cdawzrd

6 ms·

1.
by cdawzrd 2y ago
Congrats! Looks like a very clean app. Because it isn't clear from the launch page: can it play sounds? I'm wondering if it can "audition" chords so that I can get a double-check on whether I'm picking the right one
2.
KiCad 5 – A New Generation(kicad-pcb.org)
6 points by cdawzrd 8y ago|0 comments
3.
by cdawzrd 9y ago
I have used QML with good success in an embedded environment, although the embedded processor I was using did support OpenGL. If you want to use QML in even more constrained systems, it looks like there has been some work done on this [1],
4.
by cdawzrd 9y ago
The latest high-end PCB tools actually provide useful autorouting features, because they have figured out that if you combine human ability to solve the difficult pattern-recognition and planning problems, you can have a computer solve the
5.
by cdawzrd 10y ago
Having used both REAPER and Pro Tools professionally, my opinion is that REAPER is not basic at all -- it has every feature I have needed in a DAW, it's easy to use (for me, at least) and performs better than Pro Tools, at a far lower
6.
by cdawzrd 10y ago
RF Explorer is a "budget" option at around $300-400: http://rfexplorer.com/models/ Professional handheld spectrum analyzers are in the $3k-50k range from the likes of Keysight, Anritsu, etc.
7.
by cdawzrd 10y ago
Feature requests for Issues: priorities, and states other than open and closed. These are the biggest things keeping us from using GitLab issues rather than an external tool. We need to be able to set priorities (ideally customizable, but
8.
by cdawzrd 11y ago
No, LTSpice simulations are not real-time. However, there have been attempts to make that happen[1]! [1] http://www.livespice.org/
9.
by cdawzrd 11y ago
Probably the most affordable way to get some confidence is to connect two computers at either end of the cable and do a transfer speed test using iperf or something like that. If you are using random unmatched computers, do a "control
10.
by cdawzrd 12y ago
Well, not quite the same thing... the TP-Link product is 2.4GHz only, which is kind of a big deal these days. Support in DD-WRT and Tomato for 5GHz and 802.11ac protocols is somewhat shaky today (on some devices at least), but hopefully wi
11.
by cdawzrd 12y ago
Try running it under qemu[1] or bochs[2]. A "virtual machine" software such as VMWare or Virtualbox is not the same as a low-level "bare metal" CPU emulator such as the two I suggested. The latter programs make assumpt
12.
by cdawzrd 13y ago
Pedals are still the state of the art. Why would any performing musician want to use a smartphone instead of something designed to be controlled by feet, even if Android had something close to real time audio (it still doesn't)?
13.
by cdawzrd 13y ago
*512MB. This is not an Apple innovation... I believe all SSDs have caches hanging off of the controller, used for both write and read. Flash memory is very much slower than DRAM when writing. This DRAM cache is why many SSDs have better
14.
by cdawzrd 13y ago
Not really, depending on the engine. Some engines are built sturdily enough that they can make that power without anything other than bolt-on modifications. For example, the Saab B204L turbo engines make 185 HP stock. Just by changing th
15.
by cdawzrd 13y ago
Their parts presumably take about 22 weeks to manufacture and get to the end customer. They probably cannot afford to build the parts ahead of time and stock them, so they only kick off the factory once they receive the order. In the case o
16.
by cdawzrd 13y ago
Many hobby things with USB ports are using the default VID/PID from the chip vendor (generally FTDI's USB-to-Serial converter chips, or the on-chip USB controller of Atmel/Microchip/etc's microcontrollers). Using yo
17.
by cdawzrd 13y ago
Considering that an injection molding run takes ~$100k minimum to start up, it's not that surprising.
18.
by cdawzrd 13y ago
realistic Apple environments :-) (I realize there are one or two Android and Windows phones in the list, but still...)
19.
by cdawzrd 13y ago
With companies like OSH Park[1], the cost barrier to getting a bare board professionally manufactured is so low that you ought to just try it sometime. If you already sketch schematics, go through a basic Eagle tutorial or two, then try la
20.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
Yup. You can't take 6 Google Glasses and suction-cup them all over a car.
21.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
I don't like this trend. A modern self-hosted forum is badly needed. We've moved away from the time when any self-hosted web software had to be written in PHP now that many turnkey web hosts support Ruby and Python (and VPS hosting is che
22.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
I use Subsonic to solve that particular problem. Works well if you have enough upload bandwidth.
23.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
That's great for web developers, but what about those of us who are building desktop or embedded software?
24.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
I run PyCharm in 64-bit linux and have no font problems. Perhaps you should ask in the Jetbrains community forums, and include some more details / screenshots?
25.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
Bad firmware updates are (almost always) recoverable, just not always (easily) by the end user. What happens when you lose power is that you need to use the hardware-level debugging/testing functionality of whatever programmable device i
26.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
You don't need that kind of gear to build a board like this. You just need a good set of EDA tools and to read all the datasheets carefully. Stuff like trace impedance and the performance of high-speed lines should be done in simulation t
27.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
Actually, it should be trivial to defeat without MATLAB: 1. Take the recording of interest 2. Use any audio processing software to apply a 400Hz-4kHz bandpass filter. If you don't have audio processing software or a computer, you can play
28.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
Until there is a open-source program that replicates what Ableton Live offers (seamless and easy-to-use integration of audio recording and nonlinear editing with MIDI production), no one will consider using an open-source tool. The biggest
29.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
Something that most people who aren't in product engineering don't realize is that sourcing small displays is incredibly difficult if you are not building smartphones. All of the nice displays you see coming out and going straight into
30.
by cdawzrd 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System

More ›