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by normaldotcom 1y ago
Awesome to see HAB on hacker news! Was following some of your development years ago when I developed a small APRS tracker, have been meaning to revisit that project someday. Also developed a WSPR version that I haven't published any in
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by normaldotcom 8y ago
Started reading the article... and realized that it was about my favorite BBQ spot in my own hometown! Hope that they can find a way to continue operation.
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by normaldotcom 8y ago
SeaLandAire Technologies | Electrical Engineer | Jackson, MI | Full time | ONSITE We're a small R&D company in Michigan that specializes in fast-turn prototyping and development of small autonomous systems (~6-foot autonomous boats
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by normaldotcom 9y ago
Some background--emlid, the company that is producing this module, relied on Intel Edison modules for the compute power behind their RTK GPS products. The Edison modules were recently EOL'ed. I would guess that this module is primarily
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by normaldotcom 11y ago
I used to mess around with ZynAddSubFX quite a bit... glad to see that there's still some development going on!
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by normaldotcom 11y ago
Another consolidation this year: Dialog is buying Atmel, although Atmel is fairly small compared to the other big players in the microcontroller market.
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by normaldotcom 11y ago
Definitely! I have a couple issues I need to fix on the hardware so the board runs without mods, but I plan on posting all of the hardware/firmware very soon once I get that wrapped up.
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by normaldotcom 11y ago
I've been working on a balloon controller as well, although mine is incredibly bare-bones [1]. It only reports position, altitude, and temperature; but since it's so minimal it only weighs around 2 grams. For your use case, you mi
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by normaldotcom 11y ago
There's also an awesome command-line chromecast client which can play local and remote media. It works quite well in my experience. https://github.com/xat/castnow
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by normaldotcom 11y ago
I highly doubt growing coffee on a small scale will work for this application. Coffee trees typically take 2-3 years before they produce first fuit, and they mature into very large bushes/trees. A young coffee bush might make a good de
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by normaldotcom 11y ago
Thanks, I'll update it shortly.
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by normaldotcom 11y ago
Just packaged it up for Arch Linux (user repository): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tarsnap-gui-git/