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  • Date Created: 11 Nov 2015 1:28 PM Date Created
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  • johnbeetem
    johnbeetem over 10 years ago +9
    As usual, I voted for FPGAs. This is not because of any FPGA family that was released this year, but rather because 2015 brought us the first open-source FPGA tools: Project IceStorm: fully open-source…
  • michaelwylie
    michaelwylie over 10 years ago +4
    I agree with John on this one. It's the year of the FPGA. Cost is down, functionality is up. I just got an Altera board for 70 dollars that can practically do anything.
  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem +4
    Maybe these are something we could be looking at for RoadTests, is you guys would be interested in that?
  • Problemchild
    Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    Yeah the proliferation of boards has really come to a point this year, high spec, low price, features the lot!

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  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to scitechindian

    Sure is. I genuinely wonder how long it'll be before we buy something innocuous -- like a toaster or a kettle or something -- get it home and out of the box and then say, "What?! It doesn't even have Wi-Fi! What is this, the Dark Ages?"  image

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  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to fvan

    Excitement. Adventure. A hacker seeks not these things.

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  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    Maybe these are something we could be looking at for RoadTests, is you guys would be interested in that?

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  • fvan
    fvan over 10 years ago in reply to kas.lewis

    "Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda image

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  • kas.lewis
    kas.lewis over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    Maybe 2016 will be the year I finally get into FPGAs, here's hoping

     

    Kas

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  • heshamsalah
    heshamsalah over 10 years ago

    wearable technology is emerging and used in our daily life now, i see it will get more involved in our daily life.

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  • johnbeetem
    johnbeetem over 10 years ago in reply to fustini

    Drew Fustini wrote:

     

    "silicon handcuffs"

    Good phrase!

    I borrowed it from Richard M. Stallman.  I thought it was RMS verbatim, but he actually uses the term "digital handcuffs".  When checking the source, I found out that Googling "silicon handcuffs" produces all sorts of unexpected hits image

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  • fustini
    fustini over 10 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    "silicon handcuffs"

    Good phrase!

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  • scitechindian
    scitechindian over 10 years ago

    Iot is super cool !

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