permanent magnet is fixed, coils rotate with LEDs. easy peasy. Think of it this way with a common DC motor: The shaft is clamped to the pole, and the body of the motor is attached to the propeller. So the wiring all lives on the propeller.
This is the sort of stuff you make in elementary or jr. high school.
He may or may not be a troll, but I work for a HUGE company, and they dumped all the Crack-Berrys and went all-in on windows phones. I was not surprised that they did that, as we are microsoft to the core (with all the benefits that entails, like blue screens galore). Before the giant black-berry purge, I had not actually seen a windows phone in the wild.
Apparently our IT folks examined the smart-phone landscape and something (hopefully) smart pushed them to WP7. so the GP may have a point.
BTW, I hate the cut-off text of WP7, and would not buy one with my money.
I worry what the world will look like in 50 years.
I don't worry at all. Lots of those "special snowflakes" will be holding cardboard signs looking for work or a handout. Just like the burnouts from my era. My burnouts spent time smoking pot and not learning life skills, and "snotly" the home-schooled kid has spent too much time being brainwashed; the outcome is the same. No marketable skills == no job
Currently the unemployment rate is about 9%, but of college graduates in hard sciences and engineering, the rates are at or below 4%. (can't remember citation, read it a couple months ago). Snotly, screechy, and the other home-schooled social outcasts will be part of the 9% unless they can throw off the shackles and make something of themselves.
You are kindly invited to visit the midwest, a land of giant churches every couple hundred feet, and traffic cops assisting with the traffic snarls outside the church parking lots. I never would have believed it either until I moved to Indiana. Someday I hope to return to the first world.
Yeah, post-graduate studies in art-history. As a PhD in a hard science, and considering the dozen or so PhD's I'm close enough with to know their beliefs, I'd say my informal poll comes in significantly lower than 42%.
I'd be super happy with the streaming only if they have more than a few titles available for streaming. I'd bet there would be a whole lot less rage if they said:
1) we are splitting the plans and raising the rates on the combination. But: 2) we are vastly increasing your streaming offerings so many of you will save money by streaming only.
The streaming offerings are crazy at times. For example they will have three of four disks of a series available for streaming, but they 4th is by mail only. WTF?!
I've got news for them: all the disks are available for streaming guys. And they are available for streaming for free...
I've driven over a thousand miles in the last three years in the british isles, and I really like roundabouts. I also drive in Carmel IN several times a year, and roundabouts here are a whole different ballgame. The British isles have roads that are small and terrain that makes them not arrow straight (like in Carmel). Many british roads are only one lane with "passing places". These passing place roads would kill american drivers. So it seems that the British citizenry seem to understand that the road is not "theirs" and everybody is in this together. So there is a sense of cooperation.
The Carmel roundabouts are driven by people who are used to lanes that are 30 feet wide, and who have a sense of entitlement that their Yukon Denali is here now, and everybody better get out of the way. Then you throw in a mix of confused drivers and aggressive drivers, and the Carmel roundabouts aren't as enjoyable as the british ones.
But honestly, Must things suck in America compared to the british isles.
Don't get me started about the lack of proper transmissions here in the states; we apparently think our cars should be golf carts.
I must be the only person who thought that feature was nice. Given that it's not shared with anybody, it is nothing but useful for me.
When I go on vacation or someplace interesting, I drag along a GPS logger so I know where I've been, and I can geolocate my pictures. I have to take another device in my backpack and keep it charged etc. If my phone did that, I'd be happy as hell. There are apps for that, but they suck serious battery. This low resolution database would be a nice compliment to to the GPS logger.
They knew this on iPhone launch day in 2007. They are very aware of the happenings on their network. It took them this long to publicly admit what is painfully obvious to everyone (it's a running joke). That says more about the company ethos and management's opinion of it's customers than if they didn't realize that their service was being pounded.
Don't forget you need to put a person or two in there. I live in the midwest, so in this area we'd be dumping two starch-eating 250lb-ers in there. And maybe a raft of screaming kids (it is a breeder colony out here). Now that 21:1 weight ratio is a 34:1 assuming you don't have some 50lb "special snowflakes" in the back.
With AT&T and my 1st gen iPhone, all calls would go to voicemail if I was using a streaming data connection. I would have loved it if they didn't but the unreliability was very reliable.
I use this feature all the time. I have a nice modidied Dension cradle in my car and I stream pandora and other media perpetually when I'm in the car. On Verizon, I'd never get a phone call when in the car.
When talking to friends, wife, etc, it's super nice to be talking about something on the phone and fire of a photo and email it to them while talking.
Being able to use google maps while on the phone is HUGE.
Being able to look something up on the web while talking about it is big.
I spent two years with an edge iPhone and let me tell you, the simultaneous voice and data was the best improvement in the 3G coverage. More so than speed even for my usage.
It seems really pretty dumb to stream media (except when on travel or sharing a few recent photos) from the smallest device you own in terms of storage space, and battery life. I want to be able to stream from my Mac (PC whatever) TO the iOS devices. I'm perfectly fine with limiting the formats so I have to transcode on the sender. That would make the appleTV a perfect media center thin client. It would also give me all sorts of music when mowing the grass for instance with my phone. I could watch a movie in bed that I just downloaded from the net without adding media that might be a one-time viewing into my iTunes library and syncing.
Apple already does this with the airport express and DAAP (and friends: DMAP, DPAP), this should not be a big leap to treat my iPhone as an airport express of sorts.
First the survey of DIY is very limited. It is a robots and computer hackery biased. There's a ton of very vibrant DIY sites out there, Take for example DIYAudio.com, that place has hundreds or thousands of posts per day. And there are industry giants contributing.
There's a ton of restoration sites like OWWM.com (Old Wood Working Machines, but also does metalworking machines). Along the lines of the CMU computer geekery is places like CNCZone.com. Then there's the more web1.0 sorts of places like the bicycle frambuilders list (http://www.phred.org/mailman/listinfo/framebuilders). DIY is very vibrant on the interwebs and there's a whole lot more of it going on than this survey takes into account.
Also Instructables is pretty weak. Instructables is to DIY as McDonalds is to fine dining.
This serial port has been around forever. All those cars with iPod integration use it for control and data. I've controlled the iPod functionality on every iPod I've had (since 3rd gen) as well as three iPhones using an Atmega controller. I year or so I shared some controller code for Arduino based atmega microconrollers.
Here's how you control your iPhone or iPod music with an Arduino, easy peasy:
Sheldon
*/* Control iPod/iPhones from Arduino
Sheldon Stokes
Jan 3, 2009
Standing on the shoulders of ipodLinux.org
http://ipodlinux.org/wiki/Apple_Accessory_Protocol
This send comands to the iPod as though it were a remote.
These are the simple 2 byte commands that should work on all
Apple iPods and iPhones starting with the 3rd Generation iPod
I'm all for using my products as I see fit, but there's a dark side to the PSBreak for me, and that's cheating on online games. I don't really care about the piracy or Sony's bottom line. But I do know back in the dark ages of online play when people got aimbots in Quake3, online play really started to suck, and I lost interest in the game really quickly. That undermining of the level playing field that makes online play fun is a bigger threat to Sony's bottom line than piracy or people doing protein folding when the console is idle.
I don't agree with that. The materials, fit and finish of the iPhone 4 is much better than my 1st gen or 3GS. If there is blame to be had, it's that the designers won over the engineers.
The older designs was easy to feel which was the fragile surface when it was in your pocket (and I kept the glass inward). With the new design, sure it looks good, but it's a whole lot harder to tell when the expensive side is facing outward.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey do you work in my company?!? I'm the third cube on the right at the top of the stairs.
permanent magnet is fixed, coils rotate with LEDs. easy peasy. Think of it this way with a common DC motor: The shaft is clamped to the pole, and the body of the motor is attached to the propeller. So the wiring all lives on the propeller.
This is the sort of stuff you make in elementary or jr. high school.
Sheldon
He may or may not be a troll, but I work for a HUGE company, and they dumped all the Crack-Berrys and went all-in on windows phones. I was not surprised that they did that, as we are microsoft to the core (with all the benefits that entails, like blue screens galore). Before the giant black-berry purge, I had not actually seen a windows phone in the wild.
Apparently our IT folks examined the smart-phone landscape and something (hopefully) smart pushed them to WP7. so the GP may have a point.
BTW, I hate the cut-off text of WP7, and would not buy one with my money.
Sheldon
Plus one way pagers are allowed into places that no cell phone would be allowed. like all tech, they have a place
Sheldon
I worry what the world will look like in 50 years.
I don't worry at all. Lots of those "special snowflakes" will be holding cardboard signs looking for work or a handout. Just like the burnouts from my era. My burnouts spent time smoking pot and not learning life skills, and "snotly" the home-schooled kid has spent too much time being brainwashed; the outcome is the same. No marketable skills == no job
Currently the unemployment rate is about 9%, but of college graduates in hard sciences and engineering, the rates are at or below 4%. (can't remember citation, read it a couple months ago). Snotly, screechy, and the other home-schooled social outcasts will be part of the 9% unless they can throw off the shackles and make something of themselves.
Sir,
You are kindly invited to visit the midwest, a land of giant churches every couple hundred feet, and traffic cops assisting with the traffic snarls outside the church parking lots. I never would have believed it either until I moved to Indiana. Someday I hope to return to the first world.
Sheldon
Yeah, post-graduate studies in art-history. As a PhD in a hard science, and considering the dozen or so PhD's I'm close enough with to know their beliefs, I'd say my informal poll comes in significantly lower than 42%.
Sheldon
I left half a CPU in your mother last night...
I'd be super happy with the streaming only if they have more than a few titles available for streaming. I'd bet there would be a whole lot less rage if they said:
1) we are splitting the plans and raising the rates on the combination. But:
2) we are vastly increasing your streaming offerings so many of you will save money by streaming only.
The streaming offerings are crazy at times. For example they will have three of four disks of a series available for streaming, but they 4th is by mail only. WTF?!
I've got news for them: all the disks are available for streaming guys. And they are available for streaming for free...
Sheldon
I've driven over a thousand miles in the last three years in the british isles, and I really like roundabouts. I also drive in Carmel IN several times a year, and roundabouts here are a whole different ballgame. The British isles have roads that are small and terrain that makes them not arrow straight (like in Carmel). Many british roads are only one lane with "passing places". These passing place roads would kill american drivers. So it seems that the British citizenry seem to understand that the road is not "theirs" and everybody is in this together. So there is a sense of cooperation.
The Carmel roundabouts are driven by people who are used to lanes that are 30 feet wide, and who have a sense of entitlement that their Yukon Denali is here now, and everybody better get out of the way. Then you throw in a mix of confused drivers and aggressive drivers, and the Carmel roundabouts aren't as enjoyable as the british ones.
But honestly, Must things suck in America compared to the british isles.
Don't get me started about the lack of proper transmissions here in the states; we apparently think our cars should be golf carts.
Sheldon
Quick! Move all the old junk in "The Black Hole" to a safe location:
http://www.blackholesurplus.com/
Sheldon
Also fix that burning sensation when I pee...
Sheldon
I must be the only person who thought that feature was nice. Given that it's not shared with anybody, it is nothing but useful for me.
When I go on vacation or someplace interesting, I drag along a GPS logger so I know where I've been, and I can geolocate my pictures. I have to take another device in my backpack and keep it charged etc. If my phone did that, I'd be happy as hell. There are apps for that, but they suck serious battery. This low resolution database would be a nice compliment to to the GPS logger.
Sheldon
They knew this on iPhone launch day in 2007. They are very aware of the happenings on their network. It took them this long to publicly admit what is painfully obvious to everyone (it's a running joke). That says more about the company ethos and management's opinion of it's customers than if they didn't realize that their service was being pounded.
Sheldon
Christopher Hitchens is on iTunesU. Which is pro-Brain rather than pro-god. So in that regard, yes, it's very god bashing.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/christopher-hitchens-audio/id386252369
Don't forget you need to put a person or two in there. I live in the midwest, so in this area we'd be dumping two starch-eating 250lb-ers in there. And maybe a raft of screaming kids (it is a breeder colony out here). Now that 21:1 weight ratio is a 34:1 assuming you don't have some 50lb "special snowflakes" in the back.
Sheldon
With AT&T and my 1st gen iPhone, all calls would go to voicemail if I was using a streaming data connection. I would have loved it if they didn't but the unreliability was very reliable.
3G fixed that in my case.
Sheldon
I use this feature all the time. I have a nice modidied Dension cradle in my car and I stream pandora and other media perpetually when I'm in the car. On Verizon, I'd never get a phone call when in the car.
When talking to friends, wife, etc, it's super nice to be talking about something on the phone and fire of a photo and email it to them while talking.
Being able to use google maps while on the phone is HUGE.
Being able to look something up on the web while talking about it is big.
I spent two years with an edge iPhone and let me tell you, the simultaneous voice and data was the best improvement in the 3G coverage. More so than speed even for my usage.
Sheldon
All the apps I've built for the Mac platform have been free:
http://quadesl.com/macApps.html
They are not amazing, but losing 95% of my revenue of zero dollars won't keep me up at night...
Sheldon
It seems really pretty dumb to stream media (except when on travel or sharing a few recent photos) from the smallest device you own in terms of storage space, and battery life. I want to be able to stream from my Mac (PC whatever) TO the iOS devices. I'm perfectly fine with limiting the formats so I have to transcode on the sender. That would make the appleTV a perfect media center thin client. It would also give me all sorts of music when mowing the grass for instance with my phone. I could watch a movie in bed that I just downloaded from the net without adding media that might be a one-time viewing into my iTunes library and syncing.
Apple already does this with the airport express and DAAP (and friends: DMAP, DPAP), this should not be a big leap to treat my iPhone as an airport express of sorts.
Sheldon
First the survey of DIY is very limited. It is a robots and computer hackery biased. There's a ton of very vibrant DIY sites out there, Take for example DIYAudio.com, that place has hundreds or thousands of posts per day. And there are industry giants contributing.
There's a ton of restoration sites like OWWM.com (Old Wood Working Machines, but also does metalworking machines). Along the lines of the CMU computer geekery is places like CNCZone.com. Then there's the more web1.0 sorts of places like the bicycle frambuilders list (http://www.phred.org/mailman/listinfo/framebuilders). DIY is very vibrant on the interwebs and there's a whole lot more of it going on than this survey takes into account.
Also Instructables is pretty weak. Instructables is to DIY as McDonalds is to fine dining.
Sheldon
This serial port has been around forever. All those cars with iPod integration use it for control and data. I've controlled the iPod functionality on every iPod I've had (since 3rd gen) as well as three iPhones using an Atmega controller. I year or so I shared some controller code for Arduino based atmega microconrollers.
Here's how you control your iPhone or iPod music with an Arduino, easy peasy:
Sheldon
* /* Control iPod/iPhones from Arduino
Sheldon Stokes
Jan 3, 2009
Standing on the shoulders of ipodLinux.org
http://ipodlinux.org/wiki/Apple_Accessory_Protocol
This send comands to the iPod as though it were a remote.
These are the simple 2 byte commands that should work on all
Apple iPods and iPhones starting with the 3rd Generation iPod
*********** Commands (array index, command value, command description) **************
0 0x00 Button Release
1 0x01 Play/Pause
2 0x02 Vol+
3 0x04 Vol-
4 0x08 Skip >
5 0x10 Skip
6 0x20 Next Album
7 0x40 Prev Album
8 0x80 Stop
*/
int commandBytes[]={0x00,0x01,0x02,0x04,0x08,0x10,0x20,0x40,0x80};
int checkSum;
int playPin = 2;
int stopPin = 3;
int fwdPin = 4;
int backPin = 5;
int playVal, stopVal, fwdVal, backVal;
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(19200);
pinMode(playPin, INPUT);
pinMode(stopPin, INPUT);
pinMode(fwdPin, INPUT);
pinMode(backPin, INPUT);
}
void loop()
{
playVal = digitalRead(playPin); // read play button // read stop button // read fwd button // read back button
stopVal = digitalRead(stopPin);
fwdVal = digitalRead(fwdPin);
backVal = digitalRead(backPin);
if (playVal == LOW) // send play command // send button release // send stop command // send button release // send stop command // send button release // send stop command // send button release
{
sendRequest(commandBytes[1]);
sendRequest(commandBytes[0]);
}
else if (stopVal == LOW)
{
sendRequest(commandBytes[8]);
sendRequest(commandBytes[0]);
}
else if (fwdVal == LOW)
{
sendRequest(commandBytes[4]);
sendRequest(commandBytes[0]);
}
else if (backVal == LOW)
{
sendRequest(commandBytes[5]);
sendRequest(commandBytes[0]);
}
delay(100);
}
void sendRequest(int val) {
checkSum = 0x100 - ((0x03 + 0x02 + val + 0) & 0xFF);
int request[] = {0xFF, 0x55, 0x03, 0x02, 0x00, val, checkSum};
> World domination follows . . .
Except on the desktop... :D
I'm all for using my products as I see fit, but there's a dark side to the PSBreak for me, and that's cheating on online games. I don't really care about the piracy or Sony's bottom line. But I do know back in the dark ages of online play when people got aimbots in Quake3, online play really started to suck, and I lost interest in the game really quickly. That undermining of the level playing field that makes online play fun is a bigger threat to Sony's bottom line than piracy or people doing protein folding when the console is idle.
Sheldon
I don't agree with that. The materials, fit and finish of the iPhone 4 is much better than my 1st gen or 3GS. If there is blame to be had, it's that the designers won over the engineers.
The older designs was easy to feel which was the fragile surface when it was in your pocket (and I kept the glass inward). With the new design, sure it looks good, but it's a whole lot harder to tell when the expensive side is facing outward.
Sheldon