Ooops, my bad. I was mistaken about the 1st gen Android wear watches. They also used Cortex-A processors and can be updated with AsteroidOS. I was thinking of other smart watches.
Great project. I had no idea the LG Urbane used an ARM Cortex-A processor. I have a few 1st gen Android watches, and those used the ST ARM cortex-M series micros. I have an LG Urbane as well, but wouldn't want to dump it since I find Android wear to be useful.
It's strange to me to see Hillary Clinton compared to Trump as equivalent in terms of honesty. I don't buy that. In fact, I would rate Trump and people like Elizabeth Holmes as being far more dishonest than your everyday politician or average person. I tend to think of them as being pathological liars, and I don't put Clinton or most other politicians in the same league as Trump. Maybe I shouldn't have used Trump as an example, even though I think he's the clearest example today, because of the incredibly divisive and polarizing elections we've experienced. Some people can't seem to see or think straight when it comes to Trump or Clinton.
I'm sure you can show me Clinton's lies, but I have to wonder if you can do the same with Trump. And I have to wonder if you even think Trump is more honest than Clinton.
That one lie, which she apologized for, doesn't compare to the constant lying that Trump engages in. And Trump almost never apologizes or admits that he lies. There is not much equivalence in my mind between the lying that Hillary Clinton or even most other politicians make when compared to Trump. That's how I see Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos. I'm just astounded by Holmes' and Trump's audacity to constantly spout such shameless and easily disproven lies. They are pathological liars. I can't say that about too many other people, and Hillary Clinton doesn't belong in the same class as Trump.
Looks like a really cool form factor with intriguing possibilities. Only problem with Intel is most of their chips require a lot of power. That's going to be a big problem if they're trying to play in the small embedded device space that depends heavily on battery power. One thing about Intel though, they've been throwing out lots of smaller devices hoping to get some traction somewhere. Hopefully they can bring down the power on their devices.
I love these linux on laptop articles. I've used linux since Redhat 5.0 and have almost always had to configure things to get everything to work. Nowadays, I don't really have the time to dick around, I used Gentoo for a long time, so I rely on Ubuntu to make it a simple plug and play install. Even with most of today's laptops, ubuntu seems to play well compared to the bad old days. I find I can throw Ubuntu on any laptop and get working as soon as I put in a few customizations and tweaks. Really, in my mind, linux has come a long way. But it's great to see how easy it is to get linux up and going on most laptops today.
Totally love the cardboard "case" held together with some rubber bands. LOL, this is real hacking. I spent a bit of time learning 3D printing and printed a few cool looking raspberry pi cases but always looking out for cool case ideas.
Trump lives among the 1% where they don't have to interact with computers to get around in society. He has aides and servants to conduct much of the routine paperwork and other things that ordinary people need to do to function with government and business. That includes email for communications. It doesn't surprise me that in his world, he uses phone calls and personal meetings to conduct most of his face to face business. It is definitely isolating and he lives very differently than most other people. Interestingly, I see the same situation with homeless or poor people who aren't as plugged in with everyone else.
Sure, but you'd want the driverless cars to at least follow the laws and rules of the road. I've been driving in SF ever since I got my driver's license, and as the city has gotten more and more traffic over the years, I think the traffic problems are as good as can be hoped for. There are just too many cars, pedestrians, buses, and bikes sharing the roads in the downtown area. Traffic enforcement is difficult when you can't get around easily and I think SF has done a pretty good job of keeping the traffic moving. One thing that they've done was to have traffic control officers in the downtown area to ensure that traffic moves along. This looks to be the best solution for the amount of traffic.
EUV has been talked about for so long, I heard about it when I was in college, in the 1990s, I'm just amazed that it's finally coming to fruition. But good to see that the technology has made great strides.
Intel has been leading the world in semiconductor process technology almost since the beginning. Because they've been the world's largest semiconductor company for a long time, they can afford to keep R&D spending as a major expenditure.
"Everyone who maintains designs with NXP parts... this is a good time to download and keep all the documentation"
That's kind of funny because I've had some bad experiences with NXP when it comes to documentation for some specific chips. Although, NXP does provide a lot of documentation related to technologies in general. That stuff is easily available.
Kind of a shame and passing of an era. This store was the greatest brick and mortar photography store that I've ever been in. Pretty much everything you wanted was available, everything from small format 35mm to large format was available. Now that digital photography has taken over, this was inevitable.
"this whole situation was nothing more than a hizzy fit by Massimo Banzi whose enormous ego won't allow him to see the forest for the trees"
I don't see it that way, especially when you consider how the whole trademark issue went down. And then refusing to pay royalties and strong arming Arduino suppliers. This was not a simple personal disagreement, but overtly hostile and aggressive business moves which hurt the community.
To your point, Hernando Barragán has legitimate grievances, but that was not the main problem that was resolved.
Arduino has made a huge impact on the "maker" community. It has enabled lots of non-electrical engineers to produce hardware that was previous not possible or easy for non-programmers. Most of the time, 8 bit micros are sufficient for the types of projects involved. Even embedded engineers use them when convenient.
And the ecosystem of Arduino "shields" has become so popular that lots of people and companies make shields. Even the newer environments such as ARM's mBed will accept arduino shields due to their availability.
For a long while, most people didn't understand the turmoil in the arduino market. The competing arduino.srl tried to fork the ide and even the history of the project.
This is huge news. Glad to see a sleazy offshoot reconciling with the open source community. They originally hijacked the name and tried to strong arm a lot of businesses, which seemed to hurt the arduino community.
Even though it was the biggest and most influential hobbyist electronics environment, there have been other mcu based environments popping up. Some were offshoots, such as TI's Energia, which added some innovative elements like an RTOS. Hopefully, the arduino environment moves forward even faster from now on.