Would you like to send anything back for me to put up on the site?

Lack of a SDRAM controller was why I sold off my DE0-nano...

Due to ROM and cost limitations the original Sinclair Scientific calulator only produced approximate answers, maybe to 3 or four digits.
This was far more accurate than the answers given by a slide rule....

For more info have a look at this page Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35

It does in fact have 64Mb or SDRAM (8MB). I wrote a SDRAM controller for it, that also works on the Papilio Pro...

You missed out Saanlima's Pipistrello. A nice Spartan LX45 board, with PMODs, HDMI and other goodies.

If I found the new antibiotic while testing pants or bugs in my garden for fun I wouldn't be too pissed if I didn't get any money for it.

I would just be happy to have helped,

I'ld rather have a Cubietruck to have with (or even a Cubieboard V2, which is the same price point).

Being able to replace the core of your tablet doesn't fix sctrached screens, aged batteries, and general wear... and any tablet that you can replace something on is going to be thicker and less "tablet like" than a 'nice' current tablet.

Like churchs, they need to capture the next generation. The first hit of relegious salvation is always free.

FTFY.

Can't wait to see if this is possible to see this effect with the Raspberry Pi and a Pi NoIR camera, given that you can
use the material from inside a floppy disk as a visible light filter

So this is an attempt to solve what is not a technology problem but a political one?

  I can't see that this will ever be able to make blood tests affordable to you - it will be used by the existing providers to increase profit margins while doing less work.

I don't know if I should laugh or cry at that. What stops somebody setting up a lab - you could pay a lab tech's salary twice over to just do one manual test a day.

Is there some sort of cartel that doesn't supply equipment / reagents / consumables to labs that don't toe the line?

Or are the labs being screwed by their suppliers?

I used to look after the local Lab Management System for a medical lab here in New Zealand.

Here blood tests are pretty much free when ordered by a doctor - IIRC the ministry of health gives the tester around $5 for the simple tests... if you walked off the street they might charge you $US15 for doing the paperwork.

The results were ready in a few hours, and then an EDI-style clearing house is used to deliver the results back into the doctor's patient management system, so a four hour turn-around was not unheard of (as long as the sample was taken at the lab and not the doctor's surgery).

Hi Limor,

A lot of open-source supported don't appreciate that there is a large component of closed source hardware components supporting their favorite platforms. maybe the BIOS on a PC, CPU microcode, firmware for ethernet or RAID adapters, the internal CPU architecture, the chipsets that support the CPUs. Even when you have the full HDL source for the system (e.g the OpenRISC CPU or the ATmega compatible AVR8 core) converting that to working silicon is all but impossible unless you have won a lottery - and to do so you need to use closed source tools.

How does Adafruit balance its Open Source ideals with the realities of providing up-to-date, high quality and low-cost products? How do you draw the line to deciede when a product is open enough for you and your company?

Warmest regards,

Mike

I use a HDMI -> DVI-D cable with no problems. I like 3.3V though, all the cool sensors use 3.3V logic...

But I think the bigger sin is no RTC!

So why can't you run OpenBSD? Nothing about the hardware forces you to run Linux. Here is a tutorial on how to write and boot your own basic kernel.

However, if your faith forbids the touching of 'unclean' hardware, then who am I to question it!