[TriEmbed] Learning Curve

Glen Smith mrglenasmith at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 08:55:00 CDT 2015


Half Vast, say it out loud, don't worry about careful diction. Preferably
in a meeting.

"My knowledge on this subject is half vast."

Glen

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Christopher Svec <christophersvec at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Half of infinity is still pretty big... :-)
>
> I hope that Burr can describe his interest or use case in this vat of
> vastness to help narrow things down.
>
>
>
>   On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:42 AM, Glen Smith <mrglenasmith at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> "It's vast. One way to make it merely huge is to focus on open source
> hardware and software." -Pete
>
> That makes it *Half Vast*.
>
> Glen
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:39 AM, pete at soper.us <pete at soper.us> wrote:
>
> There are a great many ecosystems. :-)
> It's vast. One way to make it merely huge is to focus on open source
> hardware and software.
> -Pete
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Burr Sutter" <burrsutter at gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Svec" <christophersvec at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "triembed at triembed.org" <triembed at triembed.org>
> Subject: [TriEmbed] Learning Curve
> Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2015 9:20 AM
>
> I think that is a perfectly fair question...my focus is on learning at
> this time, trying to understand the overall ecosystem.
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Christopher Svec <
> christophersvec at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Yes! I totally agree about the growth of our once-very-niche industry.
>
> Another question to consider is "what are you trying to do or accomplish
> as an end-goal?", in addition to the "where to invest time & energy to
> learn" question.
>
> You can spend the rest of your life testing & learning each new platform
> or dev board or widget that comes out - and there's nothing wrong with that
> at all! Especially if pure learning is your goal.
>
> But is that what you're after?
>
> (I'm a fan of frequently backing up and asking the big picture "why?"
> questions.)
>
> -svec
>
>
>
>   On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:05 AM, Burr Sutter <burrsutter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> The world of embedded microcontrollers has seen some dramatic growth (from
> my perspective) and it is tough to figure out where to invest my learning
> time & energy.
>
> I have followed this path so far:
> 1) Arduino
> 2) Raspberry Pi
> 3) Spark Core
> 4) Intel Edison (just using it as a Linux box so far)
> 5) TI SensorTag
> and played a bit with the NXP LPC1768 running mbed ( <http://mbed.org/>
> http://mbed.org/)
>
> Mostly I have been simply playing with the various "developer kits" where
> my mission is on detection and connection - trying to understand what can
> be sensed and how to get the data back to the cloud.
>
> How do you all feel about mbed? Is that worthy of expending
> dozens/hundreds of hours of learning time? And if so, which of the various
> ARM/mbed-based hardware vendors are interesting to you?
>
>
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