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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #55
Date: 27-11-2021
Duration: 13 hrs 38 mins
Topics Discussed
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General introductions.
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We had a long discussion on NFTs and their usecase in the Art world. Most people were of the opinion that they are more for bragging rights than anything else.
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Krishna Gadia and Omkar Khair explained a few things about LEDs.
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Addressable LEDs.
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Different types of pins in LEDs. (Three and four pin LEDs.)
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The use of Pulse Width Modulation to regulate the colour of the LEDs and when to switch them on and off.
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An example project: 8x8x8 LED Cube
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Sreekaran Srinath had issues hosting his blog that Harsh Kapadia solved. It was due to a GitHub Pages misconfiguration. Sreekaran eventually moved on to Netlify after Vercel and GitHub Pages did not work out smoothly for him. The GitHub Pages issue was later revealed to be due to issues with Cloudflare using Airtel as a backbone (and Airtel illegally blocking sites hosted on GitHub pages.) in CatchUp 61.
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Ishan Sharma demonstrated Snap Camera by Snapchat.
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Harsh Kapadia asked for opinions on some changes made to his portfolio by Tushar Nankani.
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Kirchoff’s Current and Voltage Laws were talked about, various rules (Fleming’s Right and Left Hand Rules, Maxwell’s Right Hand Thumb Rule, etc) were discussed and P-N Junctions were also talked about.
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We went off on a tangent and talked about City Planning for quite some time. Surprisingly, it was an interesting conversation!
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Omkar Khair and Krishna Gadia reminisced about old technology that they used to use.
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Old authentication protocols such as LDAP and SAML have been been replaced by OAuth for SSO.
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Groove was renamed as Microsoft SharePoint and was bundled as a part of Office 2010.
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Omkar told us about times when he had seen Microsoft employees come in to customer’s offices to replace DLLs in the software to make it work past its limitations.
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Omkar showcased his Thin Client: eBox 3310.
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XRDP was also discussed.
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Sreekaran Srinath asked for advice on his future plans, job, work hours and slight Imposter Syndrome feeling.
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Omkar Khair and Krishna Gadia gave us a lot of extremely helpful philosophical advice. Some of the resources shared in the course of that chat:
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How to take constructive criticism and not let your ego come in the way.
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How to not let one’s love for something let oneself become delusional about it or too attached to it, because it will eventually lead to failure.
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Books suggested
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Projects Showcased
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Krishna Gadia showcased his hardware project using which he had made two games (Car Racer and Frog). He had used a Raspberry Pi with a Sense HAT mounted on it.
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