malcolmputer

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by malcolmputer 10y ago
I think for me the main issue is the lack of a decent search. Take for example buying a power supply from Newegg.com or Amazon.com: I want a 750W PSU, made by Corsair, Seasonic, Antec, or NZXT with at least 4 Molex, at least 1 GPU power (8
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by malcolmputer 10y ago
Looks like the rpi3 may have onboard ethernet and wifi, but it's still just one ethernet (100Mbit to boot) and single band wifi. The point still stands that a $30 router blows away a rpi in terms of network connectivity (which should m
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by malcolmputer 10y ago
They are really completely different ecosystems, each with their own use cases, but off the top of my head: 1. Raspberry Pi boards (and rpi-similars) don't typically break out the ethernet interfaces, and require a USB>Ethernet. 2.
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by malcolmputer 10y ago
Location: Plano (DFW) Texas Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: PCB Design, Schematic work, Design for Manufacture, Hardware Design Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rvus7c3m7gt4y0n&#x2
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by malcolmputer 11y ago
> The other way to see progress on `dd` is to issue a signal 3 (USR1, iirc) to the dd process. kill -3 <dd pid> Be careful with this on some distributions and compilations of DD. Purely anecdotal evidence, but in college I had a f
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by malcolmputer 11y ago
Yeah, I am still working on that. You will notice my HN profile is less than a day old.
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by malcolmputer 11y ago
If you want to go that route, have a contractor review at various stages. It shouldn't take more than an hour or two, and most contractors will do it with the hope that if you make it big you will remember them and their services.
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by malcolmputer 11y ago
1. Contextual Electronics does have a really good course on kicad. 2. Kicad is a very good PCB software package. Word of warning though, kicad is currently in a state of "flux" with the latest stable from 2013, and the bleeding ed
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by malcolmputer 11y ago
I can recommend Practical Electronics for Inventors. It is very helpful in getting practical prototypes designed pretty quick. I sometimes still refer to it when I need something simple I haven't designed in a while.
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by malcolmputer 11y ago
Honest advice? Hire someone to do it. There are so many things that you won't know about how to make things manufacture-able it would be worth your time and money to just pay a contractor/employee to optimize things for you. (sh