Here's what, pretty much verbatim, I submitted to Ramsey Electronics; I've been looking for a compact wireless A/V link for R/C flight:
--snip--
I've just started getting involved in electric R/C aircraft and was looking for something light enough to fit in the cockpit, to let me "fly the plane from the inside." I wanted something with the audio channel (low bandwidth) so I could easily transmit raw accelerometer data and other telemetry back to ground, you know, like a modem over telephone lines?
How else am I supposed to do this? Strap a camcorder and a cellphone to the wings and hope that gravity will magically turn itself off when I'm flying?
Looks like I'll have to wait for your government to get it's head out of the sand before I can buy the kit.
Thoughts on the other items. If I want to have a security system that won't be disabled the moment a burglar breaks into my home, wouldn't I want something that doesn't look like a camera and doesn't have obvious wires that can be traced and/or cut? If people can already see onto my porch or into my back-yard, then transmitting that same picture will have little if any impact on my privacy; the primary purpose of a hidden camera is to not be easily disabled in the event of a burglary or similar such event. That's why stores and other commercial establishments use them; to witness shoplifting.
--snip--
If stores can hide cameras on their premises, why can't we hide them in our own homes?
...those are just some starting points. Embedded computing applications have the hardware designed for rugged environments, and amateur radio is a handy technical resource for do-it-yourself electronics. Remote relay stations are the norm, not to mention other extremes.
Search engines are your friends, particularly Google.
A personal observation, based on my music background (viola, bass and piano). It's a lot easier to play a sequence of notes using multiple fingers on a single hand than single fingers on alternating hands.
I think it's a synchronization thing. Try drumming the finger tips of one hand on a table top. Now try alternating hands, tapping one finger with one, one finger on the other, etc. It can be done, but the average person is more likely to trip up and tap fingers on two hands at once.
So, while I do agree with the hammer-jamming reason, I don't agree with your speed through alternating hands conclusion. YMMV, as always, and I do agree that it would be an extreme hassle to relearn a different layout after using QWERTY for so long.
So on one hand Linus has a vision, where his focus was on designing Linux for appliances smaller than laptops rather than putting it on desktops, and on the other we have Amiga's Internet appliance plans, not to mention their support for Linux.
There was an article a while back about just such a technology. Someone had demonstrated a very thin, active (as in working, not active-matrix) LCD display embedded just below the surface of the skin in the wrist, about a year ago...
Can't find a reference to it right now though. Anyone?
One of the reasons why this article caught my interest and I submitted it was because a co-worker attended this conference. Lab-on-a-chip (in general) seems to be a hot topic in the MEMS community.
...for an artist to take the initiative and define their presence online right from the start.
On a related note, I got an autographed copy of Vanessa's Plutonium Glow album by ordering it directly from her (website) and asking for the autograph. I thought that was neat.:-)
Any plans to have a "submitted-articles-posted" adjustment incorporated into the karma calculation?
Just noticing that, although I've had a few of my submissions posted over the past few weeks, it hasn't affected my karma level. Only moderation of comments posted in discussions has affected it.
How much would spiral-binding paper-back versions of books cost compared to hard-cover binding? Metal or plastic?
That's my own preference, for which I would be willing to pay a little extra. It's nice being able to lay a spiral-bound document down flat, or wrap the pages around so it only occupies a page-space on the desk.
Don't know how healthy this is (heavy doses of RF being "not very"), but it certainly sounds like an effective way to neutralize eavesdropping devices.
And if you want to enforce a no-vehicle zone... Instant barracade/blockade. Any guesses as to when we'll see these being used by Greenpeace?
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Here's what, pretty much verbatim, I submitted to Ramsey Electronics; I've been looking for a compact wireless A/V link for R/C flight:
--snip--
I've just started getting involved in electric R/C aircraft and was looking for something light enough to fit in the cockpit, to let me "fly the plane from the inside." I wanted something with the audio channel (low bandwidth) so I could easily transmit raw accelerometer data and other telemetry back to ground, you know, like a modem over telephone lines?
How else am I supposed to do this? Strap a camcorder and a cellphone to the wings and hope that gravity will magically turn itself off when I'm flying?
Looks like I'll have to wait for your government to get it's head out of the sand before I can buy the kit.
Thoughts on the other items. If I want to have a security system that won't be disabled the moment a burglar breaks into my home, wouldn't I want something that doesn't look like a camera and doesn't have obvious wires that can be traced and/or cut? If people can already see onto my porch or into my back-yard, then transmitting that same picture will have little if any impact on my privacy; the primary purpose of a hidden camera is to not be easily disabled in the event of a burglary or similar such event. That's why stores and other commercial establishments use them; to witness shoplifting.
--snip--
If stores can hide cameras on their premises, why can't we hide them in our own homes?
...that's my two cents.
Just think, Da Vinci did founding work and research on the subject five-hundred years ago!
Just had a thought. (uh oh :-)
You could use one of these robots (or a wheelchair-size version) to map out the un/accessibility of a building...
The two primary resources I'd recommend looking into are:
- Embedded Computing
- ARRL
- RAC
...those are just some starting points. Embedded computing applications have the hardware designed for rugged environments, and amateur radio is a handy technical resource for do-it-yourself electronics. Remote relay stations are the norm, not to mention other extremes.
Search engines are your friends, particularly Google.
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Check out Circuit Cellar if you like the hardware side of computing magazines.
This is the only non-IEEE magazine I subscribe to. Everything else I pick off the bookstore shelf, as I see fit.
A personal observation, based on my music background (viola, bass and piano). It's a lot easier to play a sequence of notes using multiple fingers on a single hand than single fingers on alternating hands.
I think it's a synchronization thing. Try drumming the finger tips of one hand on a table top. Now try alternating hands, tapping one finger with one, one finger on the other, etc. It can be done, but the average person is more likely to trip up and tap fingers on two hands at once.
So, while I do agree with the hammer-jamming reason, I don't agree with your speed through alternating hands conclusion. YMMV, as always, and I do agree that it would be an extreme hassle to relearn a different layout after using QWERTY for so long.
Brings back memories of those ICON computers we used to use. The more things change...
So on one hand Linus has a vision, where his focus was on designing Linux for appliances smaller than laptops rather than putting it on desktops, and on the other we have Amiga's Internet appliance plans, not to mention their support for Linux.
Thoughts?
Had a second look; missed that line.
K, what I wanna know is, could you walk through a mine-field in one of these and survive a blast?
If so, it would be ideal mine-sweep armour.
There's a new article at the Wired News site:
Slashdot Enters Dutch IPO Oven
There was an article a while back about just such a technology. Someone had demonstrated a very thin, active (as in working, not active-matrix) LCD display embedded just below the surface of the skin in the wrist, about a year ago...
Can't find a reference to it right now though. Anyone?
One of the reasons why this article caught my interest and I submitted it was because a co-worker attended this conference. Lab-on-a-chip (in general) seems to be a hot topic in the MEMS community.
...for an artist to take the initiative and define their presence online right from the start.
:-)
On a related note, I got an autographed copy of Vanessa's Plutonium Glow album by ordering it directly from her (website) and asking for the autograph. I thought that was neat.
You're correct about the strict OSI layer definition of physical layer.
I was thinking about it more in terms of being a dedicated chip-set (physical hardware) when I submitted the article.
This little bit from the end of the license amused a bit:
;-)
Copyright (C) 19yy [name of author].
The license is only good for a couple more months!
Now it's actually available.
Any plans to have a "submitted-articles-posted" adjustment incorporated into the karma calculation?
Just noticing that, although I've had a few of my submissions posted over the past few weeks, it hasn't affected my karma level. Only moderation of comments posted in discussions has affected it.
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a similar project - a sphere of heavy-water buried 2km underground.
I asked this in the SAP discussion, but it fits in more in this one.
Any word on when/if Linux/Beowolf will will run on one of these?
Any word on when LinuxPPC will run the SAP benchmark on one of these?
The thought of a flock of 4,096 MPC7400 (aka G4) processors running the penguin, with 16 terabytes of shared memory...
How much would spiral-binding paper-back versions of books cost compared to hard-cover binding? Metal or plastic?
That's my own preference, for which I would be willing to pay a little extra. It's nice being able to lay a spiral-bound document down flat, or wrap the pages around so it only occupies a page-space on the desk.
Kind of like setting a Star Trek phaser on overload.
Set it beside the target device, key in the burst sequence, and walk away.
Don't know how healthy this is (heavy doses of RF being "not very"), but it certainly sounds like an effective way to neutralize eavesdropping devices.
And if you want to enforce a no-vehicle zone... Instant barracade/blockade. Any guesses as to when we'll see these being used by Greenpeace?