dbcurtis

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   by dbcurtis 11y ago

   So, how much time did it take you to get the WiFi stack working on your RasPi? Oh? You've never actually tried to get WiFi working on a Pi? Thought so. Getting WiFi to work on a Pi has historically been an exercise in very, very ca
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   by dbcurtis 11y ago

   Well, I think that loosening admission requirements for women at the elite engineering schools is not actually happening. The elite colleges are, however, soaking up all the qualified women. The fact of the matter is that schools like HMC
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   by dbcurtis 11y ago

   Excellent questions. First, there is the complexity of setting up a cross-development environment for your chosen controller. Take the 8-bit AVR's as found in Arduino. I was using those before Arduino, and frankly didn't see th
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   by dbcurtis 11y ago

   Yes, it would run on Android the way it runs on Lunux, as an OS process. The benefit is extreme parsimony with respect to RAM use.
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   by dbcurtis 11y ago

   first, lets be clear about Micropython, the software versus PyBoard, the reference hardware. Micropython on a Pyboard is runnunig on bare metal with no OS. Micropython is very portable, and builds nicely on Linux, yielding a nice small-foot
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   by dbcurtis 11y ago

   if (abs(a-b) < FUZZ) { }
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   by dbcurtis 11y ago

   somebody gets it
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   by dbcurtis 11y ago

   ? Needs categories for "nerd", "robot", and "maker". Yet another product for the sheeple. sigh
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   by dbcurtis 11y ago

   very unlikely. they were probably used for localization. for instance, locating door for egress, or computing a grasp for the box. grasp planning is particularly difficult at the moment.
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    by dbcurtis 11y ago

    Have you even tried MicroPython on it? Granted, you need to consider performance -- where you need it, and where you don't. But is is quite easy in MicroPython to create a C-extension module for performance critical components, and h
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    by dbcurtis 11y ago

    I have some experience using MicroPython on the PyBoard (not the ESP8266). MicroPython is a very nice implementation of Python 3.X. A few differences because of the need to be extremely parsimonious with RAM usage -- mostly only noticed
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    by dbcurtis 11y ago

    Well, OK, but usually I want to go the other way. How about something that can take a drawing produced in some sort of reasonable drawing tool and produce ASCII art that I can include in some kind of ASCII-only file (like program source.)
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    by dbcurtis 11y ago

    ??? Go write Java if you want to write Java. Don't try to write Java with Python syntax. Use Python to write Python. Trying to force the idioms of the programming language you just left onto the programming language you just learned i