Ehsan Nourbakhsh’s Blog

Recently I spent some time shopping for a new car. A dear friend of mine, Ahmad, recommended some good internet resources. These helped me find out how good was each deal that I got. He also helped me with some different issues in financing and mechanical/design things.

I will try to briefly explain the steps that I took, and how they were useful. As usual, it is just my experience. Verify everything and decide for your own. Here is a summary of links if you are in a hurry:

• Edmunds Paid Price and Buying Experience Forum
  
• Annual Percentage Rate Calculation Program
• Yahoo! Finance Resources
• Edmunds Price Estimator
  
• Excel Sheet Auto Loan Calculator
• Edmunds Long-Term Road Test Blog
• Confessions of a Car Salesman

Read more about my experience using these links below… (more…)

One of my lab-colleague friends Ryan created 15 images for our Ember Zigbee devices to run on all the channels up to 26. We jokingly attributed it to my 26^th birthday today, as well as an April 1^st joke. Anyways, I prefer to regard it as my birthday cake and its candles

Here is a screenshot of the Wi-Spy readings inside our Faraday cage.