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glenharris
6y ago
Justin could not agree with you more!
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glenharris
6y ago
Logitech bought us in 2004, I think I stayed on for about another 12-18 months or so. I would have finished up around mid-late 2005. I have a ridiculous collection of early Harmony Remotes that I cant bear to get rid of :-)
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glenharris
6y ago
It is worth noting that in 1024 bytes of ram, we managed: 1) Call stack frame and local variables 2) Full graphical menuing system with text and icons 3) Infrared sending 4) Infrared learning 5) Smart State Control (i.e. for each device,
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glenharris
6y ago
OK, that must be a much later remote (2006+). The original remotes were heavily COGS optimized. For example, the first remote used a PIC microchip with 1kB of ram. We had 2MB of flash, so the server would create a massive state machine t
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glenharris
6y ago
OK, look, it was a long time ago, but I don't actually think we used Flash. Maybe one of the later versions where we tried to make it look sexier and/or more integrated? The original client side architecture was basically: 1) So
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glenharris
6y ago
Hey y'all. I wrote the client/server/embedded software for the Harmony (technically the 'EasyZapper'(!) at first). It was the original 'two guys and a laptop' project. My mate Justin was the electrical&#