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Quectel GNSS samples received — ready for integration into the marine vessel monitoring system.

  It Started With a Hardware Limitation I have been using Quectel GNSS modules in my designs for a while. They are reliable, well-documented, and the support ecosystem is solid. But the module I had been using had one problem that I kept running into: no external antenna support . For most projects that is a minor inconvenience. For a marine vessel monitoring and control system , it is a non-starter. A vessel hull blocks sky view, antenna placement is critical, and the difference between a clean fix and no fix at all often comes down to whether you can mount the antenna where it actually has line of sight. An integrated antenna in a sealed enclosure below deck simply does not cut it. So I went directly to Quectel. The Conversation With Quectel I reached out through their official sample request channel. I was not expecting much — most component manufacturers have a standard process: fill out a form, wait, get a few uni...

My first Android App

Hi everybody, i have found a cool website to built Android applications in a split second. Yeah in seconds you can learn how to code for your android device. Since i am not a fan of Apple's products i will not talk about IOS stuffs. This is built by MIT and its one of the best product i found to develop for Android devices. Within few days i learnt the basic and later built an wonderful app to control my Bluetooth modules. This is how the coding looks like. Look how easy it is, just like a puzzle. For advance projects like these you need to refer to Android guide to know how some phone modules work with the command. Here is some pictures of my app. This a good and useful software for kids and schools. Instead teaching bullshit we can teach this to increase mind activities / practical involving others to learn coding for there daily use. For example i built this app to switch on/off light, you can built an app to monitor your plants health. This test is done...

Solution for avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00

Its been a while that i have noticed an error that sometime frustrates. When i first start using Arduino Uno and flash custom ATMEGA328P firmware i have faced tons of problems and each of them ease my work when i found a cause and solution for that. Most of Arduino users faced this and thousands of posts were in the forums related to avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00 error. Some solutions in the forums are not much solved the issues. Earlier i faced this when i built a custom PCB with ATMEGA328P-AU. ATMEGA328P-AU  After flashing the firmware via ICSP (In circuit Serial Programming) Then i used FTDI serial to load the sketch. Finally the error occurs and the whole project came to a halt. Screen shot of Arduino IDE I have spent most of the time troubleshooting and found solutions for it. I will state what i have found, which cause this error normally. Wrong device selected from the IDE PCB/Circuit designing issues. FTDI module / Driver & ...