[TriEmbed] Learning Curve

[Robert Mackie]

Glen,

You have made my day! I've shared that with the other engineers on my
floor. We all feel much better equipped to meet the demands of our careers,
and the mood over all has improved in ways I can hardly describe.  I'm just
waiting for someone to come and ask a software engineer about hardware or
vice-a-versa.

The mood might best be described as gleeful.

Rob.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Glen Smith <mrglenasmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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