricks

If you ever worked with raspberry pi, you know how many times you need google around to find a particular sulution. From enabling ssh first time to enabling uart speed, you need to google around and find the soulution that really works. This is a list of frequent things you may need to configure in raspberry pi. This assumes you are running Raspbian Stretch with desktop.

Blog using Jekyll | Github Pages with custom domain

This post talks about how you can setup a blog using Jekyll and host it using GitHub. Jekyll offers simple and blog-aware, static site generation. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server.