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Comment Re:Let's not forget (Score 1) 177

by gazingous on Friday February 05, 2016 @03:47PM (#51448805) Attached to: Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share

The hams fought it fiercely but the interference wasn't just to hams. The problem is most radio users don't understand why they are suddenly seeing interference. They cannot pin it down to the power line internet. The real problem would have been the interference 100s of miles away since the signal was on HF.

Comment Re:Uhm. What? (Score 1) 177

by gazingous on Friday February 05, 2016 @03:44PM (#51448775) Attached to: Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share

That's a neat trick since those words weren't used in the article.

Submission + - Nurses use Makerspace to invent custom health care solutions (hackaday.com)

Submitted by wd5gnr on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @02:55PM

wd5gnr writes: University of Texas Medical Branch and an MIT initiative have joined forces to create the first maker space in a hospital. Often nurses see things that would make their jobs easier or a patient's care better and now they can create custom solutions to those problems. They aim to spread this to other hospitals and form a community of medical makers.

Submission + - ARM Processor on a Breadboard (hackaday.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 09, 2015 @02:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: The normal Arduino is easy to use and cheap, but it is a reasonably slow 8 bit processor with limited memory. Why do people use them? They are simple to use and set up. Hackaday shows how to take a cheap ($6) 32-bit CPU in a breadboard-friendly package, plug in a small number of parts (resistors, LEDs, and a cable), and use an online Arduino-like IDE to program it. The chip is way more powerful than an 8-bit Arduino and the code is comparable in complexity to an Arduino sketch that does the same thing. An easy way to get into embedded without having to suffer through 8 bit processors. And the new Arduinos also use 32-bit ARM so that's an option too.

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