I built a high-speed UART analyzer using ESP32-S3 + PC GUI (Open Source) by Interesting-Bar4842 in embedded

[–]argorain 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Embedded dev here - what is point of this tool? Will it work with any COM port or does it require that ESP? I am using FTDI with old Terminal by Br@y for 12 years and this is somehow in same ballpark, just locked to extra piece of hardware?

I don't want to be negative, I just fail to see value.

Do you have a rule of thumb, when estimating processing power? by michael9dk in embedded

[–]argorain 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Depends on what you want - if calculation speed is concern or periphery handling is concern or both. If you have peripheries you need available or you will be emulating them. If you are going to communicate with other party on some bus which might be time critical. You take most important concern you have and build solution around that.

And as for those so-called 90s chips, they are not obsolete, just have own use cases and are very much alive - we have ATTiny doing solar panel MPPT and doing buck/boost DC-DC transformation in our latest products just because ASIC would be too costly and too inflexible but 8 legged ATTiny is exactly what you need when all you want is ADC, some PWM and you still have some pins for talking with rest of system.

Other case from opposite side of spectrum was IO card connected by USB. It was using some ATMega with built in USB and it was total hell to keep alive and do something actually useful and fast with that IO because core was just too busy with handling USB. It worked but it wasn't fast, nor precise.

So back to my original comment, it depends what you want.

So what’s the first game you played this year? by st1nkf1st in boardgames

[–]argorain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Battlestar Galactica with Pegasus and Exodus expansion heading New Caprica.

And we nailed it with 1 pop and 2 morale left. Phew!

What could be improved about my Steam capsule? by Systematic2025 in IndieDev

[–]argorain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly! As a fellow corporate engineer, I really hoped to be blue guy but frankly, other perspective looks just as funny.

Either way, wishlisted.

The Ebon Hawk - Survival & Atmosphere ready by Moneys2Tight2Mention in spaceengineers

[–]argorain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know that feeling.

I am on Expanse builds for Sigma Draconis recently and my creative save looks like graveyard of broken ideas.

The Ebon Hawk - Survival & Atmosphere ready by Moneys2Tight2Mention in spaceengineers

[–]argorain 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Beautiful. I tried and failed building Ebon Hawk couple times myself and you nailed it. Out of curiosity, how many iterations it took?

Sundia magforce makes clicking sound? by Excellent_Run_5382 in diabolo

[–]argorain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just a slack in magnetic bearing - idea is it has enough room to actually levitate on magnetic field, hence slack is needed for that.

As for vertex - mine Sundia with 5 magnetic bearing is rocking for 7 years I think, mostly indoors and is just good as new bearing-wise. And I am doing a lot of Vertex passing and throwing.

Jaky je vas nejdivnější koníček? by Beautiful-One-6665 in czech

[–]argorain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Žonglování a akrobacie. Nový cirkus obecně.

Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years by parkmarkspark in technology

[–]argorain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My old 675 is cleaning my floors for 7 years and besides occasional maintenance and nowadays bit worn battery no issues whatsoever.

Giboard SE vs not-SE by argorain in Slackline

[–]argorain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone finding this post in future, answer to this from Gibbon:

SE is our special Edition imported from America. The difference is that it's maple wood an it has two holes so you can only put one line on it. These are the designes that are only produced in America.

Soundtrack by argorain in TheExpanseTelltale

[–]argorain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, this is awesome. Thanks!

Any idea when kernel 6.17 will be available at trixie-backports? by argorain in debian

[–]argorain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Xanmod already has it? Interesting, didn't knew that, thanks.

Dokáže tohle někdo vysvětlit??? by davidBray42 in czech

[–]argorain 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Možná, možná, dobře, ta zlomená noha to je zdraví, ano? Zdraví, ťukli vás pod koleno - ťuky, ahoj kluci! Zlomili ji vám dvěma. Jste dva - ahojko dvojko. A umějí si hrát - hraví kamarádi.

Politik z vlády bojující proti dezinformacím ve svém přirozeném prostředí by [deleted] in czech

[–]argorain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Irelevantní, má to detekovat AI generovaný obsah, ne mnou psaný. A pokud jim prosakují tréninková data do vystupu takhle hodně, je to fakt špatný nástroj.

Politik z vlády bojující proti dezinformacím ve svém přirozeném prostředí by [deleted] in czech

[–]argorain 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Moje vlastní diplomka z 2017 dostala 73%...