The advantage of starting with the Arduino is the libraries, and all the prebuilt prototype peripherals, in the form of shields, that you can just plug into your own design and use.
A bare bones ISP is also perfectly usable, but you by necessity start at a much lower level than you do when taking advantage of the libraries and hardware resources already established in the Arduino family.
You have a point, but Altium is actually a very expensive EDA 'seat' so it will act as a barrier to people being able to just pick up the files and view/edit/revise them. As I mention below, gEDA would be the ultimate tool to use to create the design files.
Eagle would be another alternative. It's popular, and low-cost for hobbyists. It's not Free or open source, but it's available at a price approachable by people without high-four-figures budgeted for each designer 'seat.' There is a limited completely-free version, and even a hobbyist license version that gives you the full-bore Eagle design seat for under $200 so long as it's for non-commercial projects.
If you don't mind through-hole pin processors, you can buy a socketed Arduino UNO and use it as the device programmer. You need to push the low level stuff into each chip to make it work in the Arduino board, but that's fairly trivial and then you can program the chips on the Uno and pull them to deploy.
A lot of us just buy little tiny daughterboards with FTDI chips on them, for our microcontroller projects. You plug 'em in and the USB hassle is solved.
USB really has been an ugly thing for some of us who for years liked being able to just hang a microcontroller project off a PC's serial port using a MAX232 chip, voltage level shifters or even just a few resistors. Turnkey USB i/o modules bring some of that back.
The 'public record' thing that bothers me is that the whole point of Hillary having a private email server was to conceal her email traffic from the 'public record.'
Also, I am wondering if Obama is going to put this whole archive on an iPad and present it to Queen Elizabeth II.
Said speakers don't need to have a 'flat' frequency response above 20KHz. They just need to be capable of emitting a detectable level. The speakers may be very inefficient, but quite capable of producing enough high frequency output to be detectable.
The thing is, many things can be used as microphones if properly manipulated. The first to come to mind is the speakers. If they're not being used to emit sound and they have a permanent magnet and a coil, they are already a microphone, and a path backwards from the circuit that usually drives them just needs to be established.
Resistors, capacitors, all sorts of electronic components react to sound and vibration by altering their characteristics. If there's an A/D on your phone monitoring battery voltage, it might be possible to use it to 'pick up' battery supply line current fluctiations based on sound/vibration your mobile device is exposed to.
would love to buy another small truck like the old 1992 Mazda B2200 I owned, which was good enough to throw a few sheets of plywood into, but could drive around for two weeks or more on a single tank of gas.
Ford is about to reintroduce a new Ford Ranger into the US market. It's coming soon.
A good number of the import-brand cars made in the US are made without the cumbersome US trade unions. Also, the Japanese companies that produce cars in the US use modern Japanese design and production practices.
Anybody who works in the automotive supply chain for General Motors, and probably even Ford to a certain degree, knows what giant bumbling operations the US automakers run.
The Ford Ranger is coming back to the US, soon, also. It's probably more practical as a light truck than the F150 which is a full-size. An electric Ford Ranger would be nice.
A really big part of the good that will come out of a Trump presidency is that Congress will now clip the wings of the Executive Branch and widespread out-of-control Executive Orders will become a thing of the past.
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The advantage of starting with the Arduino is the libraries, and all the prebuilt prototype peripherals, in the form of shields, that you can just plug into your own design and use.
A bare bones ISP is also perfectly usable, but you by necessity start at a much lower level than you do when taking advantage of the libraries and hardware resources already established in the Arduino family.
You have a point, but Altium is actually a very expensive EDA 'seat' so it will act as a barrier to people being able to just pick up the files and view/edit/revise them. As I mention below, gEDA would be the ultimate tool to use to create the design files.
Eagle would be another alternative. It's popular, and low-cost for hobbyists. It's not Free or open source, but it's available at a price approachable by people without high-four-figures budgeted for each designer 'seat.' There is a limited completely-free version, and even a hobbyist license version that gives you the full-bore Eagle design seat for under $200 so long as it's for non-commercial projects.
It's unfortunate, because the design would probably fit perfectly well into gEDA. Then it would be completely open-source editable.
If you don't mind through-hole pin processors, you can buy a socketed Arduino UNO and use it as the device programmer. You need to push the low level stuff into each chip to make it work in the Arduino board, but that's fairly trivial and then you can program the chips on the Uno and pull them to deploy.
A lot of us just buy little tiny daughterboards with FTDI chips on them, for our microcontroller projects. You plug 'em in and the USB hassle is solved.
USB really has been an ugly thing for some of us who for years liked being able to just hang a microcontroller project off a PC's serial port using a MAX232 chip, voltage level shifters or even just a few resistors. Turnkey USB i/o modules bring some of that back.
You think they will only have one chassis/cab style? You think the marketing clowns would put one of the 'stripped' versions in the advance publicity?
Are they really allocating 49 pins on the CPU package to the address bus?
Will there be Vega-SX parts that are in much cheaper packages and only put out 40 pins?
I think he meant SKUs in retail outlets and in eShops that can be ordered, not vapor-hardware at a trade show.
1982 was the year of AMD hardware.
And we are completely safe from said lifeforms, since nothing they do will ever emerge.
Person A: "Is it bricked, or just really really busy?"
Person B: "Hmmm, maybe if we wait a little longer..."
You just spend two hours loading everything into the GPU's memory. Then you start managing it, updating what parts of it change, etc.
That PCIe bandwidth you mentioned? It's pretty scanty when you're shuttling 512 TB of data through it.
The 'public record' thing that bothers me is that the whole point of Hillary having a private email server was to conceal her email traffic from the 'public record.'
Also, I am wondering if Obama is going to put this whole archive on an iPad and present it to Queen Elizabeth II.
90%? Where did you come up with that figure?
The compromised app doesn't send a constant stream of data over the internet. It sends a very short burst of information infrequently.
And the compromised app is located on anybody else's device within hearing range.
Said speakers don't need to have a 'flat' frequency response above 20KHz. They just need to be capable of emitting a detectable level. The speakers may be very inefficient, but quite capable of producing enough high frequency output to be detectable.
If you have children, be careful, because they might kill you in your sleep.
The thing is, many things can be used as microphones if properly manipulated. The first to come to mind is the speakers. If they're not being used to emit sound and they have a permanent magnet and a coil, they are already a microphone, and a path backwards from the circuit that usually drives them just needs to be established.
Resistors, capacitors, all sorts of electronic components react to sound and vibration by altering their characteristics. If there's an A/D on your phone monitoring battery voltage, it might be possible to use it to 'pick up' battery supply line current fluctiations based on sound/vibration your mobile device is exposed to.
Apparently they're shipping all that old Escort tooling down to Mexico. It makes sense to do something with it.
would love to buy another small truck like the old 1992 Mazda B2200 I owned, which was good enough to throw a few sheets of plywood into, but could drive around for two weeks or more on a single tank of gas.
Ford is about to reintroduce a new Ford Ranger into the US market. It's coming soon.
and using lightweight materials (aluminum bodies in the F-series).
Ford even has had one of their competitors advertising the message:
"If you are enough of a dumbfuck to dump a load of cement block into the bed of your truck from a height, you're probably dumb enough to buy a Chevy."
Hillary wanted to reignite the Cold War with Russia. Over a energy pipeline in Syria that we're not allowed to mention here in the U.S.
She was hoping, it seems, to become the Lyndon Johnson of the 21st Century.
So sad, too bad.
Of course it's a "sweet ride" if it's brand new. Give it 3 or 4 months to start falling apart.
My Ford Ranger is a 2006, and it has 190K miles. It's been a durable and reliable ride since I bought it new ten years ago.
A good number of the import-brand cars made in the US are made without the cumbersome US trade unions. Also, the Japanese companies that produce cars in the US use modern Japanese design and production practices.
Anybody who works in the automotive supply chain for General Motors, and probably even Ford to a certain degree, knows what giant bumbling operations the US automakers run.
The Ford Ranger is coming back to the US, soon, also. It's probably more practical as a light truck than the F150 which is a full-size. An electric Ford Ranger would be nice.
A really big part of the good that will come out of a Trump presidency is that Congress will now clip the wings of the Executive Branch and widespread out-of-control Executive Orders will become a thing of the past.