ladyada

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by ladyada 4mo ago
hi everyone, its me 'ladyada. we're very much looking forward to telling our story, i have reached out to the founder of flux.ai (Matthias Wagner - Founder & CEO at Flux), in hopes we can resolve this together and set a good e
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by ladyada 10y ago
You may be able to use one of these http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/bud-industries/USB-... it looks rather cute! see: https://blog.adafruit.com/2011/03/04/part-finder-f
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by ladyada 12y ago
http://imgur.com/a/Z1hyd has a few parts labeled theres a main processor which is way overpowered (the big TQFP part) which is covered by a plug-in 2G GSM/GPRS modem. You can 'sniff' the modem control pi
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by ladyada 12y ago
still finishing the final board layout (it's not out yet!) https://plus.google.com/112526208786662512291/posts/2qmVHpkn... :)
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by ladyada 13y ago
eInk is very slow refresh, about a second...not fun for a laptop. Pixel Qi displays work better: have TFT-speed refresh with sun-light readability. Indoors its a color display. Outdoors you can turn off the backlight to conserve power. If y
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by ladyada 14y ago
liked this? want more? you might want to also read my kinect reverse-engineering how-to article at http://learn.adafruit.com/hacking-the-kinect
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by ladyada 14y ago
I assure you that just because two adapters look the same do not have any relation to the insides. (After all, counterfeit Apple adapters look the same as genuine ones, but you wouldn't think they are the same on the inside after reading th
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by ladyada 14y ago
Hi Rhizome, adafruit does not distribute the specific USB charger we carry at Frys - sorry to hear you had a bad experience with them but it was certainly not the same one from the adafruit shop the parent poster was referring to!
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by ladyada 14y ago
Good question! I test all the products in the adafruit shop for quality and functionality :) I tried out half a dozen 5v/1a adapters and this one was the winner - best performance and a very good price for UL listed. The most important poin
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by ladyada 14y ago
for what my word is worth, please let me put in a vote for LiFe - i know they're not as energy dense but you may not need as much armoring on the pack. you can say its good for 2ce as many charges and uses a safer battery - which can increa
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by ladyada 14y ago
Hi! Did you choose to go with LiFe or LiCo's?
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by ladyada 15y ago
ah, you are conflating two things. the hacker scene is full of assholes, but they are not the batshit crazy people. so all the fucked up people you're thinking of? no, i'm saying there are other people, and they are /much much/ worse becaus
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by ladyada 15y ago
""I have friends who happen to be both notoriously successful in the tech field and female. They are all extremely touchy about this subject. They are touchy because crazy shit like this happens to them all the time."" This is very true. u
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by ladyada 15y ago
2) the open kinect libraries do not in any way modify the kinect hardware, firmware or otherwise. there is no 'jailbreaking' involved here. its a -usb driver-!
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by ladyada 15y ago
good god, i wrote this nearly -five- years ago please do not take it seriously at this point, its completely outdated
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by ladyada 15y ago
hiring processes depend a lot on luck, way more than maybe we'd like to think, mostly based on who you know and whether the person across the table 'likes' you or not, and what positions are available. but she succeeded in the real world in
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by ladyada 15y ago
see also: pachube.com
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by ladyada 16y ago
then you will be thrilled to learn that the "spoon fed development environment" is C/C++ with avr-glibc!
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by ladyada 16y ago
1. the BS was also revolutionary, and obviously the arduino references it, but the BS did not evolve in the last 10 years. 2. you could say the same thing about computers, crystal radios and solar panels, this is a really weak argument. we
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by ladyada 16y ago
why are you disagreeing when the middle of the article is all about the great community. its easy to say 'community!' the point of the article is that community isnt something that just -happens- magically because you have a forum, there ar
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by ladyada 16y ago
things don't have to last 20 years to be revolutionary. arduino has set the bar very high. basic stamp was good for a few years but it was closed, weak, proprietary and expensive. people should be happy/impressed/annoyed that in this case,
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by ladyada 16y ago
i seriously doubt BDmicro was even seen by Arduino its Yet Another Dev Board. and avrfreaks is (if you read the article) the anti-hero. you missed the most important one which is Processing. by winning, 'this guy' means that it has become a
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by ladyada 16y ago
capacitive touch screens are not available on the hobby market also, most people just think capacitive touch screens are better because apple told them. they are not significantly more precise, dont have Z-axis readings & multitouch is
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by ladyada 16y ago
Meanwhile, the electrical engineers have been waiting for Art of Electronics v3 for a decade... "its coming out real soon, its being edited right now!"
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by ladyada 16y ago
the driver is 'user land' libusb
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by ladyada 16y ago
In some alternate HN that existed 10 years ago someone posted "4 letters: LTCM" :)
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by ladyada 16y ago
there is an authentication scheme in the xbox/kinect. the authentication scheme is only required for the xbox to authenticate the camera, not the other way around (the camera only being usable with an xbox) this is almost certainly not beca
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by ladyada 16y ago
a hardware usb analyzer is just one of those things that's terribly expensive, not really even because of the hardware (its not that complicated) but because of the software which must be really good and this one runs on all OS's. I will
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by ladyada 16y ago
you're welcome! we write a new tutorial every tuesday - some beginner, some advanced. if you subscribe to the blog rss feed you can get the notifications
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by ladyada 16y ago
lvr.com also has incredibly useful information. support jan axelson and buy one of her books, they're essential for any usb development!

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