Arduino Vs Sakura

Given below is a list of some differences between Arduino UNO and GR-Sakura boards.

1. GR-Sakura is 32-bit, but Arduino UNO is 8-bit
2. GR-Sakura has 55 input/output pin, but Arduino UNO 14 I/O pins
3. Sakura has Ethernet controller but Arduino has no Ethernet controller
4. GR-Sakura RX63N series 32-bit Microcontroller, but Arduino UNO has ATmega328 8-bit Microcontroller
5. GR-Sakura operating voltage is 5V, Arduino UNO is also 5V
6. GR-Sakura has flash memory of 1MB, but Arduino UNO has flash memory 32kB
7. GR-Sakura has 16 analog input pins, but Arduino UNO has only six analog input pins
8. GR-Sakura has 128kB RAM, but Arduino UNO has 2kB SRAM
9. GR-Sakura has clock speed 96MHz, but Arduino UNO has 16MHz clock speed
10. Sakura is a 68.58mmx53.34mm board, but Arduino is 68.60mmx53.40mm board
11. Sakura has library for RX microcontrollers (rxduino) but most of the commonly used libraries for Arduino are also compatible with Sakura board.
12. GR-Sakura has its own IDE like e2Studio and Web Compiler. Arduino board has Arduino IDE.
13. GR-Sakura board has through-hole pin headers compatible with Arduino apart from the pin headers for Rx63N,USB-host connector, LAN connector (RJ-45), and XBee.
14. GR-Sakura board is manufactured by Renesas Electronics Corporation, Japan,  but Arduino board originated from Italy

How To Install MATLAB 8.1 (R2013a) in Windows 8.1

Installing MATLAB 8.1 (R2013a) in Windows 8.1 is straight forward.

System requirements

1. Atleast 12GB hard disk free space and 2GB RAM

2. Turn off real-time protection in any Antivirus software. 

3. Click 'Setup.exe' option to start installation

4. Click 'Install without Internet connection'

5. Select License.lic file from C:\Program files\Matlab\R13a\license.lic

6. Click Finish

Note. 1. This is a typical installation steps in my case. There may be other more steps required in your system.

      2. Read the installation guide (PDF) file in the DVD before installation.

      3. It may take around 30 minutes for installation. If you have real-time protection anti virus enabled, it              may take around 12 hours for installation.

How To Partition Hard Drive in Windows 8.1 - Three Simple Steps

When you bought a new Laptop or PC, the hard drive may be 500GB, 1 TB or something. It may have only one partition (C: \ drive) or two drives C and D. The first thing you need to do is to make partitioning of the C drive.

Disk partitioning is essentially separating the hard disk into different sections or parts for storage. Separate partition of hard disk makes you manage your files conveniently in a more efficient way.

Note. Before doing this it is recommended to make a backup of your System Files. I used AOMEI Backupper.

There are mainly two methods to make hard disk partition in Windows 8.1, namely

Disk Management and a third-party free partition manager software. I prefer the third-party software because it is much more easier to handle and has more features.

I will explain you how to use “AOMEI Partition Assistant” a third-party software.

AOMEI Partition Assistant is a professional and advanced partition software, not only includes basic features, but also advanced features, such as Move Partition, Merge Partition, Disk Copy Wizard, etc.

Step1: Install AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition in your system. 

Step2: Launch the program and right click on C drive and select Create Partition option. 

In the pop-up window, adjusting the new partition size manually by dragging the slider bar leftwards or rightwards or entering the exact size. In addition, you can enter a partition label, select partition type (Primary or Logical) and file system by clicking "Advanced>>" option.

Step3: Click "OK". You can see that Windows 8.1 hard drive has a new partition. Click "Apply" to complete the operations.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard  can be downloaded from the link :  http://download.cnet.com/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-Standard-Edition/3000-18512_4-75118871.html?part=dl-&subj=dl&tag=button

How To Connect Tata Photon Plus(Huawei) To Windows 8.1

Here's simple steps:

1. Plug in the data card in USB port
2. Click on the "The PC" icon from Desktop
2. Right click on "CD Drive(F:) Tata Photon+" icon
3. Click the option to install it. It may take around 2-3 minutes depending on your system configuration
(mine is 4GB RAM and AMD Quad core)
4. After installation, it will prompt you for restarting the system
5. When you restart, system will detect Tata photon plus automatically
6. Now you can connect it as done in Windows Xp or Windows 7

How To Connect Tata Phone Plus(Huawei 156) In Ubuntu 12.04

How to install Tata Photon plus (156) in Ubuntu 12.04. Here is the step-by-step procedure for beginers:

1. Once you boot your Ubuntu, right click the networking icon from Desktop on top of the screen
2. Tick on Enable Networking
3. Select Edit Connection
4. Choose Mobile Broadband
5. In “New Mobile Broadband Connection” window screen click on Continue
6. Choose your country as India and then click Continue
7. Select your service provider as “Tata Indicom (Photon+)” option and click Continue
8. Next click “Apply“ button
9.  In the “Edit Tata Indicom(Photon +) Connection1” window select Mobile Broadband and enter the following without the double comma”

Number  as “#777”

Username as “internet”

Password as “internet”

10. Click on “Mozila Firefox” ferom desktop
11. Select Edit/Preferences/Advanced
12. In the “Connection settings” window select “No Proxy” option

This is not the end for your configuration. Explained below requires a bit experience in Linux.

13. Ensure that your plug in the Tata phone Plus data card in the USB of your PC/Laptop.

14.  Make sure that you have installed the following packages
* usb-modeswitch-data
* usb-modeswitch
15. To install them : Open the terminal Go to the directory where you've downloaded the packages and install the packages in the following order :

# sudo dpkg -i usb-modeswitch_*_amd64.deb
# sudo dpkg -i usb-modeswitch-data_*_all.deb

You should be able to connect the data card now.

Otherwise reboot the system and enable networking and Mobile Broadband options as mentioned above.

Feel free to write me for any queries.

Cheers!

                                

How to install Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 7

Install Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows for beginners

Requirements:

Windows operating system

Hard disk space atleast 40GB or above

Ubuntu 13.04 live DVD

1. Insert the Ubuntu 13.04 DVD in DVDROM and reboot system

2. Click Install Ubuntu

3. Select Install Ubuntu alongside with Windows

4. Click “Install Now”

5. Select your location/region

6. Continue/English(US)/Continue/Type your name and computer/Continue

It will take about 30 minutes depending on your system speed and configurations

How to get your root password for the purpose of installing other software packages

1. Open terminal by clicking Ctrl-Alt-T

2. On the prompt type sudo -s

3. It will display [sudo] password for sani: (type password here)

4. root@sani:~#

Or

$ sudo passwd root

[sudo] password for sani:

Enter new UNIX password:

Retype new UNIX password:

Password : updated password successfully

sani@sani-desktop:~$

How to edit grub to change TIMEOUT

Type at the prompt: sudo -s

root@sani-desktop:~# gedit /etc/default/grub

You will see the window given below:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0

#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0

GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true

GRUB_TIMEOUT=10

GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Change 10 to -1 at the following line as below

GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1

Note this will let the system wait indefinitely unless you select either Windows or Ubuntu during booting.

Now do as follows:

Ctrl-S  - this will save the changes done just now

Ctrl-q -To quit the window

sudo update-grub – This will apply the changes made

Reboot the system

Install Ubuntu 13.04 in Windows 7 Using VMware

How to Install Ubuntu 13.04 in Windows 7 Using VMWare

Using VMware Player, you can launch Ubuntu from Windows desktop without rebooting the system. Life become so easy as you can switch off or on the Ubuntu OS. For that you need atleast 2GB RAM and 30GB Hard disk. Though Ubuntu image requires less than 5GB, its always good to have larger space.

Step-by-step procedure

1. Install Windows 7

2. Download Ubuntu Image from http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=e0a9cf8f37f7c834e960c05d0503f9d2be4c18c1

3. Store Ubuntu image in a drive having sufficient space.

4. Download VMware 5.02 from http://www.vmware.com/support/player50/doc/player-502-release-notes.html

5. Install VMware Player from the Windows.

6. To start Player on a Windows host system, select
Start > Programs > VMware Player

7. Click on Create a New Virtual Machine

8. Give the path where Ubuntu image is located. The detail for installation and configuring the VMware can be found on the link: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/desktop/vmware_player50.pdf

9.Next time when you launch the VMware, you can select "Open Virtual Machine" and select Ubuntu

10. Click Play Virtual Machine to open the Ubuntu

11. You click on 'Edit Virtual machine settings' for settings like memory specification, accessing the Windows partition disks, etc.

12. To switch off the VMware just click on 'X' button on the top right side.

How to Install Ubuntu 13.04 in Windows 7 Using VMWare

How to Install Ubuntu 13.04 in Windows 7 Using VMWare



Using VMware Player, you can launch Ubuntu from Windows desktop without rebooting the system. Life become so easy as you can switch off or on the Ubuntu OS. For that you need atleast 2GB RAM and 30GB Hard disk. Though Ubuntu image requires less than 5GB, its always good to have larger space.

Step-by-step procedure

1. Install Windows 7

2. Download Ubuntu Image from http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=e0a9cf8f37f7c834e960c05d0503f9d2be4c18c1

3. Store Ubuntu image in a drive having sufficient space.

4. Download VMware 5.02 from http://www.vmware.com/support/player50/doc/player-502-release-notes.html

5. Install VMware Player from the Windows.

6. To start Player on a Windows host system, select
Start > Programs > VMware Player

7. Click on Create a New Virtual Machine

8. Give the path where Ubuntu image is located. The detail for installation and configuring the VMware can be found on the link: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/desktop/vmware_player50.pdf

9.Next time when you launch the VMware, you can select "Open Virtual Machine" and select Ubuntu

10. Click Play Virtual Machine to open the Ubuntu

11. You click on 'Edit Virtual machine settings' for settings like memory specification, accessing the Windows partition disks, etc.

12. To switch off the VMware just click on 'X' button on the top right side.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

A disk read error occured
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

Often you come across the above message when you update operating system in dual boot system: Windows 7 and Linux like Ubuntu 13.04.
Your Ubuntu is working well but cannot boot Windows 7. You can correct this problem just by modifying the grub.cfg file in Ubuntu as follows:

Note that you cannot directly modify grub.cfg file. But there is a way to do it as explained below.

First you need to check the grub.cfg file. In Ubuntu13.04, you can see this file by clicking Files/Computer/boot/grub/grub.cfg

The grub.cfg file starts with the following text.

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
 ...........
.............

Under "### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### " you may see the insmod as ldm.
The set root was set to /ldm/(lotofhexnumbers)/volume1.

In my system, Windows 7 is installed in first partition and Ubuntu in second partition drive. 

You can edit above two lines from the root.
Go to terminal sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Change the two lines as given below:

insmod part_msdos

set root='(hd0,msdos1)'

One way to modify grub.cfg is to edit 40_custom file under etc/grub.d/40_custom
But the easiest way is to use the command sudo -w /boot/grub/grub.cfg 

Save it, reboot the system and selecting the Windows will boot normally.

Fresh Installation of Windows XP

Fresh Installation of Windows XP


Supposed that your system has multiple problems or has been seriously infected by virus in which case you need to format your system and install fresh Windows XP.


Steps for installation of Windows XP in your system:


1. Insert Windows XP DVD in the DVD ROM
2. Press F8 during initial booting
3. Wait for "Press any key to boot from CD" message
4. Press Enter key from Windows Setup
5. Press F8 (=I agree)
6. Press Esc key to install fresh Windows XP
7. Select the system (active) drive say C drive
8. Delete the active drive
9. Press L to delete the partition (active)
10.Create a partition by pressing C from the keyboard
11.Press Enter key for maximum partition space(depending on your requirement)
12.Press Enter key to start Windows setup process 
13.Press Enter key to start formating and installation
14.Enter the name and location/region
15. Enter product key


It takes about 35 minutes for a Pentium 4 processor, with 2GB RAM.

Install Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 7 for Beginners

Install Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows for beginners

Requirements:

Windows operating system

Hard disk space atleast 40GB or above

Ubuntu 13.04 live DVD

1. Insert the Ubuntu 13.04 DVD in DVDROM and reboot system

2. Click Install Ubuntu

3. Select Install Ubuntu alongside with Windows

4. Click “Install Now”

5. Select your location/region

6. Continue/English(US)/Continue/Type your name and computer/Continue

It will take about 30 minutes depending on your system speed and configurations

How to get your root password for the purpose of installing other software packages

1. Open terminal by clicking Ctrl-Alt-T

2. On the prompt type sudo -s

3. It will display [sudo] password for sani: (type password here)

4. root@sani:~#

Or

$ sudo passwd root

[sudo] password for sani:

Enter new UNIX password:

Retype new UNIX password:

Password : updated password successfully

sani@sani-desktop:~$

How to edit grub to change TIMEOUT

Type at the prompt: sudo -s

root@sani-desktop:~# gedit /etc/default/grub

You will see the window given below:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0

#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0

GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true

GRUB_TIMEOUT=10

GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Change 10 to -1 at the following line as below

GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1

Note this will let the system wait indefinitely unless you select either Windows or Ubuntu during booting.

Now do as follows:

Ctrl-S  - this will save the changes done just now

Ctrl-q -To quit the window

sudo update-grub – This will apply the changes made

Reboot the system

Dual Booting Linux Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows XP

Dual boot (Ubuntu and Windows XP) Installation Process

Two hard disks in my system.

First HD 20 GB for Linux.

Second HD with three NTFS partitions. Windows XP is first installed in one of these partitions.

Next, Linux Ubuntu 11.10 is installed in first HD.

Ubuntu is booted normally. There is no grub showing option to boot Windows XP.

When Ubuntu is booted, click on Home Folder from the Ubuntu Desktop.

Select “File System” option.

Click on boot/grub/grub.cfg

There is no trace of Windows XP entry.

Go to terminal mode and type following to upgrade grub.

$ sudo update-grub

Restart system.

Now you will see the grub with the following options

1. Ubuntu, with Linux 3.0.0-12-generic

2. Ubuntu, with Linux 3.0.0-12-generic (recovery mode)

3. Memory test(memtest86+)

4. Memory test(memtest86+, serial console 115200)

5. Windows NT/2000/XP(loader)(on /dev/sdb5)

If you select '1' option, Ubuntu booted normally.

Click on boot/grub/grub.cfg

Now you will see Windows XP entry in grub.cfg as follows.

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

menuentry "Windows NT/2000/XP (loader) (on /dev/sdb5)" --class windows --class os {

insmod part_msdos

insmod ntfs

set root='(hd1,msdos5)'

search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 4EA8BEAAA8BE8FC7

drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}

chainloader +1

}

### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

If you select '5' option, it says

NTLDR is missing

Press Ctlr+Alt+Del to restart

How to solve this problem? Lets see next Steps...

Setting up of Tata Photon Plus on Ubuntu 11.10 does not involve complex steps. In fact, it takes just few minutes to connect it to Ubuntu. You dont have to install any driver.  Just insert your Tata Photon Plus data card into USB port of your PC. Following simple steps along with screenshots will help you to connect it.

Screen 1

Click on the Networking icon on top of the desktop. Screen 2 appears after enabling the Enabling Mobile broadband connection option.
Screen 2

After clicking the Continue button, Screen 3 appears.
Screen 3.

Select India under Country or Region List followed by clicking Continue button.

Screen 4

Select “Tata Indicom (Photon+)” as your provider followed by clicking Continue button

Screen 5

Lastly click on “Apply” button
Screen 6

Click on Save button
Screen 7

If the connection is successful, Screen appears. Now you can click on the Firefox web browser for browsing the Internet. These are simple seven steps to connect your Tata Photon Plus to Ubuntu 11.10.


Best of luck!