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http://dailydiy.com/2006/08/21/ Parallax Propeller (review) EiED online’s Bill Wong reviews the propellor multicore processor from Parallax (best known for their BASIC stamp) – “Parallax took a major turn from its bread and butter Basic Stamps and SX processors with its new Propeller architecture. The Propeller packs eight 32-bit processors, called cogs, into a single package… Packing eight identical processors in the same package with shared memory may seem like a straight forward architecture but the Propeller is a bit more complicated and novel. For example, all eight cogs have access to all of the same 32 IO pins at the same time. This can make debugging a bit difficult if two processors accidentally use the same pin at the same time in a different fashion. This simply means designers need to have a good understanding of the application and its implementation.” [via] – Link. Related: First look at Parallax’s Propeller chip – Link. Parallax – Link. Propeller – Link. [Read this article] [Comment on this article] 2006/08/21 | DIY Projects - General | Trackback | 6 Comments » This is not your grandfather’s HAM radio… Here’s a special MAKEZine.com article “This is not your grandfather’s HAM radio” – by Thomas Arey N2EI. Many folks who read Make probably have an image of their grandfather, father, or kindly older neighbor heading down into their basement to talk to people around the world by way of amateur radio. This classic image of voice (and Morse code) communication is still played out every day in thousands of locations. HF radio communication has long been the mainstay of amateur radio. In the world of modern electronics communication and experimentation, ham radio has gone well beyond the scope of the basic radio communication that might have been the hobby of your grandfather. Also, amateur radio is the only radio service remaining where participants are encouraged to build, modify and improve their equipment in pursuit of the radio art. This seems to fall right in line with the philosophy of Make. [Read this article] [Comment on this article] 2006/08/21 | DIY Projects - General | Trackback | No Comments » Flexible OLED Video Demo Reminds Us Of the 80s, Only More Flexible Don’t let the old school synth-style music fool you, this FOLED display is cutting edge. FOLED, which stands for Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes, can be placed on other flexible material like plastic or metallic foil. It offers an improvement over regular LCDs that need to be built on glass substrate. – Jason Chen FOLED – Flexible OLED Display [TechEBlog] The Ethernut project site has source/shcematics for building your own OSS hardware /software embedded ethernet devices – “Ethernut is an Open Source Hardware and Software Project for building tiny Embedded Ethernet Devices… Three Open Source Reference Designs are currently available… The software is an Open Source implementation of a Real Time Operating System called Nut/OS and a TCP/IP protocol suite named Nut/Net. Several application examples are provided, including an embedded Webserver, a simple RS232 to TCP/IP gateway and an Internet Radio playing MP3 streams.” [via] – Link. Related:   -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/linuxkernelnewbies/subscribe?hl=en