I have been playing with one of Nordic’s nRF52 development boards to try and see how much data I can transmit using BLE to a smartphone. While continuous data transmission is not the ideal use case scenario for BLE (which is designed for intermittent usage), there are applications that do require high data rates at […]

A very common way of displaying a list of items in an iOS app is using a UITableView which gets its data, typically, from an array that holds the items to be displayed in each cell. If the items to be displayed are fetched with an API call to a web server then it is […]

In this post, I will show how to connect an iOS device (with Bluetooth 4.0) to the SensorTag, read data from the sensors and display it on the screen. For the purpose of this tutorial you will need: An iOS device with Bluetooth 4.0 iOS Developer Account Texas Instruments SensorTag Xcode 6.1 The SensorTag from […]

Biomedical Engineering (BME) is one of the hottest and fastest growing subject in engineering at present. It is sometimes painted as a an emerging field or something that has come to the fore very recently. I rather think that biomedical engineering has existed for a long time. Everything from the invention of surgical scissors, x-ray machines […]

One common complaint is that LaTeX is not image-friendly and is somewhat true. Depending on the workflow being used the format of the image is quite important. I am by no means an expert in TeX and have only compiled this information searching through forums whenever stuck on a certain problem. I must confess that despite […]

Now that you’re finally over the disappointment of receiving a major revision (and not a rejection!) on your cherished paper, it’s time to start working. My strategy is based on Tanya Golash-Boza’s post and is modified slightly to suit my workflow. The use of a spreadsheet may sound crazy to some (it did to me!) but […]

I’ll be very honest here. It sucks to get a Major Revision (or Revise and Resubmit) on any manuscript. It really does! An optimist would say that its better than an outright Reject. That’s true but the amount/nature of work a major revision can entail is usually unpredictable. Also, by the time you get the […]

The anxiety of waiting for a decision on your first ever academic paper is unbearable. It starts immediately after you hit that submit button and ends up when you receive THAT email. While writing that first paper you’ve most likely ensured that everything is clearly explained and justified. And your supervisor, who is a big […]

In the last eight months or so I’ve been getting plenty of e-mails asking for a copy of the mainSplit.py Python script I wrote ages ago. It basically takes in a large WP backup XML file and splits it in to chunks of less than 2mb. Apparently some tech blogs also linked to the previous […]