Message from @shadowedROM
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You're still into hardware then, *kinda*
I took one class with FPGA design on VHDL
Or work in medical decices
I hated it
Devices
Verilog is a little better
Not that much
yeah, it was suppose to teach you the basics to design your own logic gates and make a mux
really bad teacher
that would kill it yea. Most people use fpgas for glue logic anyways, which makes sense I guess. Pair a big fast chip with a bunch of programmable logic
yeah, I used a spartan for another project almost drag and dropping example code
depends on what you intend
But yea what a world we live in where the most economically viable things are usb power banks, not even a radio
Pretty stale
Where is my cyberpunk distopia?
Expressif is a cool shop but they're in Shanghai
Shanghai
I love the esp8266
I built a small accelerometer with it, really cool project
yeah it's kinda amazing how it kinda just appeared in 2014
Seems a little choked up in supply?
I'm not paying 20 bucks for the development boards
Yeah I'm thinking the price would drop eventually
Or maybe they're trying to recoup the costs of the laowais they hired
found a picture
meanwhile im playing with a bbc microbit
it sent tcp packets to a socket that acted as a virtual serial port
The same form factor with some sort of gsm chip baked in along with upstream vendor support could potentially change the world
and then a python app read from the serial and plotted the data
really fun
Cool 😃
I still have like 10 esp8266 12E
and i don't know what to do with them..
If you've never played with rockets before, get one (they're cheap) and you can use them as live data loggers
what kind of rocket?
are the expensive?
they*
Estes; nah like $20-30 for a kit
With a pad and a janky electric igniter