alunaryak

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by alunaryak 7y ago
I helped present a Tesla coil demo at one of the first Maker Faires (maybe 2006 or 2007?) and it was an absolute blast. It was also decidedly no frills, focused on the artsy, crazy, creative projects. I don't recall much, if anything,
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by alunaryak 9y ago
tig is great -- it makes it very easy to stage individual lines of code (using 1) or to reset unstaged changes on a file (using ! in the status view).
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by alunaryak 9y ago
It's definitely getting long in the tooth, but I believe a few places still stock them. Mouser & Digikey both have a handful in stock. Mouser: https://www.mouser.com/search/refine.aspx?Ntk=P_MarCom&Ntt=1...
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by alunaryak 9y ago
This is a bit orthogonal, but if you're interested in the watch form factor, TI makes a really neat watch dev board for the MSP430 that has a built-in accelerometer and support for wireless sensors. http://processors.wiki.ti
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by alunaryak 9y ago
I hear what you're saying, but Chisel is a lot closer to an RTL like Verilog than it is to OpenCL.
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by alunaryak 9y ago
Terasic makes good Altera boards such as the $100 DE0-Nano series, and Digilent makes a decent Xilinx Artix-based dev board for around the same price. They both have decent community support, but just be aware that setting up the dev enviro
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by alunaryak 10y ago
I like the idea of a physical analog to game logic, e.g. tripping a certain condition based on collision mechanics. This could be useful for something akin to Game Maker, and I'd be curious to see how it would translate to other medium