<div dir="ltr">Glen,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>The mood might best be described as gleeful.</div><div><br></div><div>Rob.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Glen Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrglenasmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">mrglenasmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Half Vast, say it out loud, don't worry about careful diction. Preferably in a meeting.<br><br></div>"My knowledge on this subject is half vast."<br><br></div>Glen<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Christopher Svec <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christophersvec@yahoo.com" target="_blank">christophersvec@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_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 dir="ltr">Half of infinity is still pretty big... :-)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div 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><div class="h5"><div><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 dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:42 AM, Glen Smith <<a href="mailto:mrglenasmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">mrglenasmith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div><div><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></span></div></div></div><div><br><div>On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:39 AM, <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:pete@soper.us" target="_blank">pete@soper.us</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:pete@soper.us" target="_blank">pete@soper.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote 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><font color="#888888"><div>-Pete</div></font></span></div><br><div><span>----- Reply message -----<br>From: "Burr Sutter" <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:burrsutter@gmail.com" target="_blank">burrsutter@gmail.com</a>><br></span><span>To: "Christopher Svec" <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:christophersvec@yahoo.com" target="_blank">christophersvec@yahoo.com</a>><br>Cc: "<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>><br>Subject: [TriEmbed] Learning Curve<br></span><div><div>Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2015 9:20 AM</div></div></div></div><div><div><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><br><div>On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Christopher Svec <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:christophersvec@yahoo.com" target="_blank">christophersvec@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote 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" href="mailto:burrsutter@gmail.com" target="_blank">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" href="http://mbed.org/" target="_blank"></a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://mbed.org/" target="_blank">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" href="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org" target="_blank">TriEmbed@triembed.org</a><br><a rel="nofollow" href="http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org" target="_blank">http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org</a><br>TriEmbed web site: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://triembed.org/" target="_blank">http://TriEmbed.org</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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