Message from @arkandas

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2016-12-26 15:26:09 UTC  

Not that much

2016-12-26 15:26:40 UTC  

yeah, it was suppose to teach you the basics to design your own logic gates and make a mux

2016-12-26 15:26:46 UTC  

really bad teacher

2016-12-26 15:27:38 UTC  

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

2016-12-26 15:28:24 UTC  

yeah, I used a spartan for another project almost drag and dropping example code

2016-12-26 15:28:32 UTC  

depends on what you intend

2016-12-26 15:29:39 UTC  

But yea what a world we live in where the most economically viable things are usb power banks, not even a radio

2016-12-26 15:29:49 UTC  

Pretty stale

2016-12-26 15:30:47 UTC  

Where is my cyberpunk distopia?

2016-12-26 15:30:48 UTC  

Expressif is a cool shop but they're in Shanghai

2016-12-26 15:30:58 UTC  

Shanghai

2016-12-26 15:30:59 UTC  

I love the esp8266

2016-12-26 15:31:57 UTC  

I built a small accelerometer with it, really cool project

2016-12-26 15:31:58 UTC  

yeah it's kinda amazing how it kinda just appeared in 2014

2016-12-26 15:32:28 UTC  

Have you played with esp32 yt

2016-12-26 15:32:54 UTC  

Seems a little choked up in supply?

2016-12-26 15:32:59 UTC  

I'm not paying 20 bucks for the development boards

2016-12-26 15:33:19 UTC  

Yeah I'm thinking the price would drop eventually

2016-12-26 15:33:49 UTC  

Or maybe they're trying to recoup the costs of the laowais they hired

2016-12-26 15:34:27 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/189466684938125312/262966367794364416/20161117_150947_HDR.jpg

2016-12-26 15:34:38 UTC  

found a picture

2016-12-26 15:34:54 UTC  

meanwhile im playing with a bbc microbit

2016-12-26 15:35:08 UTC  

it sent tcp packets to a socket that acted as a virtual serial port

2016-12-26 15:35:19 UTC  

The same form factor with some sort of gsm chip baked in along with upstream vendor support could potentially change the world

2016-12-26 15:35:29 UTC  

and then a python app read from the serial and plotted the data

2016-12-26 15:35:32 UTC  

really fun

2016-12-26 15:35:51 UTC  

Cool 😃

2016-12-26 15:36:25 UTC  

I still have like 10 esp8266 12E

2016-12-26 15:36:36 UTC  

and i don't know what to do with them..

2016-12-26 15:37:27 UTC  

If you've never played with rockets before, get one (they're cheap) and you can use them as live data loggers

2016-12-26 15:37:53 UTC  

what kind of rocket?

2016-12-26 15:37:59 UTC  

are the expensive?

2016-12-26 15:38:10 UTC  

they*

2016-12-26 15:38:17 UTC  

Estes; nah like $20-30 for a kit

2016-12-26 15:38:45 UTC  

With a pad and a janky electric igniter

2016-12-26 15:38:53 UTC  

oh boy

2016-12-26 15:39:12 UTC  

how do you retrieve it after it enters orbit

2016-12-26 15:39:51 UTC  

They don't go up that high, only thousand or two feet

2016-12-26 15:39:56 UTC  

yea was just jokin

2016-12-26 15:40:01 UTC  

if they enter orbit for 20$ Elon Musk would be broke

2016-12-26 15:40:06 UTC  

lol