Re: [TriEmbed] PCBWay question and review request

2021-11-01 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
jlcpcb.com/ They are very inexpensive and extremely fast, about two week from Hong Kong. Pay more and get it faster. ~Carl On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 11:12 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: What do they mean by "existing fiducials" "none" &

Re: [TriEmbed] PCBWay question and review request

2021-11-01 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
 and extremely fast, about two week from Hong Kong. Pay more and get it faster. ~Carl On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 11:12 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: What do they mean by "existing fiducials" "none" "half lasered" "lasered through"? Is this about

[TriEmbed] PCBWay question and review request

2021-11-01 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
What do they mean by "existing fiducials" "none" "half lasered" "lasered through"? Is this about fiducials they would place on the board or them somehow detecting my fiducials? The last time I used PCBWay was four years ago. Their stated turnaround seems much faster now. Anybody have good

Re: [TriEmbed] Fwd: New Raspberry Pi Zero 2!

2021-10-29 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
No. "Available for back order". "More stock available to supplier lead times which is approximately 2/21/22". Newark is a no go for RPI4-MODBP-4GB On 10/29/21 12:24, Carl Nobile via TriEmbed wrote: If you want one quickly and cheap try Newark:

[TriEmbed] Raspberry Pi raw boards very hard to find Re: Fwd: New Raspberry Pi Zero 2!

2021-10-29 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Thanks to Scott for the expanded list. Got a 4GB model 4 on the way from Pishop for $55 plus shipping. Beat the Ebay price by about $100. But the situation is getting dire, IMO. I'm fretting that there is panic buying going on at a very large scale in addition to logistical/fab priority

Re: [TriEmbed] Fwd: New Raspberry Pi Zero 2!

2021-10-28 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Speaking of, where can I buy an RPI 4 other than Ebay? I chased down every source branching from raspberrypi.org and nobody has stock. -Pete On 10/28/21 16:27, Ed Blackman via TriEmbed wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 03:11:15AM -0400, Scott Hall via TriEmbed wrote: From Elektor Magazine's

[TriEmbed] 3G phase out starting?

2021-10-25 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I was talking with a guy at AT and he claimed the FCC has set a target for starting to phase out 3G at the end of the year. Hopefully this doesn't mean cell modem support will go away soon, just phone stuff starting to go away. Apparently AT gave folks with 3G phones new ones for nothing to

[TriEmbed] web site Wordpress broken: browse email archive in the meantime

2021-10-23 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
If you visit the web site these days there is just a clue that it's broken. If you click on "email list" there is a big bread crumb at the top: the link to the email archive. This is the only metadata for the time being. I'll try to get my ISP engaged to repair the site.

[TriEmbed] anybody in SW Wake have small solderless breadboards?

2021-10-21 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Looking for the standard size, only requirement is that it not be unusually difficult to get headers into and out of the breadboard. I'll buy up to 10 but need at least four. Thanks, Pete___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post

[TriEmbed] looking for a key value store suitable for Particle

2021-10-15 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Gals and Guys,   I'm trying to find a relatively small, simple (get, put, delete) key value store. Something like Kyoto Cabinet or LevelDB, but way smaller and simpler. Kyoto Cabinet is 40k lines of C++. I need something closer to 4k or fewer lines. This is for a few kilobytes of keys and

[TriEmbed] format and content for November meeting needed (this is for you)

2021-10-15 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Folks,    In the past three months we had an excellent overview of RF theory by Kevin McClanning, my short walk through mutual exclusion techniques with interrupt and non-interrupt code and gdb ramble related to using a Particle board, and Nick Edgington's introduction to and demo of

Re: [TriEmbed] Meeting Tonight?

2021-10-11 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
https://meet.jit.si/TriEmbed I'm snarled up but will be connected shortly. On 10/11/21 19:04, Kevin McClaning via TriEmbed wrote: All -- Is there a meeting tonight? Anyone got a link? Thanks. Kevin ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list

[TriEmbed] October meeting Monday 10/11 at 7pm

2021-10-07 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
We will have our normal monthly TriEmbed meeting on Monday 10/11 at 7:00 pm Agenda: - Welcome - Announcements - PCB Carolina free trade show with technical presentations November 10th @ McKimmon Ctr - Presentation by Nick Edgington - What is an FPGA

Re: [TriEmbed] Designing a brushless motor controller during the chip shortage

2021-10-05 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I once got the idea I could control a brushless motor by being "clever" controlling set of drivers. I was mistaken. Without some means of sensing the behavior of the motor, whether it be back EMF or some other feedback it's about 99% of hopeless. Which is to say I was too stubborn to give up

Re: [TriEmbed] Free IoT conference Tuesday-Wednesday this week

2021-09-14 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
In the "whole schedule PDF" available last night times were listed for CST. Glad it's been corrected. Thanks, Pete On 9/14/21 10:14 AM, Rodney Radford wrote: When I looked at the time for each session, two times were given - the CDT time, and the local time (which is an hour later). So yes, it

[TriEmbed] slides for tonight's presentation

2021-09-13 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Here are the slides for the 7pm talk: https://apexprotofactory.com/talks/TriEmbed-20210913-Adventures.pdf   The talk will be via Jitsi here: https://meet.jit.si/TriEmbed -Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing

Re: [TriEmbed] Sparkfun toaster oven reflow controller

2021-09-09 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
+1 for Controleo On 9/9/21 1:28 PM, John Wettroth via TriEmbed wrote: Rodney, I built up a Toaster Oven reflow a few years ago using Wizoo Controleo 3 that I saw at a Maker Faire Bay Area in 2017 or so.The developers were cool and its open source IIRC.It was more expensive but was a very

[TriEmbed] September meeting on Monday 9/13 at 7pm

2021-09-07 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
We will have our normal monthly TriEmbed meeting on Monday 9/13 at 7:00 pm Agenda: - Welcome - Announcements - Presentation by Pete Soper - Adventures with Particle Argon, DeviceOS, C++, gdb and a non-trivial driver for the FXOS8700CQ accelerometer/magnetometer chip - Show and tell  

[TriEmbed] functional hyperlink Re: Visual Studio Code now available as Web based editor for GitHub repos

2021-09-03 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/developing-in-codespaces/web-based-editor (apologies for my $1k phone with next to most recent version of Android. It can't chew gum either.) On 9/3/21 8:02 AM, Peter Soper

Re: [TriEmbed] Fwd: Mini Maker Faire Planning/Brainstorming

2021-08-16 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I forwarded your message to Blake McNeill -Pete On 8/16/21 10:12 AM, Mark Kruse wrote: I ran a maker event back in Iowa for a few years with great success. I'm busy that night, but I would be really interested to hear what you have in mind and if there is anything I can do to help. - Mark

[TriEmbed] coming presentations

2021-08-15 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Folks,    In September I'll be sharing about using the dbx debugger alongside the Particle Workbench and technical details about an interrupt-driven six axis (accelerometer/magnetometer) sensor driver. Charles Lord will provide a teaser about a radar sensor and give an in depth talk on that

Re: [TriEmbed] talk for September"

2021-08-09 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
On 8/9/21 4:23 PM, Charles J. Lord, PE wrote: Sounds great! Will this be virtual? Would there be time for a short 'intro to the A111 radar chip' spot also? Then if people are interested I can do a deeper dive in a subsequent session. There might be time for this at tonight's meeting (details

[TriEmbed] talk for September"

2021-08-09 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
How about "A deep dive into a six axis sensor using gdb"? The gdb debugger is a command line debugger that can work either inside or along side Particle Workbench. It's "behind the scenes" a lot with ARM and other MPU tool chains and in this talk I would show basic operation of it as a side

[TriEmbed] Humble Bundle software cookbook deal

2021-08-04 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Scott Hall passed this to the Splatspace list and it's worth forwarding. For as little as $18 you can get 15 O'Reilly ebook titles inlcuding Raspberry Pi Cookbook, Deep Learning Cookbook, Machine Learning with Python Cookbook and cookbooks for Java, SQL, R, Kotlin, Bash, and  others.

[TriEmbed] risk assessment of GitHub Copilot

2021-07-12 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I found this short blurb about Copilot interesting: https://gist.github.com/0xabad1dea/be18e11beb2e12433d93475d72016902 -Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list

[TriEmbed] TriEmbed Regular monthly 2nd Monday meeting reminder for 7pm July 12th

2021-07-08 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
We will have our regular monthly meeting online on Monday 7/12 at 7:00 pm EDT Agenda: - Welcome - Announcements - Program: Antennas by Kevin McClaning   Kevin's slides (a superset of what will be presented) are here: https://triembed.org/doc/TRI_02_Antennas.pdf

[TriEmbed] magnetometer libraries for the rest of us for soft iron and pitch/yaw correction

2021-06-23 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I struggle (translation: I am a doofus) with linear algebra, let alone the matrix theory involved with "soft iron calibration" of magnetometer chips when they are in arbitrary orientations close to ferrous metals. I'm looking for OSS solutions and suspect they're plentiful in some problem

[TriEmbed] regrets

2021-06-15 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Very sorry I missed last night's meeting! Bummer, but sometimes domestic situations overrule desires. Carl: If you got a clean recording I'm happy to help with editing as earlier discussed. -Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list

[TriEmbed] TriEmbed Monday 7pm: RF Aspects of Circuit Design

2021-06-12 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
The regular online monthly meeting will be Monday 6/14 at 7:00 pm Agenda: -Welcome -Announcements -RF Aspects of Circuit Design by Kevin McClanning. Kevin's slides are on the web site here: https://triembed.org/doc/TRI_01_RFAspects.pdf

[TriEmbed] June 14th meeting heads up

2021-05-19 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
We will have our normal monthly meeting on Monday 6/14 at 7:00 pm, but we're giving a special heads up to help tune the agenda for a super quality introduction to radio frequency theory by Kevin McClaning. Think about your experience level and what you'd like to learn and pass your thoughts

[TriEmbed] Arduino Releases Its WiFi-Enabled RP2040 Board | Tom's Hardware (& structured assembler)

2021-05-19 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
For those wanting to have a full collection of PR2040 boards, here's the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect with WIFI and Bluetooth from the Arduino folks. Tom's sez complete IDE support from Arduino with old and new regular IDE

Re: [TriEmbed] Visual Studio Code question

2021-05-15 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
The way I read this is I just focus on the .cpp and have it explicitly #include and use forward refs that the IDE would otherwise need to insert and handle anything else to avoid the need for a #line to keep the source lines faithful in the Dwarf info, right? I'm still wrapping my head around

[TriEmbed] solved Re: an apparent Particle Workbench problem

2021-05-15 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
The correct structure was the first one: lib   lib1     library.properties     src   lib1.h   lib1.cpp   lib2     library.properties     src   lib2.h   lib2.cpp src   sketch.ino (or sketch.cpp) I had a #ifdef that should have been #ifndef that was hiding one of the

[TriEmbed] an apparent Particle Workbench problem

2021-05-13 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Thanks, folks. Jon's experience is good to know and Dan's extension will be handy for some. And in my previous posting C-S-P "reset editory history" should have been C-S-P "clear editor history". Here's a specific problem I'm having that somebody might be familiar with. I have two libraries

[TriEmbed] meetings

2021-05-13 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Speaking of, what does the group think of eventually meeting on the quad with folding chairs if the 'State admin will allow it? Many of us have been vaccinated for months, we have good habits, etc. A cone of some sort could do as a sound system for the presenter. :-) Seriously, batteries and

[TriEmbed] Visual Studio Code question

2021-05-13 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
The following is not meant to be criticism of VS Code or Particle or Microsoft, just information about their tool chain in its current state and the corner cases I seem to be unlucky enough to flush out. Poking around docs and I can't seem to find the answer to this question:  How to disable

[TriEmbed] hyperlink (maybe) Re: The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta

2021-05-12 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/03/01/announcing-the-arduino-ide-2-0-beta/ On 5/12/21 7:38 AM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta - https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/03/01/announcing-the-arduino-ide-2-0-beta/ ___ Triangle, NC Embedded

[TriEmbed] The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta

2021-05-12 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta - https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/03/01/announcing-the-arduino-ide-2-0-beta/ ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org List info:

[TriEmbed] IBM Extends Marketing Feature Size

2021-05-06 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
IBM Creates First 2nm Chip - https://www.anandtech.com/show/16656/ibm-creates-first-2nm-chip Not a 2nm feature to be found. But as we see from the tables and descriptions, the whole subject of feature size has been soft for some time since the advent of 3D transistor designs. But I couldn't

[TriEmbed] cannot present tonight

2021-04-12 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Folks,    I've had a situation come up and can't attend tonight's meeting so I'll have to do the virtual tour another time. -Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org List info:

[TriEmbed] Regular monthly 2nd Monday Meeting Reminder for 7pm April 12th

2021-04-09 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
We will have our normal monthly meeting on Monday 4/12 at 7:00 pm This meeting will not be recorded for multiple reasons, starting with the encouragement of candid discussion Agenda: - Welcome - Announcements - P.O.T.M. (Problem Of The Month by Paul MacDougal) - Program: A guided tour of

[TriEmbed] special presentation

2021-04-01 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
For those wishing to get a preview of the upcoming meeting, one talk has been put on the web site here . ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message:

[TriEmbed] short timing diagram tutorial

2021-02-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
This is a nicely written explanation of datasheet type timing diagram details that might be useful: https://maker.pro/custom/tutorial/how-to-read-timing-diagrams-a-makers-guide -Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post

Re: [TriEmbed] MSO may grow on you Re: Budget minded oscilloscope

2021-02-22 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
e I really needed to plop$1000-1500 to get what I needed and now had waste $400-500. John Vaughters On Sunday, February 21, 2021, 9:15:14 PM EST, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: If you think you might be starting to play a long game consider getting a "mixed signal" 'scope that

[TriEmbed] MSO may grow on you Re: Budget minded oscilloscope

2021-02-21 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
If you think you might be starting to play a long game consider getting a "mixed signal" 'scope that can capture, trigger on, and decode a set of digital signals as well as providing analog measurements, and consider I2C/SPI/UART/USART decoding essential, if only as an option (i.e. don't drop

Re: [TriEmbed] [Splat Space] Have you heard about the ATMegaZero ?

2021-02-21 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
What's an ATMega? (Rhetorical)Or as George Harrison put it, all things must pass. Eight bits and a couple K of RAM? Unthinkable regression.If CP/M was thought of as an OS then Micropython qualifies as the OS for PR2040. :-)Pete Original message From: Scott Hall Date: 2/21/21

[TriEmbed] ESP-32 & RP2040

2021-02-18 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Thanks to Chip McClelland I finally got off my butt and started using VSCode. I've installed the IDF plugin and should get a couple boards with JTAG support soon. My goal is to FINALLY get back to where I once belonged wrt tool chains. The end goal is to come back up to speed with gdb while

[TriEmbed] off topic: MS Outlook email filter

2021-02-18 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Sorry for being off topic, but I thought some of you might use MS Outlook and I want to help a friend tame her chaos. Can somebody point me to the specific steps for adding an email message rule that sez "if you get an email with from address X forward a copy to address Y"? Thanks, Pete

[TriEmbed] vim plugin for Particle Workbench

2021-02-05 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Anybody use this? If I :w the current file writes to disc (but :wq doesn't quit WB. I for one would see this as a feature). But neither :w or :r are implemented. Any better workarounds for this than cut/paste? Rummaged around their repo site, tried some search terms, etc, but no joy. I don't

Re: [TriEmbed] laptop fan motor control question

2021-02-03 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Brian via TriEmbed Date: 2/3/21 10:42 AM (GMT-05:00) To: triembed@triembed.org Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] laptop fan motor control question On 2/2/21 5:14 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote:> Thanks, guys. The connections were red for positive, blue for ground and > brown for what I assume

Re: [TriEmbed] laptop fan motor control question

2021-02-02 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
is copper. The IC sites have faint markings but I can just make out "attach Peltier devices here". After only eight years I may be able to store my solder paste in something smaller than a dorm fridge. :-) -Pete On 2/2/21 2:34 PM, Brian via TriEmbed wrote: On 2/2/21 1:15 PM, Pete Soper vi

Re: [TriEmbed] GitHub heads up: password logins go away August 13th

2021-01-29 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Sorry to be a chatter box. With Bitbucket you just put your credentials into the local .git/config after defining the global git username and email address. I'm 98% sure if you set up ssh keys for a particular local PC you can bypass having to enter a password to do a push but I'm too

Re: [TriEmbed] GitHub heads up: password logins go away August 13th

2021-01-29 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Bitbucket allows simple passwords. -Pete On 1/29/21 8:21 AM, jonathan hunsberger via TriEmbed wrote: I understand your use case with the FRC team. For that have you looked at other cloud git offerings that do allow password auth? (Gitlab comes to mind. They have free public repos, although

Re: [TriEmbed] FXOS8700CQ EOL, last orders December of this year

2021-01-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
The ISM303DACTR allows for vector magnitudes to be buffered instead of individual axis values but has none of the threshold and count features to only only interrupting when specific magnitudes are exceeded X times. -Pete On 1/26/21 3:50 PM, Chip McClelland via TriEmbed wrote: Pete, It is

[TriEmbed] FXOS8700CQ EOL, last orders December of this year

2021-01-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
"no replacement planned". If anybody knows of a replacement that supports vector magnitude interrupts I'd really love a pointer to it. Thanks, Pete

Re: [TriEmbed] ESP8266 Programming tip

2021-01-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
chnology keeps making the idea easier as time flies by. Dreams are good, jobs are better! `,~) Bottom line is I am loving the ESP line of products. John Vaughters On Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 10:20:04 AM EST, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: Does ESP-12E support JTAG debugging? It might be

[TriEmbed] GitHub heads up: password logins go away August 13th

2021-01-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Been a long time since I hooked up for working with a GitHub repo (the day MS bought them) and I just got a message saying it's time to get with the the token, SSH thing. If anybody's interested I could take notes about how to make this transition, but it will be Linux-centric. -Pete

[TriEmbed] more RP2040 tools

2021-01-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
There are a few more RP2040-related tool links related on the web site , thanks to Mike Fulbright. -Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org

Re: [TriEmbed] ESP8266 Programming tip

2021-01-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Does ESP-12E support JTAG debugging? It might be interesting to figure out what the crash is about (maybe there isn't actually a task scheduler present and if you don't "yield" back you've violated the API contract?). But you've stuck with the pragmatic approach, John. Thanks for the tip.

[TriEmbed] Digikey working weekends

2021-01-24 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Just got word from Digikey to say an order I sent last night has been shipped. I don't recall every seeing service over a weekend. Air freight this time, and FedEx is willing to predict delivery. :-) -Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing

Re: [TriEmbed] new $4 Raspberry Pi

2021-01-21 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
-raspberry-pi> starting on January 25th. The RP2040 should be “broadly available” to customers sometime in the second quarter of 2021. On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:28 PM Pete Soper via TriEmbed mailto:triembed@triembed.org>> wrote: Thanks for the fill and resource! Sor

Re: [TriEmbed] new $4 Raspberry Pi

2021-01-21 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Section 2.6.3 explains how flash is automagically copied into RAM  ("XIP" for execute in place in the case of instruction fetches). This reminds me of Teensy 4.x boards. -Pete On 1/21/21 12:13 PM, Michael Monaghan via TriEmbed wrote:

Re: [TriEmbed] new $4 Raspberry Pi

2021-01-21 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
ething.  That appears to be high on the list for enhancements. Mike On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:24 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed mailto:triembed@triembed.org>> wrote: What I haven't dug out yet is whether there is any icache and if they really mean that ALL flash outboard. Tha

Re: [TriEmbed] new $4 Raspberry Pi

2021-01-21 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
>>>> >>>> all for $4 >>>> >>>> very impressive. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday

Re: [TriEmbed] new $4 Raspberry Pi

2021-01-21 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Yes. This reminds me of the first time I realized that the box of TSP at the hardware store had not one molecule of trisodium phosphate in it. It was TSP[tm}. :-) A new brand is born... What I haven't dug out yet is whether there is any icache and if they really mean that ALL flash outboard.

[TriEmbed] FW: Re: new $4 Raspberry Pi

2021-01-21 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:07 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-pico/ Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list

[TriEmbed] recording Jitsi

2021-01-18 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
The Q below suggests recording Jitsi sessions is straight forward. Can anybody translate this into terms of our current use of Jitsi for TriEmbed meetings? Is it feasible for us to use this with an expectation of reliability and practicality? If it would involve a fee to the folks running the

[TriEmbed] OPEN EVERYTHING Re: Raspberry Pi perspectives

2021-01-15 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
eV recently released on RISC-V.  At $150 it's not really a RPi replacement, but could lead to proliferation of similar solutions at lower cost.On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 1:10 AM Mauricio Tavares via TriEmbed wrote:On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 10:17 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: > &g

[TriEmbed] notes from Monday?

2021-01-13 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
My annual religious observance made me cut out of the meeting close to eight and I failed to take any notes. Anybody have anything to share about what went on? It was very nice to connect and learn about Paul's amazing niece-puzzle technology as he's upped his game over the years. -Pete

Re: [TriEmbed] Monday Mtg & email list

2021-01-08 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
care less about the silly world of Social Media. But isn't that my divide? Of course it is. Not saying I don't use it, but I am saying I generally don't like it. Have a fine day, John Vaughters On Friday, January 8, 2021, 8:53:14 AM EST, Pete Soper via TriEmbed mailt

[TriEmbed] Monday Mtg & email list

2021-01-08 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
The web site has a meeting reminder now with bread crumbs to the Jitsi URL. The TriEmbed email list subscriptions have been (99.9%) monotonically decreasing for a few years. It is a shame the TAR list was lost in case a set difference could have been used for invitations to this list. So goes

[TriEmbed] H265 vs 264? Re: Amscope Re: H264, wmv or avi for microscope video?

2021-01-06 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Tell me it ain't so. Well Neil has always been very up front that he'd do what he does independent of the number of fans, their approval, etc. What annoys me is that he couldn't keep a wife. Artists.But with the new Amscope code it appears I can go with H264 or H265. Never heard of 265. Guess I

Re: [TriEmbed] H264, wmv or avi for microscope video?

2021-01-06 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Bread and butter, Scott. Thanks for the tip. -Pete On 1/6/21 4:03 PM, Scott Hall via TriEmbed wrote: Pete, I find that AVI format is better for editing a video, but WMV is better for publishing a video to others. On 1/6/21 2:10 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: Which file format is most

[TriEmbed] Amscope Re: H264, wmv or avi for microscope video?

2021-01-06 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Well, this was made partially moot by H264 giving the appearance of being supported but, when configured, the "record button" was not enabled (i.e. no joy forthcoming). The clue to that became apparent when I realized the config didn't prompt for a title and other info. Switched to .wmv, set

[TriEmbed] (proper hyperlink) Re: Monday and wisdom from another old guy

2021-01-06 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
https://www.bti360.com/what-ive-learned-in-45-years-in-the-software-industry/ (worthless Samsung flagship phone can't reliably copy hyperlinks!) ___ Triangle, NC

[TriEmbed] Monday and wisdom from another old guy

2021-01-06 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Meeting details should be coming soon.In the meantime, here are some words from a retiring software engineer who strikes me as someone who "saw it all", but more interestingly, navigated to a successful completion while gathering (IMO) many of the very best insights. It might be fun to discuss

[TriEmbed] Raspberry Pi perspectives

2020-12-27 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Here are some criticisms of RPI that this list will hopefully take as constructive. Some good tech details that many of us may have been unaware of.https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/Pete___ Triangle, NC Embedded

[TriEmbed] Apple 1 replica

2020-12-14 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
https://mailchi.mp/smartykit.io/project-update-december-all ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site:

[TriEmbed] missing FXOS8700CQ breakout pics (6 axis accel/mag)

2020-12-14 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
The FXOS8700CQ breakout board following up on one from 2013. Components on bottom, silkscreen top. Four layers. About 1/4 square inch. OSH Park rendering of top below pic. Uses a four resistor array in 0603 package (omitted with SPI) and four cap array in 0805.

[TriEmbed] A few notes from December 14th meeting

2020-12-14 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Seven attendees. Agreed a second meeting reminder should be in store for next month. Stemming from the problem of the month: mailbox monitor Sensor ideas (sparse from faulty memory): accelerometer, switch pressed/released by mailbox door, mercury tilt switch radio link to house Some

[TriEmbed] anybody have a surplus Raspberry Pi 3?

2020-12-11 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I need a second one and wonder if there are any local ones gathering dust? -Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org

[TriEmbed] test: please ignore

2020-12-09 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
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[TriEmbed] some depth to the Google AI researcher story

2020-12-05 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebruSent by my phone with an editing mind of its own___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org List

Re: [TriEmbed] Powering ESP32 from an 8v golf cart battery

2020-11-19 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
M. Wettroth (984) 329-5420 (home) (919) 349-9875 (cell) *From:* TriEmbed [mailto:triembed-boun...@triembed.org <mailto:triembed-boun...@triembed.org>] *On Behalf Of *Pete Soper via TriEmbed *Sent:* Monday, November 16

Re: [TriEmbed] Powering ESP32 from an 8v golf cart battery

2020-11-16 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
On 11/15/20 10:34 PM, The MacDougals via TriEmbed wrote: Thanks for the responses.  Keep them coming. My question is more on “how do I tell from a datasheet what the Vin min spec is.” DC/DC buck converters typically advertise a reasonable range of input voltages. My reading of the

[TriEmbed] FYI about this list

2020-11-13 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
The email list is being bombarded with SPAM and I'm having to visit the admin interface frequently to discard it and add to the black list. You don't see it because this list is moderated: non-subscribers who are legit can get their msgs onto our list (for a while before being invited to

Re: [TriEmbed] arduino.cc down for a week

2020-11-10 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
On Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 9:24:41 AM EST, Pete Soper via TriEmbed mailto:triembed@triembed.org>> wrote: Charles Lord helped me establish this "outage" is an artifact of my AT DSL route to the site. But my faith in https://www.isitdownrightnow.com &

Re: [TriEmbed] arduino.cc down for a week

2020-11-10 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Charles Lord helped me establish this "outage" is an artifact of my AT DSL route to the site. But my faith in https://www.isitdownrightnow.com was also eroded, as it showed arduino.cc as "down for six days 18 hours". Whatever. Please continue with your regularly scheduled program. :-) -Pete

[TriEmbed] arduino.cc down for a week

2020-11-10 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I can get to URLs "under" arduino.cc (e.g. here ) but the main site is not accessible and it's been this way for some time. Anybody know what's up with that? -Pete ___ Triangle, NC

[TriEmbed] workaround for funky (unusable) loader output from Arduino IDE 1.8.13

2020-11-06 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
If you get something like this: And so there is no clue what the loader error really is, select the funky "overpunch line" and paste it someplace and (the bottom) will look like this: -Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To

[TriEmbed] Newark 15% coupon: don't get excited

2020-11-04 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I tried it and clicked on *the first thing offered on the web site*, went through the whole order process and the 15% was never deducted at the point where one more click would have completed the order. So there is some more fine print that is so fine it's impossible to see. I'm so very tired

[TriEmbed] After eight and a half years, an RPI Foundation vision is complete: RPI PC

2020-11-02 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/ Those who remember the laptop per child project and its $100 target, behold the alternative ready to leverage the 1/4 bazillion recyclable monitors

Re: [TriEmbed] Triembed - Open Proposal

2020-10-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
t+Brief+RPi+CM4.pdf>). -Pete On 10/26/20 5:00 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: Hi Kevin,   What about a cheap but capable board that could host Android and provide a platform that could run many "smartphone apps" without the "smartphone cost"? Some kind of AI acceleration

Re: [TriEmbed] Triembed - Open Proposal

2020-10-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Hi Kevin,   What about a cheap but capable board that could host Android and provide a platform that could run many "smartphone apps" without the "smartphone cost"? Some kind of AI acceleration would be a plus. -Pete On 10/26/20 2:57 PM, Kevin Schilf via TriEmbed wrote: Triembed, From

[TriEmbed] Nucleo 32 board cautionary tale

2020-10-02 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I just wasted a good chunk of a day chasing weird sensor behavior with a Nucleo STM32F031K6 board. After seeing three flavors of other misbehavior on top of the little detail of the sensor giving goofy measurements it occurred to me to look at the sensor chip power supply fed from the 3.3v pin

[TriEmbed] stm32 bootloader interface for the rest of us

2020-10-01 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I'm investigating easy ways to flash a low end STM32 chip through it's UART and the (STM32F031x6) datasheet had about 10 words on the subject. But I found the 374 page doc below. Before I dive into that I wonder if there's a simple program that runs on Linux or Cygwin to take whatever binary

[TriEmbed] more detail to the "attaching to the copper tubes" Re: OT: RF questions

2020-09-29 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
One more detail that might be of general interest. The place where you attach the xmit output and ground to the two dipole legs determines the feedpoint impedance. If you attach to the closest practical two positions near the center the impedance will be at or near what the model predicted

Re: [TriEmbed] OT: RF questions

2020-09-29 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I think it's going to be GREAT! And which end is down is perfectly arbitrary if there's no circuit ground path to the "outside". And if it were me I'd try it and if signal strength is poor then consider a balun.  I didn't spend much time with the datasheet but couldn't figure out what the

Re: [TriEmbed] OT: RF questions

2020-09-28 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
I modeled 1/2" diameter elements with EZNEC and the length of each 1/4wl element comes out to 29.1 inches when cut for 98MHz with the antenna 10 feet up. The graph of SWR vs frequency from 88 to 108MHz is below. The closer to resonance the lower the

[TriEmbed] Off topic vis a vis nostalgia X Minus One - Single Episodes : Old Time Radio Researchers Group : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

2020-09-20 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
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