Lightweight, dextrous, "safe" and strong... Granted, it's not got the full range of motion a human arm needs, yet, but this is interesting work. A small pneumatic compresser should be belt- or backpack-mountable, and then it would just need the control and processing electronics. Admittedly that's still kind of a big problem, but at a limb weight of 2lbs, this technology could be an interesting alternative to the "full-metal" approach of current limbs.
Lego bricks. They're Lego bricks. It's a derivative of "leg godt" in Dutch, which means "play well" (source), and a mass noun, not a count noun. How hard can it be to use the correct name for a product?
I'll second that. Bigger, dumber rockets are emphatically NOT a solution to the orbit problem: the waste of engineering and resources is, frankly, disturbing.
Better solutions have been suggested, but as yet no-one with any serious clout is willing to develop them. The Skylon project is currently trying to gather support from a consortium of aerospace companies, after being 'considered' by ESA.
There appear to be ways of getting to orbit that don't involve carrying things up there only to throw them down again, but no-one is listening. Bit of a shame, really.
It IS an incredible pain in the ass, trust me. The reason is, the target registers may not be registers at all, they may just have been integrated into the memory map for ease of use.
On the embedded device I'm currently working with, there are several registers that, when written to, directly manipulate the input pins of a certain chip. Not so easy to read back, hence the shadow registers mentioned in the parent post.
You're not wrong, doesn't look durable somehow, does it? Appearance and its relationship to perceived function is important, more so than most people think.
I remember, in my product-design classes, hearing about a digital camera being designed by a far-eastern company (can't remember who off the top of my head). Initial tests suggested the public felt it was 'cheap', 'tacky', 'toylike'. The exact same unit later shipped with a series of lead weights glued into its casing, to none of the above complaints.
The units on display are just that: display models. They're probably hardly past prototype, and still have that 'sketchy' quality to them. With any luck a more real-world, everyday looking version will arrive later.
Alternatively, go nuts with a sledgehammer, whatever floats your boat;)
Hmm, IIRC the Hindenberg fire wasnt originally related to the hydrogen lift-gas at all, but rather to the aluminium powder coating on the outer hull. The hydrogen fire wasn't good news, but all the burning related to that was up above the ship (heat an hydrogen both rise, y'know). The bad stuff on the ground was mainly falling debris and burning bits of hull.
Not for much longer, at this rate. A couple of friends of mine in the architectural / structural engineering business claim that multi-path elevators are in development. The units use onboard motors etc to climb and descend the track, changing shafts as needed (at specially designed switchyards) to optimise the system's performance at peak times (eg dodging broken-down or stopped cars and so on).
IANA Embedded Systems Developer, but I'm planning on doing an MSc in the field next year.
A development board is essentially a multipurpose computer for prototyping embedded systems. It will have little or no specialist hardware, instead having every port terminated in a socket array. In this way, you can plug together the hardware you want, using the dev board as a 'brain'.
Once your development cycle is complete and you have a working app, you can then transfer to a production board which has none of the excess features of the dev board, and has all the hardware you need built onto the PCB.
I use a simple alphabetic scheme, with machines renamed every time they change drastically (new OS, etc), and make up a name that rolls nicely off the tongue for each letter.
I'm replying via athelus at the mo, while castigan (previously barents) sits quietly in the corner serving irc and http to those that visit me. The parts for demosthenes are lying on my bed at the mo, ready for assembly.
Dull, yes. Uninteresting, probably. A good way to escape work for five mins, certainly!
WTF?! What revenues? The developers are getting donations and the like for the contributions they are making by working for free. This is plain ridiculous, people are putting in their free time to help develop software that will benefit everyone, and giving it away for free.
So yeah, the GIMP should donate a percentage of their revenues. 15% of 0 is still 0:)
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Lightweight, dextrous, "safe" and strong... Granted, it's not got the full range of motion a human arm needs, yet, but this is interesting work. A small pneumatic compresser should be belt- or backpack-mountable, and then it would just need the control and processing electronics. Admittedly that's still kind of a big problem, but at a limb weight of 2lbs, this technology could be an interesting alternative to the "full-metal" approach of current limbs.
*sigh* Legos, sheeps, fishs...
Lego bricks. They're Lego bricks. It's a derivative of "leg godt" in Dutch, which means "play well" (source), and a mass noun, not a count noun. How hard can it be to use the correct name for a product?
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I'll second that. Bigger, dumber rockets are emphatically NOT a solution to the orbit problem: the waste of engineering and resources is, frankly, disturbing.
Better solutions have been suggested, but as yet no-one with any serious clout is willing to develop them. The Skylon project is currently trying to gather support from a consortium of aerospace companies, after being 'considered' by ESA.
There appear to be ways of getting to orbit that don't involve carrying things up there only to throw them down again, but no-one is listening. Bit of a shame, really.
It IS an incredible pain in the ass, trust me. The reason is, the target registers may not be registers at all, they may just have been integrated into the memory map for ease of use.
On the embedded device I'm currently working with, there are several registers that, when written to, directly manipulate the input pins of a certain chip. Not so easy to read back, hence the shadow registers mentioned in the parent post.
Possibly more patent carpet-bombing, but your point is well made...
You're not wrong, doesn't look durable somehow, does it? Appearance and its relationship to perceived function is important, more so than most people think.
;)
I remember, in my product-design classes, hearing about a digital camera being designed by a far-eastern company (can't remember who off the top of my head). Initial tests suggested the public felt it was 'cheap', 'tacky', 'toylike'. The exact same unit later shipped with a series of lead weights glued into its casing, to none of the above complaints.
The units on display are just that: display models. They're probably hardly past prototype, and still have that 'sketchy' quality to them. With any luck a more real-world, everyday looking version will arrive later.
Alternatively, go nuts with a sledgehammer, whatever floats your boat
Hmm, IIRC the Hindenberg fire wasnt originally related to the hydrogen lift-gas at all, but rather to the aluminium powder coating on the outer hull. The hydrogen fire wasn't good news, but all the burning related to that was up above the ship (heat an hydrogen both rise, y'know). The bad stuff on the ground was mainly falling debris and burning bits of hull.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster http://www.clean-air.org/hindenberg.htm
Not for much longer, at this rate. A couple of friends of mine in the architectural / structural engineering business claim that multi-path elevators are in development. The units use onboard motors etc to climb and descend the track, changing shafts as needed (at specially designed switchyards) to optimise the system's performance at peak times (eg dodging broken-down or stopped cars and so on).
Sounds pretty cool.
No no no, you'll never make geek at this rate. The quote is '...and hope they don't have blasters!'
IANA Embedded Systems Developer, but I'm planning on doing an MSc in the field next year.
A development board is essentially a multipurpose computer for prototyping embedded systems. It will have little or no specialist hardware, instead having every port terminated in a socket array. In this way, you can plug together the hardware you want, using the dev board as a 'brain'.
Once your development cycle is complete and you have a working app, you can then transfer to a production board which has none of the excess features of the dev board, and has all the hardware you need built onto the PCB.
Hope this helps
Guess I'll toss in my two cents...
I use a simple alphabetic scheme, with machines renamed every time they change drastically (new OS, etc), and make up a name that rolls nicely off the tongue for each letter.
I'm replying via athelus at the mo, while castigan (previously barents) sits quietly in the corner serving irc and http to those that visit me. The parts for demosthenes are lying on my bed at the mo, ready for assembly.
Dull, yes. Uninteresting, probably. A good way to escape work for five mins, certainly!
WTF?! What revenues? The developers are getting donations and the like for the contributions they are making by working for free. This is plain ridiculous, people are putting in their free time to help develop software that will benefit everyone, and giving it away for free.
:)
So yeah, the GIMP should donate a percentage of their revenues. 15% of 0 is still 0
Mmm, Transmetropolitan moment here...
I always wanted one of these, there's so many fleetingly beautiful moments in life.