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by tdicola 11y ago
Yep, great idea to use a little OLED and go for something smaller. You might check out the Metro 'mini' board or other similar small Arduino boards like the Micro, Mini, Nano, etc. too: https://www.adafruit.com/pr
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You can actually build a working cell phone today with an Arduino, check out this guide: https://learn.adafruit.com/arduin-o-phone-arduino-powered-di... The guts of it are based on Adafruit's FONA board which uses a S
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Imagine how mad the people in the study would be after they found out it was a sham. "I drank curdled milk for 3 weeks so you could get your big break!"
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RTGs don't have to be heavy and big. Sure one to power a car sized rover like Curiosity with large motors, science equipment, lasers, etc will be big. But one to power a little probe with 24 watts would be tiny. In the 70s there wer
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It's funny, just yesterday I was in a thrift store and found a brand new still sealed in shrinkwrap copy of Visual C++ 2.0 (with its totally awesome C++ logo made of 3D plus signs: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Visual
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Doesn't this breach pretty much invalidate anyone who has ever had a security clearance? A bad actor who got ahold of the data could find people in sensitive positions and blackmail them with the sensitive information in their securit
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Err, that's kinda greatly simplifying things. I'd say the last 10 years can be described as: - ~2005 to ~2009 was the Ray Ozzie era. Ozzie took over the role of Chief Software Architect from Bill Gates in 2006 and the company, i
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There really isn't a best or better choice, everything has pros and cons. MicroPython is really nice in that you can write a C (or even inline assembly) extension to the language easily and get access to the low level hardware. It&#x
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It can happen accidentally quite easily. Someone new to a codebase starts hacking in a feature and mistypes a variable as 'value' instead of 'values'. They fail to realize there's already a 'value' varia
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You can do this today. Just download XCode and go to town. Or use any other programming language supported on OSX like Python, Go, etc. etc.
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I wonder if discoveryd will come back or if it's gone for good.
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Wow that's great to see the absolute bare necessities to use modern OpenGL distilled into one nice blog post.
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Wattage tried something similar but just recently shut down: https://medium.com/inside-wattage/well-we-failed-77e795e16ec...
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Although 13 was quite a near-disaster, I'm surprised that there isn't just as much attention to how much 11 very nearly was a disaster too. During 11's descent to the moon the LEM's computer was overloaded and started th
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by tdicola 11y ago
Don't underestimate how deep the pockets are of government defense funds. The NSA has a gigantic datacenter in Utah that's estimated to be storing data on the exabyte order of magnitude (thousands of petabytes). http:/&#x2F
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Didn't one of the boards sell for almost $1M recently? Did the market for them drop massively or did some fool over pay by $800k for an Apple I?
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If you're in the Seattle area the gold rush for real estate is definitely back on. The only thing different between now and 2007 is that I don't see as many sign twirlers on corners. Tower cranes and new constructions are everyw
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to the death penatly. Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison.
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Audience shot shows just one person with Google Glass--ouch.
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Hash-based partitioning has a big problem that when you change the hash size all of the data moves around. Eventually you'll need to do a lookup-based partitioning scheme. You also probably want control over where some users live sin
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Unfortunately? I'd love to know when changing false to mean true and vice-versa would make sense in any codebase.
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That is an impressive spin. He's not talking about apps like Office, etc. he's talking about Windows Phone having less extensibility points than Android. Like being able to plug in 3rd party browsers, voice search/assistant
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Public companies have a fiduciary responsibility to show their shareholders growth every 4 months. Private companies can do absolutely anything as long as they're paying their bills and not breaking any laws.
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The C64 DTV is pretty close. You can hack them to add a keyboard and disk port without too much trouble.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Very cool, thanks!
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Very cool, thanks for sharing the info on using rust bare metal! I'm really curious to try running rust code on the popular ESP8266 module ( http://makezine.com/2015/04/01/esp8266-5-microcontroller-wi-...
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Wow this sounds pretty interesting. Is there any python library to use it in ipython/jupyter, etc. yet? I love pandas and the python data 'stack' but sometimes its syntax for joining and querying data is just extremely obtu
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Some of them have been certified, check out the raw module and nice breakout version from Adafruit (both FCC certified modules): https://www.adafruit.com/products/2491 and https://www.adafruit.com/produ
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If anyone wants to try it out, I wrote up a guide on how to compile and install the MicroPython firmware for the ESP8266: https://learn.adafruit.com/building-and-running-micropython-... Note that it's still very early
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Check out Chris Gammell's Contextual Electronics course about board design with KiCad: https://contextualelectronics.com/ The KiCard course is now free and great at walking through how to use KiCad to design boards:

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