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burgerone commented on How I code with AI on a budget/free   wuu73.org/blog/aiguide1.h... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
burgerone · 19 days ago
Why are people still drawn to using pointless AI assistants for everything? What time do we save by making the code quality worse overall?
burgerone commented on Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/johneth
beck5 · a month ago
So 16 year olds are wise enough to vote, but not fully leave education, buy alcohol, drive a car, join the army and get married without your parents consent, the lists goes on.
burgerone · a month ago
Social media will have a greater effect on votes than ever before
burgerone commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
burgerone · 3 months ago
Far less spectacular or impressive than other projects I've seen here bu I wrote a quite small blogging engine
burgerone commented on Browsercraft: Java Minecraft in the browser   browsercraft.cheerpj.com/... · Posted by u/John7878781
burgerone · 5 months ago
There's a similar but "illegal" other client called eaglercraft. It bumps this up a notch with a much more "recent" version of MC, by compiling java to javascript
burgerone commented on Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds   szymanowiczs.github.io/bo... · Posted by u/jasondavies
burgerone · 5 months ago
What's the use case for putting AI into everything? Pretty much every AI product so far has been and still is subject to hallucinations and inaccuracies and on top of that it's hugely computing intensive. Sure, it's the best we have right now and it allows us to do things that were previously next to impossible with manual programming work, but it's far from being something that's actually viable. And what would be the use case for turning a picture into an approximated 3d mesh that is only really complete from one angle? LIDAR does a stunningly accurate job at that already, reproducibly (although granted that this cannot retroactively be applied to existing photos).
burgerone commented on Xcode Constantly Phones Home   lapcatsoftware.com/articl... · Posted by u/lladnar
randomNumber7 · 6 months ago
When you name a variable "apple" it will directly inform apple and you get a warning for violating their brand.
burgerone · 6 months ago
Is that sarcasm? I wouldn't put it past them to do that.

If it isn't, could you provide a source?

burgerone commented on Mascotbot: Real-Time, Engaging Avatar SDK for Al Agents   mascot.bot/... · Posted by u/vyrotek
burgerone · 6 months ago
What exactly is the use case here? I have yet to see a website replace their text chat with an avatar
burgerone commented on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?   civileats.com/2025/02/18/... · Posted by u/greenie_beans
burgerone · 6 months ago
> dominant egg producers . . . have leveraged the crisis to raise prices, amass record profits, and consolidate market power

Call me ignorsnt, but I'm surprised to see fewer cases of this kind of exploitative capitalism here in the EU. The only similar case that cones to mind is the gas and diesel price hike. Am I missing something or are Americans just more accepting of agressive capitalism like this? Something similar is Healthcare. Insulin for example is dirt cheap to produce but costs the buyer hundreds (iirc) of dollars.

burgerone commented on Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]   rtestardi.github.io/usbte... · Posted by u/burgerone
rtestardi · 6 months ago
Hi all, new here.

One post below might be a bit misleading -- it's just 18 Msps, not 100 -- so think of it as good for signals up to 1 MHz or so with decent fidelity... And it uses a PIC32, not STM32. It is 12 bit ADC, but the noise floor makes it more like 10 or 11. A cool thing is it also does digital capture and waveform generation at the same time, but clearly it's all pretty simple...

My goal was to be able to get these in a classroom at every seat, where there's already a computer or tablet or chromebook, and have it "just work"... The thing I like the best by far, though, is javascript access -- you only need a webpage for the GUI -- no software install or app store or anything!

To go deeper for the classroom experiments, you can use a different "deep dive" webpage with a command-line UI and log in interactively and take control of all the pins programmatically in BASIC, and even configure the board to autorun a BASIC program on power-up... You can make a "simon" game with 4 switches, 4 LEDs, a buzzer, and about 100 lines of code... Or with a thermocouple and an op-amp and a solid-state relay, you can make a cool toaster oven temperature controller for reflow soldering -- which is how I built all the prototypes... The nice thing is the javascript access on the host comes for free still, and so BASIC can talk directly to the host computer (e.g., running python or powershell)! Examples are here: https://rtestardi.github.io/pages/

I have also had fun with automotive applications for Flea-Scope -- it is so easy to just bring out a phone or tablet and measure a crankshaft sensor -- and without it you're just guessing and replacing components from some diagnostics flowchart...

As for licensing, it is all open source, and anyone can rebuild it (and even sell it). There is a patent on the internal BASIC, but there is also a perpetual license to the software builds I have made and tested and released -- conceivably you could build the scope without BASIC at all -- it is unneeded except when you use the board in "deep dive" mode for BASIC programming.

If there is interest, I have toyed with the idea of making a Mosquito-Scope, with 2 channels and selectable input amplification (for sub-millivolt signals) based on the still-brand-new dsPIC33A, which is actually cheaper and faster than the PIC32MK.

-- Rich

burgerone · 6 months ago
I think the low cost of the flea-scope justifies sticking to just one analog input per device, even with a successor, provided that the interface gets a little bit of an upgrade to be able to handle multiple scopes at once.

This would retain the small form factor and would keep the design free from compromises.

burgerone commented on Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More [pdf]   rtestardi.github.io/usbte... · Posted by u/burgerone
teleforce · 6 months ago
For the price this small thing is really awesome.

I think the posted title need to be improved and updated to include function or waveform generator instead of just More.

Perhaps because of that most of the comments here just focusing in the oscilloscope part.

As any who has dabbled with electronics know your typical workbench is normally consist of oscilloscope, logic analyzer, waveform generator, digital multi-meter and power supply normally 12V DC.

It seems to me this little $18 hybrid signals scope/generator can do almost all of these functions, and since they are integrated on the same device you don't need to synchronize them which is a big plus.

For old school HP/Agilent/Keysight electronics workbench discrete solutions can easily cost tens of thousands dollars, no kidding.

The modern version of this is the Digilent Discovery Pro 3000/4000/5000 series with price tags of several thousands dollars. They are described as the All-In-One High-Speed Mixed Signal Oscilloscope, Function Generator, Power Supply, and DMM. The cheaper version of this Digilent Discovery 1/2/3 series that cost around $400. But the latter is quite bandwidth and resources limited thus more comparable with the Flea-Scope [1].

[1] Digilent Analog Discovery 3 vs. Digilent Pro ADP2230 [video]:

https://youtu.be/yr9SGxiBAnI

burgerone · 6 months ago
I'm at the character limit, so I'll take suggestions for a new title!

There's a lot of unique, interesting and useful features this offers, all of which are deserving of a spot in the title...

Edit: Seems like I have lost the ability to change the post title. Unfortunate

u/burgerone

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