tachydyne

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by tachydyne 9y ago
Agreed. I was talking specifically about CMUT vs Piezoelectric. If high image quality was always a requirement, the handheld market probably wouldn't exist at all. Butterfly is right to focus on getting an answer over image quality. As
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by tachydyne 9y ago
20 years of CMUT being the next big thing in ultrasound has left me a sceptic, but I know some really smart people at Butterfly. I don't think they would bring a device to market that they didn't think was competitive. My guess is
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by tachydyne 9y ago
I work for a competitor to Butterfly, and the main difference between this device and other ultrasound transducers is the use of a CMUT array instead of the typical piezoelectric crystal. CMUT arrays are MEMS devices, made in a semiconducto
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by tachydyne 9y ago
Android offers VectorDrawable for this purpose, and Android Studio will automatically convert SVGs for you. It works great for icons and other "material" stuff, anything where flat colors and simple paths are sufficient. I believe
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by tachydyne 10y ago
This comment reminds me, there are actually a bunch of Android tablets that shipped with Intel Atom x86 processors. Intel worked some magic with libhoudini that allowed them to run ARM binaries surprisingly fast. If you're an app maker
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by tachydyne 10y ago
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