“”The 5 cent microcontroller! Got myself 100 Padauk PMS154C, one time programmable microcontroller. 2K program memory, 128 bytes of RAM, 6 timers (some 8 & 11 bit pwm capable), hardware comparator, deep sleep and interrupts capable. Alongside the proprietary programmer too (about 100$). Perfect to flash a few leds on toys, or similar simple cheap
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He got almost all of it right. But at that time no one knew how portable they would become. No one knew how many more things they would be and do – telephone, camera, audio and video recorders, run hundreds of applications such as the browsers that access the Worldwide Web. Email, messaging, clock, calendar
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Sam the Electric Viking tells us in this 9 min. YouTube video. Tony Seba (RethinkX) predicted EV battery prices would fall 50% by 2027. It now looks like it may happen this year. Last year they reduced prices by 30%. This is important because 35 to 40% of the cost of the EV is the
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This seems to be about FSD – full self driving. Electric Viking YouTube video 7 mins long. Sam Evans says that Tesla has replaced 300,000 lines of C++ code with a neural network. It’s version 12.1.2. There are a lot of rave reviews by users. Much better than before. If the reports are true, it
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This is going to be greatly reducing the need for herbicides – weed killers, which are poisonous, not good for our food. Making for a better, greener world. ▶️ Watch this reelhttps://www.facebook.com/reel/3353248441633569?mibextid=zAoTV8&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
These autonomous laser devices can be working in the fields around the clock. They could severely reduce the need for herbicides (weed killer chemicals), and insecticides which are also harmful to good insects and other animals and pollute the environment. It’s highly unlikely that a weed will become resistant to a Laser! They can be
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I finally found a bit of history about Gary Lorenz. He and I were high school friends. In 1972 he and John Darjany founded a company, Amsec, to make a “campus card system” for California Polytechnic University, Pomona. In 1974, Amsec was purchased by R.D. Products. A brief history of the campus card industry This
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“”Tesla is going to integrate Elon Musk’s newly launched Grok AI assistant in its electric vehicles, according to the CEO.”” We could surmise that Tesla would have to keep up with the Alexas and Siris, and come out with their own version of a voice response system. This will help remove the distraction of fiddling
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Here is a wealth of information about much of the electronics that is used by government entities especially the military. You can find out what the system is for data processing hardware. This used to be called JAN – Joint Army Navy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Electronics_Type_Designation_System
