Nerd Stuff on Arjun's Webpage

Pentax DL-9000 : The Scamera

Sun, 24 May 2026 11:48:22 +0530

The Pentax DL9000, also sold under other names was a plastic body, plastic lens, fixed focus camera with a SLR camera like appearance and unverifiable unrealistic claims pasted on as stickers onto its body. This is a collection of Pentax DL9000 listings I’ve found on my hunt for a SLR camera.

Maps of Delhi - Transit

Wed, 06 May 2026 09:55:55 +0530

Maps of Delhi - Transit

Metro, roads, DTC getting around..

A map of DTC bus routes

This map of DTC bus routes was created in the style of a metro map, now taken down on the web I had to do a lot of digging to find it. Created by Sudipto Ghosh and Shimonti Sinha of Citywise in 2016. The project seems to have wrapped up by 2018.

Maps of Delhi - Urban

Wed, 06 May 2026 09:55:55 +0530

A collection of maps of urban Delhi I've collected over my internet rabbitholeing on the websites of Delhi Development Authority and Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

Ender 3

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:03:49 +0530

An Ender 3 is the rite of passage for all 3D Printing enthusiasts. Yes a Bambu lab may be refined, convenient and clean but to become the ultimate hobbyist and maker one must burn their hands cleaning the clogged extruder of an Ender 3. One must blow more money on repairs than the actual cost of the printer in order to get it running.

Make Youtube Distraction Free

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 14:05:25 +0530

Over the years, it has become increasingly hard to focus on the web. With websites and serveices now being designed to make you shuttle from one red dot to another, it has become necessary for us users to preserve our integrities as users and to not become consumers. This article will guide you to removing all sorts of distractions from YouTube, a popular video sharing website which houses a library of videos ranging from casual entertainment to perhaps the best lectures in calculus. For the ones who use this as a tool to study, it is not possible to use the platform while keeping together their focus on what’s important.

Short Video Format

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 13:47:49 +0530

Against the short video format

The short video format is a non consensual, habit forming, freedom infringing video format that destroys the users attention span. It takes away the users right to consent, delivers them trivial information in bite sized bits of novelty along with a hit of hormones.

Wearing A Mechanical Watch

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:30:54 +0530

This article was made on my old blog on 17 February 2022.
Having worn almost all sorts of watches, around a month ago I finally decided to make the leap to a mechanical watch. This leap of mine which truly felt like a leap of faith in the beginning, was a lot more reliable than I had expected it to be.