Nasir's Blog

It is been a awhile since I wrote something technical. At some point I wanted to build Linux distribution from scratch. After a short research I found Linux From Scratch project. I learned a lot from it.

I’m now more involved with embedded development and I wanted to do the same, but for embedded environment. My idea is to use just Linux Kernel, BusyBox and initramfs. Turns out I’m not the only one who wanted to do that. There is tons of information about that. The one I found where a bit outdated, as this one will be too, in fairly short time. I want to use the latest stable Linux Kernel and BusyBox. I spend almost five hours, spread on couple days to get it to work. Linux Kernel 2.6.27.4 and BusyBox 1.12.1 is what I used.
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Thunderbird, Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar is a great way to manage your GMail and Google Calendar. But there is one thing that is missing for me, my favorite feature in Google Calendar, SMS notifications. The Provider for Google Calendar add-on, unfortunately don’t support that.
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For some time now I have seen this weird thing here and there, today finally I decided to do some research about it.

QR Code is something similar to bar code, but it can contain much more information. Guess what I like it. If you visit my blog you will find it on the right side or portfolio and there you can find it on the left side.
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The simple VHDL projects that I wanted to publish are way too boring so this is a less simple project.

A counter which counts simply from 0 to 9999 in decimal range, not hex or binary. Why 9999 well I have four hex-displays on my board.
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VHDL is my latest acquired skill. A couple weeks ago the class programmable hardware started and it was about FPGA and VHDL. I love it so that is way I purchased the Nexys 2 board. I am still a beginner in VHDL, that is why I want to practice more with it this coming three or four weeks.

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