Amusing Musings

  Blood of Olympus  By Rick Riordan  Rating  8/10  Seven heroes ..  Millions of demons…  The final battle begins….   “Seven half bloods shall answer the call,  To storm or fire the world must fall,  An oath to keep with a final breath,  And foes bear arms at the doors of death” It is their one and only chance to save the world from ... the Earth!  As the crew of Argo 2 traveled deep into the ancient lands, Nico, Rayena & the Coach are desperately trying to restore peace between the Greeks & the Romans. One of the crew members has an "oath to keep with the final breath". Will they be ‘victorious’ to succeed or see the earth being torn apart ... by the Earth itself?  The Blood Of Olympus if the fifth and final book in the fantabulous Heroes of Olympus series. Set in the ancient lands of Greece and the modern Camp Half blood, this book takes us on the final journey of the crew o...

Rating 9.5/10 stars  Jack Fletcher' s father's ship was wrecked off the coast mysterious land of Japan , attacked by the Ninja pirates. With his father murdered and the responsibility to protect his rutter & being lost in the unknown land, Jack is left helpless. When the great Masamoto adopted him, he trained in the way of the warrior to become a samurai. Jack feels unsafe as the ruthless ninja ' dragon eye ', the  cold-blooded  Shogun Kamkura and his unrelenting enemy Kazuki are after his life.  With help of his sensei and his loyal friends, Jack is able to begin his journey to Nagasaki, to return to England.  Can he reach England safely? Can he face his biggest fear ever? Can he protect his father's Rutter ?  Young Samurai is a fantastic nine book series by Chris Bradford, with so many twists in the story that I lost count. These twists make the story so gripping that I couldn't put the books down till the end . Th...

Whether you are a newbie or an expert at programming/ electronics and want unleash your creativity though microprocessor programming, Arduino is just the perfect platform for you to kick off.  This mini wonder is a micro-controller which is nothing but a small computer that you can control to perform various functions . E.g Turing LED lamp on/off . Hold on! You may wonder "why would I need a 'computer' to turn on a LED ? I can do it with a switch !" Consider this - you want a LED to blink after every 1 minute, or a more complex situation of a traffic signal, where multiple LED lamps need to turn on/off periodically....... or even more difficult situation where the traffic varies a lot. Now Green signal needs to be kept on in proportion to the traffic in that lane. It means, traffic in all lanes needs to be sensed to control the traffic light all the time.  These problems cannot be solved by a mere switch. Only a computer. Can perform...