Re: [HH] Arduino board programmed with an audio file

2012-01-05 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 01/05/2012 06:36 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: OMG, seriously? Are we going back to cassette audio storage of data and programs? Is an Arduino just a TRS-80? http://asciiexpress.net/gameserver/ -- http://slug.aeminium.org/ ___ Hardwarehacking

Re: [HH] New products at adafruit

2012-04-02 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 04/01/2012 10:24 PM, Tom Metro wrote: I didn't now there were challenges in getting Bluetooth working on embedded systems. Let me guess...the standard is proprietary and licensed? There's a nice bluetooth transceiver module that provides RS232 TTL RX/TX, easy to interface to embedded

[HH] $25 eZ430-Chronos watch

2012-04-03 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
Hi, in case you are interested, and like to look geeky with a fancy 1GHz processor programmable watch, TI Chronos Watch is on sale http://tideals.com/ http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos Cheers, Nuno --

Re: [HH] $25 eZ430-Chronos watch

2012-04-03 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 04/03/2012 05:01 PM, Federico Lucifredi wrote: The processor does not run at 1 GHz, this is an ultra-low-power MCU, it would be hard pressed to maintain that title if it did. Oh yes, with the excitement I didn't see how silly that is, specially with the small cell battery for power! By

Re: [HH] Federico's talk, part 2

2012-06-21 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 06/21/2012 05:16 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote: FYI, Newark (US arm of Farnell/element14) has an RPi page: http://www.newark.com/jsp/displayProduct.jsp?sku=83T1943CMP=KNC-G-SUPP-RASPBERRYPImckv=sZwE3zPRh|pcrid|10193933301|plid| (They're actually paying for a Google Ad that links there.) but

Re: [HH] Rethinking LinuxPC Robot -- the Linux PI Robot

2013-04-08 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/07/2013 04:29 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: Use something like MPI for distributed processing across multiple PI devices MPI is probably a poor choice for this case ( I used it in the past for massively parallel computations ) , you should

Re: [HH] BeagleBone Black Has Arrived

2013-05-06 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/2013 09:46 PM, Tom Metro wrote: How are these micros wired to the main CPU? Via some serial interface, like I2C? What connectivity do they have to the outside world? Are they driving the GPIO pins on the board? How do you load code into

Re: [HH] $40 Android tablet

2013-11-12 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/2013 02:16 PM, Tom Metro wrote: $39.99 Azpen Innovation A700 7 Tablet http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.aspx?sku=853853 That's very nice, considering it's a A8 ARM, would be perfect for a small mobile robot. Any info on

Re: [HH] Google acquires Boston Dynamics; Zoomer robotic dog

2013-12-17 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2013 06:20 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Under a $10.8 million contract, Boston Dynamics is currently supplying Darpa with a set of humanoid robots named Atlas to participate in the Darpa Robotics Challenge, a two-year contest with a $2 million

Re: [HH] X-ray machines mobile electronics

2014-02-25 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 02/25/2014 04:29 PM, Tom Metro wrote: The next thing I'd try is to reflash the ROM, if that's possible with a bricked device. For the HP touchpad, it's possible to reflash when the big battery symbol appears, so Bill might want to try that. I'm running android 4.4 on mine.

Re: [HH] home automation connected thermostat

2014-12-04 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 12/03/2014 11:27 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Any people on the list with experience with thermostats that interface with home automation gear? This market was moving along slowly until Nest showed up, and then it seemed to take off in a big way. I haven't looked at the choices closely in a few

Re: [HH] Radio Shack 25% off at most malls

2015-01-19 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 01/11/2015 09:01 PM, David Kramer wrote: The ethernet shield came out to like $17.24 ($45 elsewhere). The 4 relay board was $11.24. Interesting, I was aware of RadioShack impending doom, but didn't connect the dots. I'll check out the closest store, thank you! :) By the way, if you can

Re: [HH] stubbing out boost::format?

2015-04-02 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 04/01/2015 10:44 PM, Greg London wrote: The plan was to compile the code to run on bare metal. No OS. It would run on the arm cortex a9 processor that is a hard core (not in fpga fabric) on the Zynq chip. Greg Hi Greg, I'll try that on a zedboard and see if I run into the same issue.

Re: [HH] Computer-controlled RF switches?

2015-09-28 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 09/28/2015 08:22 AM, Brough Turner wrote: > I'm looking for a cheap and/or quick way to switch between several > different antennas in a Wi-Fi setup. Mini-Circuits has a vast array of RF 'blocks', including RF switches: http://www.minicircuits.com/products/Switches.shtml regards, Nuno --