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by tdicola 13y ago
I wanted to do some Windows CE development as a hobbyist a few years ago (my car stereo runs Windows CE, was hoping to make some apps to monitor OBD parameters) and it was a complete nightmare to try developing against. Maybe things have c
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by tdicola 13y ago
Here's a fun prank I made for Sparkfun's April Fools contest. An Arduino Yun acts as a great man in the middle attack on a USB mouse. You can control evil modifications to the mouse (like flipping the axes, buttons, or emulating
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USB mouse man in the middle attack to emulate sticky mechanical mouse(youtube.com)
5 points by tdicola 13y ago|1 comments
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by tdicola 13y ago
I think people are trying to read too much into this device. This is one of many small board computers you can buy today, many of which particularly in the industrial market have x86 processors. If this sells a few hundred thousand boards
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by tdicola 13y ago
This looks neat for people that want a cheap board to hack on embedded Linux. However for serious control of signal generation, acquisition, PWM, servos, etc. you really don't want to be running a multitasking OS. Something like the
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by tdicola 13y ago
Be careful though, the Galileo emulates AVR code and is orders of magnitude slower than a real Arduino. Don't expect to pick up any shield and make it work, unfortunately.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Very cool analysis of the new chip. If I were Intel I would be more than a little concerned about what Apple is up to here. Would be very interesting to see what Cyclone can do in a proper laptop/desktop with more RAM.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Unfortunately at a normal rate of $300/hr or so you're going to rack up well over $2000 in attorney fees.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Having issues on ChromeOS too, can see the head and eyes but it's all very blurry.
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by tdicola 13y ago
It's in Valve's interest to see gaming on Linux succeed so more developers can support their Steambox platform. Nice move on their part to give back to the community.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Are user videos from Peek supposed to be public? I would be a little creeped out if I was the random user from this study and suddenly found my video plastered in a blog post.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Wow, I wonder what Valve is going to do. Maybe time to buy back the augmented reality tech they squandered by firing Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson?
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by tdicola 13y ago
Here's a neat project I made to automatically adjust your monitor color temperature based on ambient light. Think of it like a hardware-based version of f.lux; instead of guessing the color temp in your room based on location, time of
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Show HN: Automatically adjust monitor color temp with hardware.(youtube.com)
1 points by tdicola 13y ago|1 comments
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by tdicola 13y ago
An Arduino is a little more complicated than a breakout for the ATmega. There's a power regulator so you can use any 6-12V supply, a USB to serial converter chip (FT232R), and various passive components to support the chip. The LPC810
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by tdicola 13y ago
Raspberry Pi - seriously fun gadget with a ton of potential. Hacking on one gives me the same kind of joy I had hacking on QBASIC programs as a kid.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Count me in as a fan of makefiles too. Haven't done much with them for frontend stuff but will have to give it a shot. My biggest problem with make is that, kind of like javascript, it's been around for so long it's really
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by tdicola 13y ago
If I want to make a Show HN post that links to a project, and immediately comment to introduce it and fill in details will it have to wait for a 1000+ karma person to endorse it? Any way to make that kind of scenario work a little better?
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by tdicola 13y ago
84 pages to cover 11 points, insane.
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by tdicola 13y ago
I just bought an Acer C720 chromebook as a second machine and am absolutely blown away by how nice it is for $200. You can run Ubuntu (with your choice of window manager) side by side ChromeOS with crouton, or completely replace ChromeOS w
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by tdicola 13y ago
I've done some fun stuff with Arduinos, but sadly when I try to post it here it never makes it to the front page. For example check out this smart cocktail shaker project that uses Arduino & Android with a kitchen scale: http:&#x
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by tdicola 13y ago
Not directly--with only 32kb of program space in the Arduino Uno you can just barely get a wifi stack in (see the CC3000 chip), but there's no room left for SSL or anything secure. A better option is something like the Arduino Yun whic
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by tdicola 13y ago
Interesting analysis, but just to set expectations there is no way you will be taken seriously if you ask for $199k/year as a fresh from college new hire at a large software company in Seattle. $200k+/year in Seattle is well into
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by tdicola 13y ago
Posting a fun project I recently built that folks here might appreciate. The load cell from a cheap kitchen scale is amplified and sent to an Arduino which communicates to an Android application (through bluetooth or USB). By measuring th
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Show HN: Smart cocktail shaker with Arduino and Android(learn.adafruit.com)
4 points by tdicola 13y ago|1 comments
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by tdicola 13y ago
It's fascinating to me that they still keep the Building Windows 8 blog up: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/ You can go back and read the justifications for all the features that are now being redone or pulled ou
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by tdicola 13y ago
I think this is pretty interesting and appreciate that it's presented with working code. I think people freaking out that they're taking our precious integers away are being a little brash. A natural number type could easily be b
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by tdicola 13y ago
Nothing is stopping you from building a natural number/integer on top of a dec64 type. You could add whatever logic necessary like truncating fractional values, throwing exceptions, etc.
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by tdicola 13y ago
What's the deal with all the SR-71 posts in the past few days? They're a cool relic of the cold war age but what has happened recently with them that's warranted all the attention? Also if you're really enamored with th
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by tdicola 13y ago
How long will this realistically last in the new MS-owned Nokia? Will it have the same fate as the Kin?

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