Vikrant Thakur

Technical lead, Embedded S/W H/W

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

Deeply Embedded in collaboration with MakeHackCo co-organised the first in-person meetup where we had brainstorming sessions on various technologies and aspects. We are just getting warmed up!

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

@dkukreja010 Shares samples 😂😂. Anyways , eat healthy stay hydrated and most importantly enjoy 😉

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

@dkukreja010 Sure let’s connect and share knowledge:)

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

@Fried_rice Link invalid , someone share the exact link?

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

@Sassy_Soul_ And might be you are saviour of Pakistan image ?

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

@venom1s Totally agree it is more of a propaganda rather than showing real problem , what problem is with women who have extramarital and doesn’t allow for any intercourse with partner ?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Think in probabilities

[MOHINI WEALTH (NRI) @MohiniWealth]

On the night of May 20, 2025, a little girl in a faded pink frock fell asleep on her mother’s lap at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Her parents, simple people from Solapur, had come to Mumbai for her father’s treatment. They were exhausted. Just for a moment, the mother closed her eyes.

When she opened them, her daughter was gone.

Six months.
Six months of walking from police station to police station.
Six months of showing the same crumpled photograph to strangers on trains, in slums, in orphanages.
Six months of the father not sleeping, the mother not eating, both of them growing hollow-eyed, whispering the same name into the dark: “Aarohi… Aarohi…”

In Varanasi, a thousand kilometres away, a tiny girl with no memory of her real name was learning to call herself “Kashi.” She had been found crying near the railway tracks in June, barefoot and terrified. The orphanage gave her food, a bed, and a new name. She smiled easily, because children always do, but sometimes at night she clutched the edge of her blanket and asked for “Aai” — Marathi for mother — and no one understood.

Back in Mumbai, the police refused to close the file. They printed posters with Aarohi’s face, stuck them on every platform from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Bhusawal to Varanasi Cantt. They ran newspaper ads, knocked on doors, begged journalists for help. Six months is a long time for hope to stay alive, but some officers carried her photograph in their shirt pockets like it was their own child.

Then, on November 13, a local reporter in Varanasi saw the poster. Something clicked. He had seen a girl who spoke Marathi words in her sleep. He made a phone call.

The next morning, a Mumbai Police inspector sat in front of a laptop in Varanasi and opened a video call. On the screen appeared a little girl in a pink frock — the same colour she was wearing the day she vanished. The mother, standing behind the officer in Mumbai, saw her daughter and collapsed without a sound. The father just kept repeating, “That’s my Aarohi… that’s my baby…”

They flew her back on Children’s Day — November 14.

When the plane landed, the entire Mumbai Crime Branch was waiting. They had bought her balloons and a new frock, sky blue this time. But the moment the little girl stepped out and saw the sea of khaki uniforms, she did something no one expected.

She ran.

Not away — toward them.

Tiny legs pumping, arms outstretched, she threw herself at the nearest officer and laughed — the purest, clearest laugh that had been missing from the world for half a year. The officer, a tough man who had seen everything, felt his eyes burn. He lifted her high, and she wrapped her arms around his neck like he was family.

Her parents were crying too hard to walk. So the policemen carried their daughter to them.

The mother touched her face again and again, as if checking she was real. The father fell to his knees and pressed his forehead to his child’s tiny feet, sobbing words no one could understand except God.

And the little girl? She just kept smiling, looking from her parents to the officers and back again, completely unaware that she had turned an entire police station into a sobbing, laughing, praying family.

Six months of darkness ended in one hug.

Aarohi is home now.
The kidnapper is still out there, but that is tomorrow’s fight.

Today, a mother is singing lullabies again.
Today, a father is smiling in his sleep.
And somewhere in Mumbai, there are policemen who will never forget the weight of a four-year-old girl in their arms — the weight of an entire life returned.

Sometimes the uniform doesn’t just catch thieves.
Sometimes it carries lost children all the way back to their mothers’ hearts.

[Mari @Tech_girlll]

As a programmer, what are these called?

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

There is no shortcuts to knowledge , especially knowledge gained from personal experience

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

@blackrosee33 Hahaha esp hangs

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

Slim phones hard to find space in indian and global markets - smaller battery doesn’t satisfy the gen z crowd :)

[Shawn Hymel @ShawnHymel]

Choosing between a bare-metal approach and a real-time operating system (#RTOS) can be tricky. An RTOS is great for high complexity and strict timing, while simpler projects may benefit from a bare-metal superloop.
👇
Link in the replies

#embedded #embeddedsystems #Zephyr #IoT

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

Last week in Gurugram, 25-yr-old graphic designer Akshat Jain lost his life after touching a submerged live wire near Ghasola Road.
Another preventable death due to civic negligence.
When will the authorities wake up?
#Gurgaon #MonsoonSafety #InfrastructureFailure

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

@dkukreja010 Congrats @dkukreja010

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

@wowuniqueorns Congo doc

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

@artoverasters Face won’t change even if you do that

[Sidharth II सिद्धार्थ @sidharthgehlot]

Phone wallpaper inspired by the divine, the floral, and the surreal.

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

I asked 99 software & Hardware developers about their first approach for a bug fix.

Re-running the code and testing directly multiple times was the second most common response.

Questioning the career choices was the first.

[Vikrant Thakur @geek_explorer]

@dkukreja010 More fun with you combine with how brains learn