Love that. Thanks.Speaking of O'Reilly...
I keep threatening myself with building a machine dedicated to running INX. It would keep my brain working.
Do you know embedded systems well? If you do, may I contact you next year with a firearms-related project I'm working on? I will soon reach the stage where I need a formal meeting with an embedded systems expert who has some basic knowledge of shooting.I love hardware tinkering, and love embedded systems.
I just realized that the people who understand the last page of posts must all be old enough to leave me depressed for the rest of the day.
That's the perfect thing for a Raspberry Pi. Little investment in hardware and you can tinker as much as you like. I bet you'd find some really cool things to do with one.
Maybe not. I mean, it might be worth the effort. Everybody knows that somebody (or a few people) are going to make a giant pile of money off that technology when they get it working well enough and put it in a simple enough package so that it will take off and kill Twitter and a few other social media giants.Also would be nice to have the energy to gain a better understanding of blockchain technology and its applications along the way, and then do something with it, but those days are likely best left to others.
Well enough to make things work, but I'm certainly not an expert on any one platform. I've done work on a good number of microcontrollers (Atmel, PIC, Intel), but in recent years I use more full-featured modern integrated APUs. Lower part count, better power budgets, more features, lots of free libraries, etc. It's a lot easier now than it used to be.Do you know embedded systems well? If you do, may I contact you next year with a firearms-related project I'm working on? I will soon reach the stage where I need a formal meeting with an embedded systems expert who has some basic knowledge of shooting.
I'd be lost. I never got nerdy about hardware....where they get REALLY nerdy about hardware...
Understood. I've just had trouble with finding anyone with any decent comprehension of both embedded systems and shooting....I'm certainly not an expert...
Depending on what it is, I might be able to help. If it's more complex, one of my good friends is a firmware engineer, started at NASA and has since moved into commercial power management/monitoring.Understood. I've just had trouble with finding anyone with any decent comprehension of both embedded systems and shooting.
It's a lot easier now than it used to be.
Understood. I've just had trouble with finding anyone with any decent comprehension of both embedded systems and shooting.
I appreciate that....I might be able to help. ...
I beg to differ. OSx is based on and has underlying BSD. You can generally install all the Open Source tools that makes automating things delightfully easy. Now days, Unbuntu does offer a drop-on shell for Windoze... almost makes working with that crappiest of crappy OS's survivable.... Spent 4 hrs in an Apple store, nice people who work with a 'locked' OS but can't really do much.
I blame the fanatically religious following of Agile (virtually zero actual design process) software methodology, and massively bloated "frameworks" that add 100's of megabytes of code so some lazy ass developer can accomplish a task with 1 line of code instead of 2-3. :/Back in the day we called that "Babbage's Disease".
The constant adding of "features" to software (or hardware for that matter, for which Charles Babbage was famously guilty), just because you could.