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Welcome back Jeff! Always a good time when Mr Keyzer stops by. YESSIR.
- Jeff is preparing for the winter in Washington.
- The MakerBot is possibly going closed source.
- Kickstarter tells hardware companies, “We’re Not A Store“
- The LIFX bulb has caught a particularly large amount of flac.
- Chris wonders if people care about non-connected devices anymore. The IoT could very well come from Kickstarter.
- The Art of Electronics 3rd edition will be out next year! Or will it?
- Did you know: Dave is 1.028 smoots, Chris is 1.075 smoots and Jeff is 1.100 smoots? Find out more about crazy measurements here.
- Hardware is dead? Well, computer hardware maybe. But who thinks they can make money from computer hardware?
- A bunch of experts from Harvard say what we’ve been saying as well: “Manufacturing is important for the economy“. Duh.
- Can manufacturing ever be abstracted out, similar to an API? Is that what CMs do now?
That’s all for our time with Jeff. We’ll be sure to have him back again soon. As always, you can find out more about the stories, comment on them and add some of your own story ideas at The Amp Hour subreddit.
Smoots – 1.028? 1.048? Closer to binary? What binary is that?
Ha, yup. I’m an analog kid in a digital world, calling Dave out on the wrong binary multiple. 1024 it is.
LIFX – im sure they will ship. They are from a hackerspace + their actual demo (not renders) looked shitty enough (very dim LED, barely 25W replacement). HD video glasses, Ouoya, hexabright and other garbage products designed in Paintshop with no hardware knowledge on the other hand ….
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‘shave your head’
Boy, that escalated quickly.
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ivanjh 1028 is just 2 bits, lovely number
1028 is a THREE BYTE number! (at least 17 bits) Two bits can only represent 0..3
My “little” brother is 6’10”. Being so tall, he is ALWAYS asked how tall he is. Years ago, I made a list of equivalent lengths in different units so that he could answer them with things like “239 Barleycorns”, or “20.32 billion angstroms”.
“Teensy is an Arduino derivative”
The first two Teensy’s used the AVR 32u4 with a custom, closed software stack.
The Teensy 3 is ARM based. None of them are derived from the Arduino.
Yet another bad assumption on my part. So what’s the benefit then?
Teensy uses Arduino IDE and I libraries
I’m so glad Jeff is back on!!
What people forget is: in 1950, when manufacturing was 27% of all jobs, it was smaller than the agriculture sector and not immensely larger than retail/distribution or even post-war construction.Today all these are dwarfed by financial services — or even healthcare, which is 17.6% of our economy (but half of that is really health *insurance*, a financial service, not a medical one). It’s impossible to compare the two numbers directly because the whole playing field has changed