Speaking of face to face, the current Moderna and Pfizer vaccines seem to have caught up with the most common strains. They can turn these out FAST and the delay is safety tests, regulatory process, cost, etc. I'll be at max immunity pretty soon and have to say I'm pretty comfortable without a mask now.
Also, while we wait for a volunteer to connect with Seth Hollar at 'State about resuming meetings there we could perhaps meet at the NW Abbey Road in Cary. Pete Sep 27, 2022 2:47:54 PM John Wettroth via TriEmbed <[email protected]>: > I may be late to the party but there is gadget that a friend just turned me on > to called the Flipper (like the dolphin- the logo). Imagine a nicely packaged > bus pirate with a small LCD display, SD card slot, rechargeable battery (USB > C) > and a bunch of LF 125 Khz, NFC (13.56 Mhz), BT LE and Sub 1 Ghz ISM > transceivers- key fobs, etc. It does all the standard I2C, SPI, One Wire , > UART > stuff, Infrared remotes and other stuff. It can provide 5 or 3.3v at moderate > currents- a dozen or so hardware I/O's are 3.3v with 5v tolerance. It uses > a > Dual Core ARM CPU- 64 bit and an M0 for UI stuff (I think). You can load > custom > firmware from micro SD card- there is an SDK that I haven't studied yet. It > has > a lot of cool apps already like a spectrum analyzer that goes from 300 to 900 > Mhz for ISM band key fobs, etc. It can work standalone, or with a nice PC > app > or a phone app which is limited so far. Its pretty cool and right up this > group's alley. Guys are calling them the nerd's Tamagotchi. Its $169 direct > from the manufacturer's site. There are also a bunch of Ebay sellers scalping > them for over $300- they were in short supply for a while- go direct to the > company. Google "Flipper Zero". There are some Youtube demos as well. I > just > ordered a couple and will bring them to a face to face meeting eventually. > > > > Regards, > John M. Wettroth > E: [email protected] > M: (919) 349-9875 > H: (984) 329-5420 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > Searchable email archive available at > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe Searchable email archive available at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
