Where does the time go? C U all next week!!!
OMG, 2:10PM? I gotta go. TCHAU!
Bue, Duane. Take it easy today.
@Duane: See you!! And good luck with your Zed...
I've got to get off to my other duties. Talk to you all later.
@tomii: D'oh. Computer just threw a reboot. I'm having a bad APP day...
It was the "computer virus" you're talking about before that happened! Get away from my Windows in the basement, please!
Next I'll likely succomb to a fit of narcolepsy...
@Max: "(but I do know that they've sorted that problem also) -- I'll tell you when I know more"
OK!
@intseeker: .. a police car reversed into him in a garage forecourt (the police admitted liability :-) Was that in the US? (grin)
They did try to wriggle and squirm a bit -- first of all they asked if he was really getting gas, or just cutting across the forecourt -- so them made him turn the ignition -- and saw that he was almost totally out of gas.
Then they tried to say that he wa sgoing too fast, but the garage had a video and that showed he wasn't -- so eventually they said "OK, our fault" -- the police guy driving the car was really upset, because he had to go take a urine test (standard procedure when a policeman is involved in an accident)
Tomii - I hate it when that happens.
D'oh. Computer just threw a reboot. I'm having a bad APP day...
Max - That would be a good session to attend, but alas, I'll be over in salon 4 talking about robots at the same time.
@Max: "He was certainly disgruntled about it --"
Poor guy. :0(
@intseeker: What about "connecting" the whole thing to the hat, let alone the Fedora?
Superglue!
Just kidding -- I don't know how they are doing that (but I do know that they've sorted that problem also) -- I'll tell you when I know more
@Max: .... a police car reversed into him in a garage forecourt (the police admitted liability :-)
Was that in the US? (grin)
@Duane: It's those mechanical things that seem to get me.
You'll meet David at Design West -- you shoudl talk to him about thsi stuff -- also he'll be covering it in his paper (Click Here to see that session) -- I'm definately going to be attending that one
@Duane: ...bummer, that he got hit....
He was certainly disgruntled about it -- he thought that we'd stop him driving because his insurance would rocket -- he didn;t realize that since it wasn't his fault our insurance wouldn;t be affected
@Max: Yes I'm!! By the way, I've tried to answer the 20 to 14 nm question. It annoyed me some time ago and made a little research about that
Max - That's a good call. But bummer, that he got hit.
@Max: The wireless board an. . . . . this off the beanie and add it to a fendora
According to David (theCTO at Synapse), one of the trickiest things was working out how to connect the motor to the propeller sha
What about "connecting" the whole thing to the hat, let alone the Fedora?
Max - re: "one of the trickiest things was working out how to connect the motor to the propeller shaft"
It's those mechanical things that seem to get me. I have a working set of wireless medium power motor drivers, motors, wheels, axles, etc. I just need to somehow put those parts together in a way that doesn't look like a 3rd grade art project.
@Garcia: ...she doesn't disturb me...
You are a lucky man :-)
Great news -- I just got a call from the local "Collision Center" that my son's truck is fixed and ready to be picked up .... a police car reversed into him in a garage forecourt (the police admitted liability :-)
@Duane: Maybe version 2 of the wireless beenie cap net should add in a Fedora option
The wireless board and motor and propeller are fabricated (well, presented) as a single unit, so you coudl easily take this off the beanie and add it to a fendora
According to David (theCTO at Synapse), one of the trickiest things was working out how to connect the motor to the propeller shaft
@Intseeker: Ubuntu is great and easy!! But I prefer Debian, it is more flexible. I installed Ubuntu on my wife laptop and after configuring it, she doesn't disturb me!! No virus, no problems...
@Duane: Max, Intseeker - Maybe version 2 of the wireless beenie cap net should add in a Fedora option.
I really like that conversation. Thing is, where am I going to get another of those? I bought in Rio from a Peruvian peddler but the hat is hand made in Guatemala!
@tomii: We've been passing it around the house.
I kno wwhat you mean -- my 18-year-old son came back from school about 2 weeks ago with a runny nose and sore throat -- he was OK the next morning, but a couple of days later my wife and I went down with it...
Max, Intseeker - Maybe version 2 of the wireless beenie cap net should add in a Fedora option.
@Duane: Yes, virtualization is very good option. I use it to do the inverse thing: I use a Linux as Host and a Windows XP in a virtual machine.
By the way, it took me a lot of time to realize where the simulation panel were in ISE14!!
Hey, programmers, I love Ubuntu!
Garcia - Thanks. Right now, I have an Ubuntu distribution in a virtual machine on my main PC. I always seem to have one installation of Linux arounf, either in a VM or in an old PC, but I've never really gotten comfortable with it.
@Those drinking: hey, guys, let's drink quietly! There are those of us who are doint Linux configuration now. (grin)
@Duane: don't worry!! Are you used to work with any Linux in a PC?? You can contact me if you need:
garcialasheras<at>asyncart.com
Garcia - I'll give that a shot. It always seems to be the subtlties like that that end up blocking me.
@tomii: "Was almost ready to chat when I got a call from the school that she was sick. Now I'm at home with a sick one and you guys. Maybe I can spread it around via computer virus?"
Stay away of my Windows in the basement! (grin) My Mac won't get sick. (hehe)
@Duane: Maybe the script doesn¡t have execution permission. Just launch the command:
chmod +x <name_of_the_script>
@Max: Hi Intseeker -- good to see you here -- are you wearing your trademark fendora?
Not now. Do you want me too? (hehehe)
@Max: We've been passing it around the house. I ahve been more sick in the last 3 months than probably the entire previous 3 years combined.
Garcia - I've done just a little tiny bit of customization of the settings. The problem I had was getting them written on the SD card. I can do so with about twenty command line commands, but that's not a good solution. I tried putting it into a script, but foe some reason the script doesn't do anything.
@tomii: Sorry to hear that your kid is sick -- hope she gets better soon
@Duane: If you have any problem maybe I can help you. I work with embedded Linux over ARM in an almost daily basis
@Duane: You aren't drinking enough.
I used to worry that drinking was making me fat ... but I've found that after a few drinks i don;t worry as much :-)
Was almost ready to chat when I got a call from the school that she was sick. Now I'm at home with a sick one and you guys. Maybe I can spread it around via computer virus?
Garcia - My biggest fear with the Zedboard isn't the FPGA component - I know I'm a rookie there. It's the Linux.
Hi Intseeker -- good to see you here -- are you wearing your trademark fendora?
@intseeker:
one of my "young 'uns"
@tomii: Hi tomii: What is ''un from school"
Max - You aren't drinking enough. I think that would help with your backlog.
Hi everyone. Entered late after some difficulty switching cyber realms.
Heah I is! Sorry for late - had to get a sick 'un from school
@Duane: Re Adam's stuff -- now you are making me feel guilty -- I have about 4 or 5 of his blogs sitting in the "queue" waiting for me to post them (he sent them BEFORE he went to Korea, and he's back now, so you can see how far behind I am)
Thanks Duane!! By the way, I will start with Xilinx default OS too... then I'll try porting some custom Linux
Max - Once I solved my slave problem, the I2C with the Synapse boards is dreadfully easy.
Garcia - Congratulations to you too!
@Duane: Funnily enough, one o fthe thing swe talked about at Synapse this morning was using an I2C link in the remote controller for my suitcase thingy
Hi Max... It's been snowing for a week again!! But today it's ok (1ºC). I live too far from the beach
@Jezmo: Congratulations!! My first daughter is today seven months old!!
Garcia - It comes with a Linux port. That will most likely be it.
Hi Garcia -- how is the weather in Spain thsi week?
@Duane: Which OS are you goinf to use?
By Jezmo -- tell your wife "Congratulations" from all of us
@Duane: Hi Duane... I've just started to play with my new Zed too!!
I've been following Adam's blogs on getting his Zedboard up and running. After getting through the test bench series, I'm going to start in on my Zed. I really want to be able to use the ARM OS for code and teh FPGA for the fun stuff.
Max - Though I had been having operator error issues with the Synapse board, but I had just messed up my I2C slave code. Once I got that figured out, the Synapse was easy. Next I want to build a stand alone Python program around it.
anyway guys ive got to run,got all my family round at the moment, ill catch up later
@Duane: Nope -- he's a nice young lad -- got a good poker face -- you can't tell if he's excited or board -- but he knows how to get things done -- and it's a simple enough specification -- when the third switch is actuivated the thing explodes...
...no, wait, that's not it, let me go back to my notes... :-)
yes ill remember that one duane, ill get them to stop before they reach 20
Before going down the test bench road, I was having trouble visuallizing how to get signals into the FPGA. It makes sense now, but just very difficult in practice.
Jezmo, as a parent, I make it a rule to never give out good advice, but I do sometimes give advice, welcome or not. That would be to allow yourself to be used as a jungle gym - but make the kid stop jumping on you before they're heavy enough to crack a rib.
often they are much more complex than the design they are testing
testbenches can get very complex duane
Max - Now, that's a good strategy. As long as the young engineer isn't too much of a practical joker.
@Duane: The problem is that i never have any time -- I've still got to pull my papers and slides together -- I've got all of the bits and pieces -- so I was down there to see if one of their young engineers would be prepared to pull it all together as a spare-time activity (I'll pay him fo rhis time, of course)
yeah the old jokes are definatly the best ;-)
yes its my first, we have desided that we dont want to know the sex,it will just like christmas
I'm finding testbenchin FPGAs to be fun - but it's both more and less difficult than I had expected.
@Jezmo: I liked that comment trail that went something like:
Jezmo: If it's a girl then when she's old enough to date I'll be vetting the guy with two bricks
Someone Else: Won't that hurt?
Someone else: Not if you don't catch your fingers between the bricks!
LOL The old jokes are the best ones :-)
Jezmo - is this your first?
Max - Cool. That sounds like a fun one too.
@Duane -- but that's not why I was at Synapse -- I was there for my "Suitcase Prop" that I'm building for use in my Radiation Talk at Design West -- click here to see the way it looks at the moment
Max - the first blog I write about the Synapse wireless will be over on MCC.
@Duane: The Beanie Network is coming along GREAT -- they have 250 hats on order plus all the components -- they've designed a special board -- they shoudl have six prototypes up and running by next week -- and then go into full production
For some reason I havd forgotten about th Buckaroo Banzai quote when I was reading your Quotable Quotes blog.
Max - There are some good quotes on that blog. I love the one you're using now.
well not daddy just yet, in erm..9 months time:-)
I always liked the Yogi Berra one:
"When you come to a fork in the road... take it!"
@Duane: I didn't use to have a quote, but then I posted a blog Quotable Quotes, but don;t quote me and other people commented with some real good ones.
I'm currently using the following at the bottom of my emails:
"It's sometimes difficult to determine if quotes found on the internet are genuine or not."
-- Abraham Lincoln.
Max - How is the beanie net coming along?
If I were to put a quote, it might be: "no matter where you go there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai
Hi Jezmo -- or shoudl we call you "Daddy"?
Hi max, Ive got two new blogs on their way now ive had some more time to do them, and i had a chat with Adam last night so he knows whats going on, apart from that ive got a very full house tonight
@Duane: Actually, I dropped into the Synapse office on the way into work this morning
Max - I still don't have a quote. I'm lame that way
@Duane: Last night, at about 2:00am, I finally got my motor drive system all wired together and controlled wirelessly from my PC via the Synapse Wireless board.
Woo-Hoo!!!
Have you noticed how everyone seems to have a "quote" at the end of their emails these days?
Max - Last night, at about 2:00am, I finally got my motor drive system all wired together and controlled wirelessly from my PC via the Synapse Wireless board.
It's no good Tomii -- we can see you :-)
Our weekly chat will commence at 12:00 p.m. my time (Central USA Time), which is 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, and 6:00 p.m. UTC/GMT (you'll have to work out your local time from these clues -- or you can use this handy-dandy Time Zone Converter).
As always, we will be following our usual practice of leaping from topic to topic with the agility of young, fearless mountain goats, so make sure you're wearing appropriate clothing!
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We consider complementary versus analogous colors and the meaning of terms like shade, tint, and hue. We also introduce the concept of psychological primary colors.
This "retrospective" blog describes how I became involved in testing microprocessors in 1976, and how microprocessors have influenced my professional work for many years...
The appellation "primary colors" refers to a small collection of colors that can be combined to form a range of additional colors, but which "small collection of colors" should we use as our primaries?
Today's FPGAs already integrate a substantial amount of "stuff" (MCU cores, programmable fabric, on-chip memory, etc.), so what's left to integrate and why is this being left for the future?
To celebrate Geek Pride Day, Sylvie Barak has created a mega-cool infographic that depicts how geeks have been building the Internet since 1832.
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