> > What happens e.g. if I want to add a totally new fancy roadrunner detector
> > by ACME from which nobody else ever heard or my own sensor I invented
> > myself?
>
> You add a "roadrunner" node to OWFS. ;-)
>
> Seriously, I do plan to add some generic/tutorial-ish code which one can
> adapt to personal needs (and which might conceivably work without
> modifying the OWFS daemon), but right now my priority is to get the use
> cases I actually need it for up&running first.
:)) Perfect, that sounds great! Important to me is it must work without
modifying the OWFS daemon, that makes it easy to use for everybody.
Thanks a lot!
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> >> Sure. I think it's not possible to half-solder a chip without using an
> >> oven. I've tried half-a-dozen companies which labelled themselves as
> >> "professional" but they don't even get to place chips on prototypes all
> >> in the right direction. What do you learn about that: You need to do all
> >
> > Ok, but I would call such a company pseudo professional at most. That's
> > a pitty.
> >
> How do I tell apart professionals from pseudo-professionals without
> trying out first what they can do? By checking if they own a whip to
> teach their employees to work flawlessly? I think the big problem is,
> prototyping is tedious work done by hand, and there are many companies
> in the market who outsource this. And only this. So even if you check
> their equipment, it's likely they don't use it to do your prototypes.
Then if you walk down this road further you end up choosing a local company
such that you can go and have a look a the first batches before the finalize
them. And then the next step is to have a good buddy of you start such a
company and place your orders there... ;)
May I ask - out of curiosity - where those companies you talk of are located?
Asia? Europe? US?
To be honest I did placements always myself as I am a Laboratory Guy/Physicist.
The last time we ordered assembled boards was from a company run by a
good friend of our Technician. As PCB design is still bit more complex as Lego
this might be the way one has to go.
I'm always a bit puzzled by such facts. I myself am in this business for about
20 years now. One/I would guess that should have been some progress made
in this field... ;)) (aahh - yes I know; one can load the PCB design files onto
a RFID chip included into the PCB now - what a nice toy... ;))
> > Ok, I'm fine with this if you are!
> >
> It has already been ordered from Mouser. Will arrive next week. Have to
> see when I can start.
Very cool! Thanks a lot!
> By the way: Pascal Baerten has told me he updated his brain4home.eu
> page. Have you asked him for a sample of his chip? I say that because in
> contrary to the DS28E17, the BAE0911 has more intelligence built-in, so
> it can interface to a connected I?C chip right now from a user program
> put into it, and return the result through one of its general purpose
> data properties in OWFS. And it's working right now.
I wrote him a mail and as he put up the page again, I had a look at his pricing.
I am interested in the BAE in 2 ways;
1. they are cool and useful AND supported by owfs, so I need some eval boards
2. I am interested in having/getting/creating and releasing a generic 1wire
slave
library - best for Arduino/AVR (if possible) or else - and the BAE are a
nice example
I asked him for 2. (I can understand if he does not agree - but let's see). As
for
point 1. the main reason why I did not order yet is - his conditions are 10
chips
min. and I would have to solder the eval boards myself. As I don't see me having
the time and needing the chips in near future I am a bit hesitant to order
right now.
He told me I can order 5+5 chips which is a good thing - it does not need to be
10 of each kind but in total.
If somebody else wants/needs small amounts of BAE0910 or BAE0911 chips
and we order together that would be perfect. So please let me know it you want
some.
Otherwise I think I'll step back until I have a real need for them. What is a
pity
since they look very nice and interesting to me!
Thanks and Greetings
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