<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_31113" dir="ltr">Half of infinity is still pretty big... :-)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_31111" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_31112" dir="ltr">I hope that Burr can describe his interest or use case in this vat of vastness to help narrow things down.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429100035064_31089"><span></span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:42 AM, Glen Smith <mrglenasmith@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0391787763"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>"It's vast. One way to make it merely huge is to focus on open source hardware and software.<font color="#888888">" -Pete<br><br></font></div><font color="#888888"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">That makes it <b>Half Vast</b>.</span> <br><br></font></div><font color="#888888">Glen<br></font><div><div><span class="yiv0391787763"></span></div></div></div><div class="yiv0391787763gmail_extra"><br><div class="yiv0391787763gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:39 AM, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pete@soper.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:pete@soper.us">pete@soper.us</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pete@soper.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:pete@soper.us">pete@soper.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv0391787763gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">There are a great many ecosystems. :-)<div>It's vast. One way to make it merely huge is to focus on open source hardware and software. <span class="yiv0391787763HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>-Pete</div></font></span></div><br><div><span class="yiv0391787763">----- Reply message -----<br>From: "Burr Sutter" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:burrsutter@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:burrsutter@gmail.com">burrsutter@gmail.com</a>><br></span><span class="yiv0391787763">To: "Christopher Svec" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:christophersvec@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:christophersvec@yahoo.com">christophersvec@yahoo.com</a>><br>Cc: "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>><br>Subject: [TriEmbed] Learning Curve<br></span><div><div class="yiv0391787763h5">Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2015 9:20 AM</div></div></div></div><div class="yiv0391787763HOEnZb"><div class="yiv0391787763h5"><br><div dir="ltr">I think that is a perfectly fair question...my focus is on learning at this time, trying to understand the overall ecosystem. </div><div class="yiv0391787763gmail_extra"><br><div class="yiv0391787763gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Christopher Svec <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:christophersvec@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:christophersvec@yahoo.com">christophersvec@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv0391787763gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>Yes! I totally agree about the growth of our once-very-niche industry.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">But is that what you're after?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">(I'm a fan of frequently backing up and asking the big picture "why?" questions.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-svec<br></div><div><span></span></div> <br><div><br><br></div><div style="display:block;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:05 AM, Burr Sutter <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:burrsutter@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:burrsutter@gmail.com">burrsutter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> </div></div><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I have followed this path so far:</div><div>1) Arduino</div><div>2) Raspberry Pi</div><div>3) Spark Core</div><div>4) Intel Edison (just using it as a Linux box so far)</div><div>5) TI SensorTag</div><div>and played a bit with the NXP LPC1768 running mbed (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mbed.org/"></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mbed.org/">http://mbed.org/</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org">TriEmbed@triembed.org</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org">http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org</a><br>TriEmbed web site: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://triembed.org/">http://TriEmbed.org</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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