nemik

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by nemik 3y ago
While OpenWRT is really good and often the best one for really constrained Linux HW, adding features like secure-boot and secure storage to the builds can be much more difficult than on Yocto. Especially when vendors like NXP provide that f
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by nemik 9y ago
For more training data, I wonder if you could make Lego parts in Sketchup or some 3D program, then render them in a 'scene' similar to your camera setup using a renderer like Maxwell or V-Ray or whatever. Then you could maybe be a
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by nemik 9y ago
Thanks for writing this up and adding all these detailed notes! Super awesome work on this, it's very cool. The air puffs seem like the most unreliable parts at the moment? Maybe if you could have some manual labour, one thing to do wo
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by nemik 9y ago
His way is a lot safer. It's never a "$1" chip, you also need a power supply for that chip, breadboard (or dev kit) which puts price into cheapo webcam range. On top of that, breaking out to LCD pins or their drivers is not e
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by nemik 9y ago
Personally, rather than thinner/lighter I'd pay for it to be a bit bigger but capable of letting me open it up and replace RAM and the SSD as was possible up to the 2013 ones.
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by nemik 10y ago
:( I think you just called yourself stupid.
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by nemik 10y ago
Check out DirtyPCBs too. Based in Shenzhen but offers next-day DHL. Usually a 4 to 6 day turn-around time for me; great prices and good quality too. If you're in a bigger city, also check out some smaller shops near you. There are a fe
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by nemik 10y ago
https://www.amazon.com/ALITOVE-WS2812B-Individually-Addressa... are perfectly cromulent LEDs and less expensive than Neopixels. Not as cheap as the RGB strips, but if you pick off more points for colour analysis, you could
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by nemik 10y ago
What keeps it from crushing you while you sleep?
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by nemik 10y ago
Vim for everything (C, Python, JS/HTML/CSS, etc etc) except Android development, I use Android Studio for that.
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by nemik 10y ago
This here is right on. I will add that if you can afford the time and effort to do so, it would be good to design your system in the beginning to work on multiple providers without many issues. That means trying as hard as you can to use as
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by nemik 10y ago
As the hiring party, how would you feel about a hypothetical deadline from the hiree on how long you have to evaluate them and present an offer? Would limiting your time for that evaluation be unreasonable too?
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by nemik 11y ago
This is very cool, thank you for making it! I just have one concern: Does the AGPLv3 license mean I need to open-source whatever other service I make that might be making use of this?
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by nemik 11y ago
It's what fuses and diodes are used for. You know how when you write a program you never trust user-input? This should be the same thing, but physically. A well-designed USB port wouldn't fry the computer like it did.
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by nemik 11y ago
I also advocate for Java, but mostly because I invested in companies that manufacture RAM.
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by nemik 11y ago
No big deal, you can make it work. axTLS is a pretty lightweight TLS implementation that you could strap to your TCP framework and make it work fine. It's also BSD-licensed so you can put it in proprietary stuff.
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by nemik 11y ago
You can program the ESP8266 yourself. For its TCP stack it uses lwip which you can also compile yourself. The 802.11 stack is more of a black box though, but not necessarily the TCP stack.
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by nemik 11y ago
Hmm, look's like Vishay's VCNL3020 in there? Or the good ol' Sharp GP2Y0A21YK0F. Left wondering why you need a base controller and the dual-PIR's though, especially if the PIR's are connected to DC voltage anyway an
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by nemik 11y ago
So what do you think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Agreement_on_German_Ext... ? Perhaps everyone in Germany would be better off still re-paying that 50% that was just removed.
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by nemik 11y ago
Hmmm I was under the impression that cash was part of their operating expenses. They have retail stores, their campus, most of their employees and all their most expensive employees are all in the US too. But you're right, it's pr
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by nemik 11y ago
From http://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2015/6/13/apples-cash-dilem... it seems like Apple may not actually have the cash to do this, not in the USA at least and it would need to pay taxes on the cash it i
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by nemik 11y ago
I'm unsure of how to reconcile the conflicting things Cook says, then does: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-china-security-checks-o... China will ask for keys and Apple will give them up. I guess because China&#x2
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by nemik 11y ago
I find this policy incredibly sexist and am very surprised it came from a woman. If the cause of this was women's supposed inferiority at negotiating, does Reddit prevent women from having sales roles where good negotiation on behalf o
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by nemik 11y ago
Agreed, but touchscreens and SD or USB means connectors, which are often a significant part of BOM cost and take up space. If you can do it all from the one-chip/module you have in there it's a big benefit when it comes to making
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by nemik 11y ago
The CC3XXX "SmartConfig" was complete garbage the last time I was evaluating it on a CC3200. It didn't work on 802.11n networks, only b/g. And that was when it worked. I got it only once trying on both an iPhone and Nexu
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by nemik 11y ago
Just because it's 32-bit doesn't mean its code can't store 64-bit ints. There's just a few more instructions that are needed to manipulate it. But it's not a big deal. That's how computers are able to store, re
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by nemik 12y ago
"There's a widespread belief that an Android device without Google services (really, this means Maps and the app store) is unsaleable outside China (I'm not entirely sure about this, as I wrote here)" Like you said in th
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by nemik 12y ago
Very cool! But ATMega's can be pretty pricey as well as connectors like USB. Bluetooth LE would be a pretty good alternative especially since it's wireless. Check out platforms like the mbed ( http://developer.mbed.org&#
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by nemik 12y ago
I'd recommend starting out with Eagle, just use their free version in the beginning, it's more than enough. The best tutorial that helped me most when I was in your same spot is: http://aaroneiche.com/2010/06
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by nemik 12y ago
The choice of GPLv3 for a license doesn't make much sense to me. The bottom of http://we-io.net/whyWeio.html seems to allude to embedding it into end-user devices in production. With GPLv3, wouldn't all your custo

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