Gussy

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by Gussy 14y ago
I bought an original Thinkpad X1 at the start of the year and after using it since then I have to say the biggest problem it has is the battery. It's more like a large capacitor than a battery, something to keep itself powered while your ru
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by Gussy 14y ago
I'm also from Australia and I could list at least a dozen places I would buy an Arduino from, before using your website that's less than a month old, and provides no contact details. This blatant advertising is poor form.
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by Gussy 14y ago
From the retrieval times they are giving, it seems plausible that they could be only booting the servers 5 or 6 times a day, to run the upload and retrieval jobs stored in a buffer system of sorts. Having the servers turned off for the majo
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by Gussy 14y ago
I completely agree, this kind of presentation is so great to see! This is one of the hard problems open source hardware has at the moment. The community is just now realising its existence, so hopefully there will be more so us working on s
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by Gussy 14y ago
I find how this is now all playing out to be quite interesting, and a little amusing: A few years back when there was really only one prominent open source UAV system (Paparazzi), nearly everyone was focused on turning (fixed-wing) radio-co
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by Gussy 14y ago
Chris would be talking about the new MPU9150 from Invensense: http://www.invensense.com/mems/gyro/mpu9150.html Pricing isn't public yet but you can get an idea by looking at the 6-axis products.
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by Gussy 14y ago
As someone pointed out in the comments these processors require DDR3 memory, which is only available (currently) in BGA packages. This means you can't quite use a soldering iron to build your own small computer, yet. The real advantage here
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by Gussy 15y ago
From one of my Linode 512's in Fremont I get 89.0MB/s running the "test" in this blog post.
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Ask HN: Are there any designers out there keen to contribute to the OSS world?
1 points by Gussy 15y ago|1 comments
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by Gussy 15y ago
Sent you an email, maybe I can help you out :)
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by Gussy 15y ago
ST has a very nice "Standard Peripheries Library" for their STM32 ARM Cortex M3 line which abstracts all the bit and register manipulation away in a very elegant manner. Atmel has the "AVR Software Framework" which I have heard good things
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by Gussy 15y ago
The reason it doesn't get used for serious or complex projects is simply because of it's lack of capabilities. The big one is debugging and this is a huge reason for why you won't see EEs using these at their day jobs. Electronic engineers
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by Gussy 15y ago
It's a huge shame that none of the existing ARM Cortex M3 Arduino-like platforms (Maple, Corduino etc.) ever took off. While this is mostly likely because of the projects not being officially endorsed by Arduino, it does also make you wonde
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by Gussy 15y ago
It depends what you mean by industry. No reasonably qualified electronic engineer would use the Arduino platform in a commercial design. Most managers would laugh at any EE who suggested such a thing. I am not aware of any mass produced (co
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by Gussy 15y ago
Slightly better coverage here; http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/evil-the-hacker-re...