regomodo's comments

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: Hand solderable 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 in TQFP package

Don't even need a hotplate. Any soldering iron will a concave tip, lots of flux & a touch of solder. Takes 4 strokes/drags and some extra flux afterwards to remove bridges (usually the 1st 2 pins on each drag).

It's surprisingly easy and i've had no issues on up to tqfp144's.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

for I in {00..19};

do wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo... ;

done

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: ColorHug is an open source display colorimeter

I have a spyder 3 that works in Linux via argyllcms.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed

mid 20s, uk.

I, along with my younger bro & sis and friends, had to be back in by dark and rarely had to say where we were going. sometimes we'd go off on bike rides well out of the city or even take a small boat we found and row/motor it around the rivers(tamar/tavy) (no safety equipment, repaired it ourselves, hilariously overloaded). fires, explosions, trespass, "base"/bunker/dam building, tree-climbing, ragging my donated scrambler in wasteland, etc were all regular activities.

Now I see my other bro and sis (~10yrs younger than I) and they always have homework or are on their laptops. my youngest brother used to go with us sometimes when he was ~4 so he knows what "play" is but none of his friends want or are allowed to join him.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: Raspberry Pi demos $25 PC running 1080p video, promises CD-quality audio

It's being developed by a non-profit foundation.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: NETduino

Whether the item works is the least of your problems when it comes to military jets. Trust me, if it's UK-mil it's a bureaucratic nightmare (expensive) to develop software that can be proven to be of high-integrity. To reduce costs you use stuff that has been proven safe before (we still use 8051s and wire-wrap).

Put simply, if the pilot makes decisions on how to fly (in flight or on later analysis) based on an electronic piece of equipment, it'll have cost shitloads. This fact is why I want to get out of mil-aero in the UK; developing embedded soft/elec is mostly about jumping through hoops.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: NETduino

Depends on the duration.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: Japan's preference for hardware over software is fading

As much as i'd like to have a universal device sometimes a well-crafted, well-designed, dedicated device is hard to give up once you are used to it.

Would you rather use a TI-calc emulator on android or the actual device?

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: Thorium nuclear reactors: a possible solution of the energy crisis? (video)

Waste disposal/processing isn't cheap and Thorium produces significantly less waste than Uranium.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: Researchers create rollerball-pen ink to draw circuits

This has given me an idea: an etch resist pen in a plotter-like setup. It's about time I use the steppers i pulled out of old Epson printer and use up some of my copper-clad boards.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: Echoprint: Open-source music fingerprinting

I've raised an issue over at github https://github.com/echonest/echoprint-codegen/issues/10

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: Echoprint: Open-source music fingerprinting

It's pretty late here so not much enthusiasm right now. I'll raise an issue. Cheers.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: Echoprint: Open-source music fingerprinting

A very interesting project. I've whipped up a little test program(https://github.com/regomodo/handy_scripts/blob/master/echopr...) in Python and found either the codegen or echonest to be a little buggy. Daft Punk fingerprints come back with some very unusual results. http://pastebin.com/8Tfvd0SZ

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: New multiferroic alloy turns waste heat into green electricity for free

It sounds very similar to a peltier junction.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: Hammocks Make Sleep Easier, Deeper

and enjoy being randomly clawed in the chest when sleeping

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: Hammocks Make Sleep Easier, Deeper

Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the hammock complex on third.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: The end of Facebook

Exactly, like myself, i've noticed a lot less noise from my friends on facebook. In my circle people use FB considerably less than when I first used it 5years ago.

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: StackOverflow Data Illustrates Why I Prefer Hiring Experienced Developers

Maybe older developers have more time to go on SO?

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: This Guy Has My MacBook

How many more miles on the clock did it have? :)

regomodo | 14 years ago | on: This Guy Has My MacBook

I knew that both times. my brothers and sisters and i have been brought up unorthodoxly and have all had our asses handed back and noses broken for standing up for each other and ourselves.

rightly or wrongly I'd do it again and both times in the past I expected to be stabbed as I know chavs have a thing for flick and butterfly knives. I had recurring dreams when growing up of being stabbed in the neck, always defending someone. I always wake up in a pile of cold sweat with my heart going a million bpm. thankfully I rarely get them now.