Scheduling & Automating Youtube Daily Live Streaming via Google Apps Script

Background & Motivation Some of them may know that i have been a student/volunteer of a NGO and during this quarantine time it’s hard to get together and meet the community. With that said, many of the social community also facing the same challenges and good that we have enough platforms now to meet online through hangouts, skype, zoom etc. Usually students from various branches gather daily in the nearby NGO centres to attend the classess and sessions in the morning at 7AM....

April 25, 2020 · 8 min · Nirmal

Creating a Information Display using OLD e-Ink Reader (NOOK)

In this post i would like to share how i used my spare rooted Nook Simple Touch e-Ink reader as a Wall mounted display unit to show some live news and information. This was inspired by the post Train Status Display The objective is to create a daily dashboard screen with minimal information on a display. To get started with this i chose the following infromation to be shown Calendar Date Time...

March 30, 2020 · 3 min · Nirmal

Nook Simple Touch - Broken Infrared Touch

I have been a fan of e-Ink readers and i bought first e-Ink reader Nook Simple Touch (NST) in 2013 and very excited with the paper like display for reading purposes. Working with smart phones, tablets in the digital world has created a a sense of discomfort for our eyes. E-Ink readers comes to the rescue by aoiding those lights and bringing the immersive experience similar to book reading. I do read from physical books, but procuring, managing and maintaining them has become tough....

March 29, 2020 · 6 min · Nirmal

Google Apps Script - Exposure

Google Apps Script - Exploration When people wants a simple, automated scripting solution for their day-to-day activities, business workflows or even processing some files/data, Google Apps script is the first tool which i recommend for them. I use the Apps script extensively atleast to create initial POC related to API Integration. If you I have been working in Google Apps script for more than 6 years and i can see great improvements in the API since the initial launch of the Apps Script....

January 11, 2020 · 2 min · Nirmal

Experimenting with MiTV

Last Edited: Jun 22, 2019 4:27 PM Watching TV doesn’t interests me. May be being in the field of Software Development, I feel i should have the control of what i want to watch than watching something telecasted on the TV. We have been using a OLD CRT TV for a long time and i had no plans to switch to LED or SmartTV. Last year around September 2018, , i have being looking for a LED Tv to consume courses, tutorials and Ted Talks from Online sources like Youtube....

June 22, 2019 · 3 min · Nirmal