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by mng2 12y ago
They actually have AR overlays already. What you do is lay the catalog down on the floor, and the iPad app uses it as a size reference to generate the overlay. It's a little finicky in practice but still pretty impressive.
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by mng2 12y ago
This seems to be the code from the "Open Source Graphics Project" Kickstarter that ran last year. They didn't get anywhere near the $200K goal for 2-D, much less the $400K goal for 3-D. Glad to see that it's getting out
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by mng2 12y ago
That's very helpful, thanks. The company I work for doesn't do any 3D graphics, so I should be able to open-source my implementation (if and when it gets done).
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by mng2 12y ago
Would you be able to share platform/performance numbers? I've actually been thinking about doing something like this but I'm coming from the opposite direction (hardware guy who's always wanted to learn more about 3D gra
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by mng2 12y ago
I don't see why you need an i7. I have a passively-cooled Celeron NUC (Zotac CI320) that's fine for web browsing and 'productivity'. It gets hotter than I'd like though.
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by mng2 12y ago
I don't know what you're expecting (nightlies?) but KiCAD is a slow-moving project. Take a look at the old builds folder to get a rough idea of the interval between releases. And that's not a random French server. KiCAD was o
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by mng2 12y ago
I guess I'm one of those people who tells my friends that KiCAD is "much better now". Bear in mind that this is a comparison to oh, five years ago, when it would crash roughly as often as OrCAD... EEs are accustomed to buggy
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by mng2 12y ago
I have a project/cape that I want to move from BB to BBB, and it's the stuff you describe that makes me put it off. Thankfully there's no rush.
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by mng2 12y ago
Impressive work and a fantastic writeup to boot. Kinda makes me want to accidentally break something (okay not really).
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by mng2 12y ago
Lattice does offer free licenses for the low end. They're certainly not going to give you a free license for PCIe; I'm pretty sure Xilinx and Altera don't either, that's still a premium feature.
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by mng2 12y ago
The big thing about this is that it's achieved using so-called High-Temperature Superconductor material, where the superconducting transition temperature is basically anything higher than the < 10ish K that conventional superconduct
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by mng2 12y ago
They also explicitly forbid store-and-forward operations.
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by mng2 12y ago
For what it's worth, I haven't had any trouble on RHEL (which is recommended).
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by mng2 12y ago
Wow, I had mistakenly assumed that you couldn't do 0.8 mm BGAs on a hobbyist-level PCB. The solder lands are actually within recommendations. The author mentioned that this is a test board without much hooked up. That really helps, sin
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by mng2 12y ago
Who is this targeted at? As it stands, the documentation requires quite a bit of EE knowledge. If it's meant for novices, you'll probably need to define half the terms mentioned on the first page. The other major issue IMO is inst
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by mng2 12y ago
The firmware can be built with what we have provided, and will run on the WRT1900AC successfully. It is true that it would lack wireless support, but that would not stop the firmware from actually working. https://lists.openwr
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by mng2 13y ago
From what I can tell it's the same kind of service that Seeed, Itead, etc offer. Seems that the title is a joke/marketing.[0] On the picture they posted, the silkscreen registration is pretty bad, but that's par for the cours
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by mng2 13y ago
But that's exactly the problem I'm getting at: they make so many of these things, and while you can find them on eBay as replacement parts, there's no documentation on using them from scratch. I don't even care about sup
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by mng2 13y ago
This fellow[0] designed a DDR2 interface, but I don't think he ever reported back whether or not it worked. Apparently he did it by hand in Eagle! To address your point about tools, I think you're right about the value aspect -- g
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by mng2 13y ago
Screens and cameras are two of the worst offenders for hobbyist/small-scale dev efforts. They're obviously everywhere, and obviously could be affordable, but either you can't find documentation for them without an NDA or they
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by mng2 13y ago
Laboratory fusion is a rather delicate process, once described as 'containing a blob of jello with rubber bands'. The typical Tokamak fusion plasma is orders of magnitude less dense than air, and if it hits the wall of the contain
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by mng2 13y ago
Actually, Japan is one of the biggest contributors to ITER. Notably, they are continuing a strong domestic fusion program -- compare this to the U.S., where most of the fusion budget is going to ITER, at the expense of domestic fusion prog
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by mng2 13y ago
I gave it a go with a small, past project. Overall I think it's an interesting idea, less of an API and more of a matchmaker/de-frictionizer. Some things I'd like to see: 1. Ability to select which files get used. I have a ba
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by mng2 13y ago
>The most difficult part is the grounding of it – which metal kettles are in sore need of, lest they give you an electric shock. Appliances like these are generally 2-prong and therefore not connected to safety ground. Rather they are su
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by mng2 13y ago
>Source code of the customized Arduino IDE will also be made available; the GPS / Beidou / GLONASS navigation kernel library integrated will remain in library file format. Sounds like the guts are in a binary blob.
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by mng2 13y ago
You are asking a few different questions here. The biggest problem for fusion in general is probably the limited theoretical understanding of plasmas, since simulations are intractable. The biggest practical problem faced by any commercial-
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by mng2 13y ago
Iris Chang's biography of Tsien argues that the government backed him into a corner, then left him in bureaucratic limbo for several years. This would be a lot for a proud, brilliant man to take sitting down. I find it easier to believ
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by mng2 13y ago
In my current apartment, it's not even possible to get 3rd party DSL. (Reply from DSLExtreme: After looking into your prequalification results we determined that we cannot provide High-Speed Internet Service to your location.) And what
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by mng2 13y ago
It looks like there are several torrents out there, but an 'official' one would be nice to have.
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by mng2 13y ago
Tubes aren't all that terribly different from transistors; the characteristic curves are slightly different but the circuit topologies are basically the same as those of transistor circuits.

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