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Congrats! Looks like a very clean app. Because it isn't clear from the launch page: can it play sounds? I'm wondering if it can "audition" chords so that I can get a double-check o…

I have used QML with good success in an embedded environment, although the embedded processor I was using did support OpenGL. If you want to use QML in even more constrained system…

The latest high-end PCB tools actually provide useful autorouting features, because they have figured out that if you combine human ability to solve the difficult pattern-recogniti…

Having used both REAPER and Pro Tools professionally, my opinion is that REAPER is not basic at all -- it has every feature I have needed in a DAW, it's easy to use (for me, at lea…

RF Explorer is a "budget" option at around $300-400: http://rfexplorer.com/models/ Professional handheld spectrum analyzers are in the $3k-50k range from the likes of Keysight, Anr…

Feature requests for Issues: priorities, and states other than open and closed. These are the biggest things keeping us from using GitLab issues rather than an external tool. We ne…

No, LTSpice simulations are not real-time. However, there have been attempts to make that happen[1]! [1] http://www.livespice.org/

Probably the most affordable way to get some confidence is to connect two computers at either end of the cable and do a transfer speed test using iperf or something like that. If y…

Well, not quite the same thing... the TP-Link product is 2.4GHz only, which is kind of a big deal these days. Support in DD-WRT and Tomato for 5GHz and 802.11ac protocols is somewh…

Try running it under qemu[1] or bochs[2]. A "virtual machine" software such as VMWare or Virtualbox is not the same as a low-level "bare metal" CPU emulator such as the two I sugge…

Pedals are still the state of the art. Why would any performing musician want to use a smartphone instead of something designed to be controlled by feet, even if Android had someth…

*512MB. This is not an Apple innovation... I believe all SSDs have caches hanging off of the controller, used for both write and read. Flash memory is very much slower than DRAM wh…

Not really, depending on the engine. Some engines are built sturdily enough that they can make that power without anything other than bolt-on modifications. For example, the Saab B…

Their parts presumably take about 22 weeks to manufacture and get to the end customer. They probably cannot afford to build the parts ahead of time and stock them, so they only kic…

Many hobby things with USB ports are using the default VID/PID from the chip vendor (generally FTDI's USB-to-Serial converter chips, or the on-chip USB controller of Atmel/Microchi…

Considering that an injection molding run takes ~$100k minimum to start up, it's not that surprising.

realistic Apple environments :-) (I realize there are one or two Android and Windows phones in the list, but still...)

With companies like OSH Park[1], the cost barrier to getting a bare board professionally manufactured is so low that you ought to just try it sometime. If you already sketch schema…

Yup. You can't take 6 Google Glasses and suction-cup them all over a car.

I don't like this trend. A modern self-hosted forum is badly needed. We've moved away from the time when any self-hosted web software had to be written in PHP now that many turnkey…

I use Subsonic to solve that particular problem. Works well if you have enough upload bandwidth.

That's great for web developers, but what about those of us who are building desktop or embedded software?

I run PyCharm in 64-bit linux and have no font problems. Perhaps you should ask in the Jetbrains community forums, and include some more details / screenshots?

Bad firmware updates are (almost always) recoverable, just not always (easily) by the end user. What happens when you lose power is that you need to use the hardware-level debuggin…