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by rm30 9mo ago
It depends on which step of the staircase, from pure hardware to pure software, you want to position yourself. Some projects require staying closer to the metal, while others can be purely software. I move up and down this staircase dependi
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by rm30 9mo ago
The smartphone is just an advanced walkie-talkie, currently limited only by the mobile operator, the law, the radio chipset, and the OS. In a true emergency, who can stop you from modifying that architecture? Once you treat the device as an
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by rm30 9mo ago
To have an FM receiver work on a phone, you do need an antenna, the wired headphones serve that purpose perfectly. An FM transmitter is easy to find; you can use the simple 'Jack-to-FM' adapters designed for car radios, or much be
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by rm30 9mo ago
I’ve read all the posts and, as the 'old man of the village', I would suggest taking a look at FidoNet. It was running 40 years ago, for more than a decade, before the internet was available to the average person. Store-and-forwar
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by rm30 9mo ago
The project is interesting, the concept too, the idea of indipendent communication tools also. I'll tell you a story. Usain Bolt, the world 100/200m recordman, is not faster than cheeta. He needs a motorbike or a car to be beat a
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by rm30 9mo ago
I'd consider this app a proof of concept, with limited practical applications. The story of using Bluetooth in a cruise ship to chat with family sounds like it’s pushing the limits of physics; communication in those conditions is highl
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by rm30 9mo ago
true, '80s were the years that signed the switch from an economy based on products and services (Olivetti) to an economy based on financial papers (Agnelli). If the 1st one was more human sized, the second one forgot about people. The
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by rm30 9mo ago
The Community Movement (Movimento Comunità) was Adriano Olivetti's broader social philosophy: focused on worker participation, cooperative economics, and community-based organization. there is not so much in English, all my knowledge
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by rm30 9mo ago
you need to consider that Italy from '50s to 1992 had the powerful communist party in western countries. It wasn't a mystery a collaboration between Italian companies and Soviet Union. During '70s FIAT transferred know-how to
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by rm30 9mo ago
Excellent technical history, but it misses what made Olivetti incomparable: Adriano's human-centric philosophy that business and human culture were inseparable. The article mentions worker housing and urban planning in passing, then mo
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by rm30 9mo ago
https://www.mangialardi.it Systems architecture blog. About 10 articles on offline-first design, constraint-driven architecture, and distributed systems thinking. Decades of experience across IoT, infrastructure, and field opera
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by rm30 9mo ago
Maybe Italy is more advanced, you can bring eWaste to the municipal center or to leave to the shop where you are buying a new device. On the street they started to place bin for small eWaste like phones, chargers, keyboards, vape.
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by rm30 9mo ago
Nowsdays computers misguided us to think that we need to measure RAM in GB and storage in TB. There are a lot of "invisible" applications running on 8bit MCU (not ARM based and more modern than ZX80) and few kB of flash and a bun