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New comment by alienonwings in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

alienonwings — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:01:06 +0000

Been working on a Bluetooth based miniature range Locating tag that can be glued or stuck on to any object of choice. (think sometohing like an Airtag, but 1/10th the size and working on Android and way cheaper) The need arose when my old parents kept forgetting where they last left their spectacles. Since I am a electronics and hardware engineer by profession, I am looking for some expertise on app building for his project. Maybe I will turn to an AI assistant for this. I am working on a blog seriaes for his to record my environmental progress. Will be up in a few weeks.

New comment by alienonwings in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

alienonwings — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:33:33 +0000

Working on a low cost, miniature Bluetooth tracker. The inspiration was my parents keep losing (forget) their spectacles in the house. I wanted to build something that is very easy and simple to use and it was important to keep it small. SO the form factor is something like an airtag but 10x smaller which can be just stuck on to the spectacles and forget that it exists. Next step, obviously is to build a simple app that shows the location of this tracker with a range based on the Bluetooth signal strength.

New comment by alienonwings in "Indian entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist, Ratan Tata, dead at 86"

alienonwings — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:34:33 +0000

Om Shanti

New comment by alienonwings in "Indian entrepreneur, industrialist, and philanthropist, Ratan Tata, dead at 86"

alienonwings — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:33:44 +0000

That's "RIP" for Indians.

New comment by alienonwings in "Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary"

alienonwings — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 07:54:37 +0000

ಧನ್ಯವಾದ

New comment by alienonwings in "Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts"

alienonwings — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:18:18 +0000

Given the fact that the training that goes behind this is a brutal busniess and the fact that monkey is a God figure, it would not be received well in India, I believe.

New comment by alienonwings in "Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0"

alienonwings — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:09:39 +0000

Since I am new on the forum here, would anyone be able to recommend some good materials for me to get hold of development or product ownership for electronics products/embedded systems products?