On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 09:51:31AM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > Claims to be open source. > > http://www.cerevellum.com/
It uses "open source development tools". You can write closed source apps with GCC, and open source apps with visual C++ . I'm glad they like our tools, but it is their own code that counts. If it IS open source, and has a USB port, I can imagine Russell building a wifi stumbler with it. Notice how the time does not update on their "demo"? A true demo would be difficult - I don't expect that - but they could have been less careless faking it. Meanwhile, there are few specifications, which is not surprising, because this is unlikely to work very well. The human eye is a very good camera, compared to most things electronic and inexpensive. The eye also has no latency, and a video system will have field rate latency, at least. Very small delays are disorienting. Not what you want for real-time control, in a wide range of illumination conditions. The LCD display will be a power hog. It looks like a iPhone turned sideways, and probably has the same battery life as an iPhone playing continuous videos. So it may need frequent recharging. "Up to 9 hours" is weasel words that includes much smaller hours, especially as the battery gets old. Still, it would be fun to play with one. I will let somebody else spend the $350 and try theirs - until theirs is stolen. I spent much less than that for my bike, decades ago. Thanks for sharing it, though. It reminds me that I need to shop for a new helmet mirror. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
