Comments on: #234 – We’ll Believe It When We See It – Hiring Hypercatalectic Helpelp

By: cjwoodall

cjwoodall — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 23:36:06 +0000

Looks like ROS does run on Pi: http://wiki.ros.org/ROSberryPi/Setting%20up%20ROS%20on%20RaspberryPi

By: ru4mj12 (@ru4mj12)

ru4mj12 (@ru4mj12) — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:17:30 +0000

Dave mentioned Mike’s Youtube channel for quality technical electronic videos (due in part because they’re spinoffs of his day job).. but what’s the name of the channel?

My 2015 predictions:
1) A PayPal alternative. Many seem to despise Paypal, yet nothing else has taken hold.

2) Yahoo’s Screen will carve out a niche market away from Youtube for content developers.

BTW, regarding the amphour’s picture on last week’s episode, there’s a show called Inside Man with Morgan Spurlock that did a segment on robots.. and the Beam Pro telepresence robot is exactly what you guys were talking about!

By: Rafael Souza

Rafael Souza — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:47:43 +0000

Dave, for nuclear age aficionados, check out also a good book about “the other side”: Stalin and the bomb. http://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Bomb-Soviet-Atomic-1939-1956/dp/0300066643

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:15:33 +0000

Hey guys, I wanted to clarify a few things about RISC-V. First, it’s NOT a processor. It’s an ISA specification. Anybody – students, researchers, start-ups, corporations – they are all free to build their own RISC-V processor. No patent issues, no licensing fees. They can even keep their processor closed-source if they want.

We know of at least one company with a product that contains a RISC-V core they built themselves and there are many other companies making RISC-V cores as well. At Berkeley, we have open-sourced one of our cores called Rocket. It has been fab’ed out to silicon 6 or 7 times now. You can put Rocket on an FPGA if you want, although it’s not designed to be a soft-core (we would’ve made different micro-architectural decisions if that were the case). We use Rocket as a general-purpose application core to drive our research accelerators. LowRISC is using Rocket for their own open-source SoC product. Check them out!

By: David Kohanbash

David Kohanbash — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:49:16 +0000

In reply to David Kohanbash. Also they do a lot of robot mobility testing at NASA Glenn

By: David Kohanbash

David Kohanbash — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:28:13 +0000

That’s a great image for this episode! I am still laughing.