Last year for a highschool electronics project I took an 8052 microcontroller (64 pin Atmel 89C51RD2.. bloody nightmare to solder point to point) and hooked it up to an old Realtek 8019AS ISA network card. Loaded Adam Dunkels' open source uIP tcp/ip stack and webserver onto the micro and attached one of those little serial radio transmitter/reciever modules to the serial port. The plan was that the 8052 would act as a kind of access point for smaller discreet wireless PICAXE controllers to communicate via the radio modules. So you could have the PICAXEs sitting around the house, reporting simple sensor values like the temperature of your toilet seat and reporting those values back to the 8052 access point which would then act as a low-throughput webserver or somesuch. Or it could go the other way, and you might have a small PICAXE hooked up to an LCD as a stock ticker or weather thing that gets values from the 8052 access point.
Pity I never got it finished in time for the competition, but yeah, I think that's probably the coolest thing I've made. My next big project is sending a homemade ocean drifting buoy across the pacific to send back weather data via amateur radio satellites, which might be a tad more challenging:)
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It's an "anti-loitering" device, not anti-teenager
No, it's anti-teenager. A 45 year old loiterer won't be affected. Only teenagers are affected by this device. It's comparable to a gun that only shoots black people. Where is my right as a non-loitering teenager to walk past a store undisturbed by a device that could be potentially damaging and incredibly annoying?
Yeah, but all they'll do is announce it, and then release it later on..
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uh, yeah, because 1.2% of the population is a [i]tiny[/i] amount of people..
we may survive with better technology, sanitation and understanding of genetics, but this is going to be a humanitarian disaster for the third world if it breaks out.
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Hah, this coming from someone with "lifeaftertheoilcrash.net" in their sig..
Don't forget the Spanish Flu Pandemic that killed 25-50 million people last century.. I think we could be looking at a similar scale of destruction with the modern bird flu.
The whole idea of naming Martian items is because they have scientific importance, or are geographically important. The rovers probably look very closely at some items, so it's convenient to name even tiny items rather than just saying "that rock/plateau/hill over there".
Let me put it this way, Mr. Amer. The 5 series is the most reliable limb ever made. No 5 series limb has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
I'm 15 years old and I've almost finished CCNA 1. I have a friend the same age who has microsoft certification. I was starting out on C when I was 9 years old (never bothered to learn BASIC even to this day) but I don't think I could have passed a certification back then.
I'm sure some kids with the right access to technology may have been able to pass one though - having said that, I'm inclined to think she had a lot of "assistance" or fluked it, because the answers generally aren't too straight-foward and require a lot of knowledge of microsoft quirks and lingo. Also I don't think a 9 year old could be capable of C#.. C or BASIC, maybe, but nothing more than that.
When open-source developers go through all the trouble to reverse-engineer hardware and write drivers, but don't bother to document their results properly.
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Never mind if you [i]can't move[/i]..
Last year for a highschool electronics project I took an 8052 microcontroller (64 pin Atmel 89C51RD2.. bloody nightmare to solder point to point) and hooked it up to an old Realtek 8019AS ISA network card. Loaded Adam Dunkels' open source uIP tcp/ip stack and webserver onto the micro and attached one of those little serial radio transmitter/reciever modules to the serial port. The plan was that the 8052 would act as a kind of access point for smaller discreet wireless PICAXE controllers to communicate via the radio modules. So you could have the PICAXEs sitting around the house, reporting simple sensor values like the temperature of your toilet seat and reporting those values back to the 8052 access point which would then act as a low-throughput webserver or somesuch. Or it could go the other way, and you might have a small PICAXE hooked up to an LCD as a stock ticker or weather thing that gets values from the 8052 access point.
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Pity I never got it finished in time for the competition, but yeah, I think that's probably the coolest thing I've made. My next big project is sending a homemade ocean drifting buoy across the pacific to send back weather data via amateur radio satellites, which might be a tad more challenging
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A long-range rifle that shoots hydrogen bombs. Think about THAT.
Statistically speaking people with collage educations are more likely to be liberals
So.. statistically speaking, you're a conservative?
I actually browsed over your interstellar propulsion idea a while ago while browsing NASA. Great job!
Hello anonymous coward. We now live in a modern and reasonable society where child abuse is generally frowned upon.
It's an "anti-loitering" device, not anti-teenager
No, it's anti-teenager. A 45 year old loiterer won't be affected. Only teenagers are affected by this device. It's comparable to a gun that only shoots black people.
Where is my right as a non-loitering teenager to walk past a store undisturbed by a device that could be potentially damaging and incredibly annoying?
Yeah, but all they'll do is announce it, and then release it later on..
uh, yeah, because 1.2% of the population is a [i]tiny[/i] amount of people.. we may survive with better technology, sanitation and understanding of genetics, but this is going to be a humanitarian disaster for the third world if it breaks out.
Hah, this coming from someone with "lifeaftertheoilcrash.net" in their sig..
Who cares about the book? This is just a chance for /. to throw around some bad jokes :P
Don't forget the Spanish Flu Pandemic that killed 25-50 million people last century.. I think we could be looking at a similar scale of destruction with the modern bird flu.
if x=y, then x+y=y can't work.
How is this in any way original to countless other FPS games?
The whole idea of naming Martian items is because they have scientific importance, or are geographically important. The rovers probably look very closely at some items, so it's convenient to name even tiny items rather than just saying "that rock/plateau/hill over there".
Safari also does this.
NASA scientists charged for developing extensive peer-to-peer filesharing system disguised as "self repairing ant logic"
Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! Heart!
Let me put it this way, Mr. Amer. The 5 series is the most reliable limb ever made. No 5 series limb has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
I was starting out on C when I was 9 years old (never bothered to learn BASIC even to this day) but I don't think I could have passed a certification back then.
I'm sure some kids with the right access to technology may have been able to pass one though - having said that, I'm inclined to think she had a lot of "assistance" or fluked it, because the answers generally aren't too straight-foward and require a lot of knowledge of microsoft quirks and lingo. Also I don't think a 9 year old could be capable of C#.. C or BASIC, maybe, but nothing more than that.
No, kids are taught the _easy_ way, and that causes them to lose interest.
New Zealand only has a population of 4 million people, and we don't have coast to coast wireless. I think it's more a matter of land area.
When open-source developers go through all the trouble to reverse-engineer hardware and write drivers, but don't bother to document their results properly.