My Interests

Last few months I work with micro-controllers and single-board computers. Interest towards this small applications started from my child hood. In the mid 90's, I was about 9 years old, Mr Wiyagaratnam a close relative sends me used batteries through my father. He knew, I make LED decoration light bulbs and need batteries to power them because there was no electricity at that time. Those days batteries were very expensive and hard to find even due to economic sanction enforced in northern Sri Lanka. This is what I remember as the start, a personal bond with circuitry.

I read books about electronic circuitry, I could build basic bridge circuit to power my lights with bicycle dynamo. I  started using 555 IC to make my projects more interesting. I turned 12 and I was studying at St. John's College. Astronomy was part of our studies. We had to stay at night to observe planets and stars. We were preparing for the day, building a walky-talky was part of a plan to communicate within our friends. It was a failure project. one reason lack of knowledge other we could not find circuits and other tools.

After A/L I got a small break form regular studies. Computers and mobile phones were trendy. I had a computer from 2002 so I am like a advanced user. I could make my computer into pieces and assemble back.  Appa does not like playing with electricity. I had to do all these while he is away. I was interested mobile unlocking stuff. I followed mobile repair training class. At that time Nokia was widely used around here. We need MT-Box to unlock N95 phone. there were few others JAF, HWKuFs, N-Box, Genie Universal, MT-Box, Universal-box are some of those.

In 2009 I came to Colombo. Started preparing for BCS exams. Did CCNA and OCPJP. this is like everyone does. I was searching for something for my hunger. Colombo university conducted a course on embedded systems. I decided to follow this because it will give me a structured list of topics to learn. Most of the things covered, I have learnt already but not in a ordered manner. still I have doubts choosing hardware, there are different standards. Greatest value I gained from that course was people. 

With all these knowledge and experience playing with hardware, and things I learnt from my career and from another interesting topic computer security; did C|EH, and photography I would like to build some thing that is useful to all.