Website is totally obnoxious on a mobile device - no pinch zoom, no scrolling, must press little dots to "scroll".
Wow, thanks, I didn't even realize there was more than one page because there was no scroll bar.
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope, can confirm it sucks on mac desktops too. At least with an Apple magic mouse.
I bet it looks brilliant in Lynx
A couple of years ago, your comment (as well as mine) would have been downvoted. Now - only my comment will be downvoted. What's HN going to be in another couple of years?
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
it is a very common and well known term in the Arduino world, and the physical appearance of the device with all of the header pins would immediately suggest shield applications to anyone who has spent time with Arduino
Why is 'shield' more appealing than 'daughterboard' anyway? Gender neutrality?
Linguistic economy.
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#74Looks like a Carambola2 (19€). http://8devices.com/carambola-2 Same amount of RAM and flash, but different SOC.
There's several similar boards; off-hand I can think of the VoCore, the AsiaRF AWM002, and a couple of unbranded Chinese ones.
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#75Could I have this please with 802.11ac WiFi, 5GHz, preferrably supporting a 4x4 MIMO setup. I would love to have an open access point for my network. I like to have more than 300Mbps and to avoid the 2.4GHz network though even more. I understand this owuld be more expensive, but would be willing to pay a higher price.
I'm curious to know why you want to "avoid the 2.4GHz network". Can you please explain why?
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Mbit thing is quite common in the embedded world. When I saw this my first thought was "oh wow, twice the specs of my current favorite OpenWRT hack platform (the TL-703N) at about the same price and with gpio exposed . Awesome.)"
I never see Mbit in the embedded world when talking about RAM or Flash. I always see KB or MB, never Mbit.
Agreed, bits should only be used for bandwidth.
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#77What are the power specs? For battery powered applications like the shown mini-quadcopter you really need to know the watts as well as weight. Admittedly, WiFi has a very spiky power consumption profile.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is 'shield' more appealing than 'daughterboard' anyway? Gender neutrality?
Linguistic economy.
"Card" is two characters less than "shield", and has a long history in computing denoting a circuit board that is plugged into another circuit board. (Whereas "daughter" is usually not redundant in "daughterboard", it can almost always be dropped from "daughtercard".)
Examples: network card; disk controller card; video card; SD card.
"Shield" is such an entrenched term in electronics, from long before computing, that it's completely stupid to try give it another meaning. It's also not from some specialized sub-domain whose rare terminology can be reused; shielding is employed in all kinds of devices.
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#79It feels like theres like a Lagrangian point out there in device space that these devices are converging on. It doesn't quite exist yet, but we are getting tantalizingly close. It networks like a Cisco, runs linux like a server, has GPIO like an Arduino, and costs as much as a Latte. Once it exists, its almost like computorium, becoming the center of nearly every maker project and then staying there because its so ch…
Serious makers want this price point with an atheros chipset. In lieu of that, the open-mesh.com routers are a good choice if you are trying to do low level wireless innovation.