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Bitbucket is ending their CNAME feature(confluence.atlassian.com)
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Is it a folder? Dropbox is a folder. Everyone in my family understands "put things in this folder, they sync automatically." I want that but at this price!
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From talking with a friend who recently visited and had a magic band, they still do require the finger print in addition to the magic band in order to gain entrance to the park. I have no idea what kind of fingerprinting system is used. My
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Usually the first 3-5 characters are the grantee code and the rest is the product code. For this product, Q3E is the grantee code for Disney.
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Also, if you care to read the FCC documentation, take a look at FCC ID: Q3E-MB-R1G1 You can search for any FCC transmitter on the FCC website: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm This is
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Disney has some nice patents on this stuff, too: https://www.google.com/patents/US8646695 https://www.google.com/patents/US20130249301 https://www.google.com/patents/US2014019
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Inside the magic band are 3 radios: 13.56 MHz near field RFID (what's in your credit card's swipe to pay), 915 MHz passive UHF RFID (what's in your timing bib if you run a 5k race or what Walmart uses for inventory tracking),
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There's probably a huge difference in salary ranges for someone with minimal experience and someone with lots of experience, and this isn't even counting if you're really good or just mediocre. Personally, with 10 years of ex
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For people who like embedded systems and RF and reverse engineering, you can't find a much better job opportunity than the secret spy agencies these days. Show me a company who has their engineers solve problems like these, there&#x27
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There's already a few established companies in the "cloud" 3d printer market, even 3D Systems (the 3d printer manufacturer) participates with their Quickparts brand ( http://www.quickparts.com/LowVolumePrototyp
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Yes, but if you can have something in 7 hours instead of 7 weeks, then the 3d printing thing starts to make a lot of sense. Granted, there are many online services now which will 3d print parts for you with very high quality and about 1 wee
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I have Time Warner Cable's "Everyday Low Price" package. Hopefully this link will work to show you their standard plans: http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/plans-packages/internet/in... I'
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To put 'Getting Netflix' into perspective for you, my home connection is 2 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up and I have no issue watching Netflix steams with good enough quality to be enjoyable. We choose to get this slow connection due to
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The white LED strings look very nice and I definitely agree that white incandescent strings have a very short market life left. But the colored LED strings which are sold at Home Depot and similar merchants in the USA have very different c
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Where's the battery? And how big would said battery need to be if this thing is running wi-fi in order to get "good" battery life? What good are all of these "things" that let you not learn to program in C or care
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http://www.omni-id.com Rochester, NY, USA, Fulltime Email me: andrew dot bradford at omni dash id dot com * Systems Analyst * Performs detailed analysis of Omni-ID’s customer processes to define the software and hardware require
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You make a prototype by cobbling stuff together and show off the user interaction points, not by making a finished product or by dealing with FCC/UL/CE/etc. This will likely cost a few thousand USD worth of parts/assemb
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It's open source hardware for the example board design but not for the microcontroller and Broadcom wifi chip portion which seems to live within the square RF can which shows the "USI" logo. I believe the wifi chip used is th
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Likely high temperatures and/or chemical resistance, maybe very high tightening torques or force, but possibly others, too. Mostly more specialized fastening, I would guess. But think about the bolts and nuts that hold the exhaust sys
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It seems like this is more of, "Let's take these things that are going to talk on the Internet to centralized services and try to make sure that those centralized services give 3rd parties ways to use the data which has been colle
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Cell phone sized antennas are quite small, especially compared to a 40-70 inch typical US home TV these days. The electronics to connect to a cell network and send useful data over it is probably $10-20, tops, plus the cost of the usage (b
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Lenovo Thinkpad T series are still quite good, if not the best, Windows laptops on the market. Although some things have changed since the T2x days, the overall design is still very robust. I owned a T22 and T41, now I have a T530. All ra
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As mentioned in the eevblog forum, Microchip make the MCP2200 which is about $2 in single quantities. Seems similar in features to FT232 chips and reasonable in price. http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?
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If you mean "they" as in the group doing the kickstarter, then saying that "they" don't have a problem is missing the point. "They" are having "their" customers receive defective units. The cus
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It seems like the root of their problem is that they didn't spend enough time/effort/experience on creating the test system. Using things like cap-sense buttons would be very much frowned upon by most contract manufacturers,
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I already do this. Amazon knows my credit card info, so do many other merchants. If I'm doing any kind of mobile payments thing then my phone has access to my bank somehow, too. My concept is basically just "mobile payments&quot
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Yes. If the eInk screen uses the card plastic in place of the glass which usually backs such a screen, it can easily be thin enough for a credit card form factor. Touch screen digitizing can be done resistively with overlaid wires over the
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What would actually be slightly lower in cost and leverage existing infrastructure better would be this Plastc card but remove the bluetooth, the touch interface, chip-n-pin, and the internal battery. Just have an app on your NFC phone and
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The microcontroller, smart card interface, eInk screen, bluetooth capability (including antenna), NFC (including antenna), and touch screen all seem reasonable and there isn't anything earth shattering tech wise (but probably a customi
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Can you explain more about the troubles you have in the distributor search tools? I assume you're speaking of distributors like Digi-Key and Mouser, right? What kind of projects do you work on that finding things at Digi-Key and Mouse

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