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RE: Pet Microchip Company Shuts Down, Cats and Dogs Lost or Finally Free?

kmikemoo — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:35:27 GMT

This is a sad reality of some of these services. Either competition or technology dilutes their revenue to where they can no longer sustain the database - and they fold.
"Free for life" isn't as cool as it sounds when you consider that it's the life of company profits that determines how long you get the service - not how long you breathe.

RE: Walmart Announces New Tech Upgrades - Worth It?

DAB — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:28:50 GMT

Nice idea.

RE: Qualcomm Acquires Arduino

DAB — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:34:59 GMT

FYI, Arduino will be fine.

Qualcomm is setting them up as separate division, so at least for a while, they will still support the maker community as they did in the past.

As a shareholder I got a note on the deal and Qualcomm plans to exploit the Arduino capabilities in automotive market, which should be very good for Arduino users in the future.

So do not panic, there should be very good synergies from the deal which should benefit the maker community.

RE: Qualcomm Acquires Arduino

Workshopshed — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:45:59 GMT

Back in 2016, I completed a challenge using AI on a Qualcomm based Linux board using a camera to do image recognition with an attached microcontroller to interface to servos and LEDs. That should give you an idea of what you could make with a Uno Q

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RE: Qualcomm Acquires Arduino

embeddedguy — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:40:32 GMT

RIP Arduino [emoticon:6d505171faa4497c85c5ca27290c555d]

RE: The Fashion Business: Are Louis Vuitton’s flexible screen handbags the future of fashion?

phoenixcomm — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:24:37 GMT

[mention:b85bafb1d1a14cd0b49feeaee407e32d:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] Ok, a long time ago in another life I modeled in NYC and LA, I despise some "fashions" like ripped jean (are they too freaking cheap to go to the seamstress? like visibly showing your undergarments? Or like putting their name on my ass! I personally hate all of LV's CRAP!, as I prefer nice leather COACH bag. I don't like nudity, I like classic simple stuff that has been around for well a long time! When I flew to the coast I was always dressed, never in jeans. Even to the extent when living in the City even going to the dinner on 5th, I never when with jeans! Times have changed, Now noise like rap is considered singing? Elvis (he was the self proclaimed King, but he never wrote a song, could not act, and was only a so-so singer. The real King of Rock&Roll was Chuck Berry!) started the crap with the hips, and now thats all I see is sex on stage substituting for great voice, which they don't have.

Now I live in North Fort Worth, Near Alliance Airport. Where cowboy boots are in. I live in my medical scrubs, and tee shirts, no jewelry or makeup! I still listen to my Doo Wop, Sinatra, Streisand, Beach Boys, Some Opera (not much) and Classical Music. Oh well One more thing I have out of that line of work since 1980 and I dont want to look back. Now I live in my own little world, I go out to rehab in Dallas, and still into surplus, code, building stuff, and of course cooking as be fore I move to NYC I had a deli/dinner a few blocks from the board walk in Asbury Park. I despise pretense these days. I take each day as is comes as this Monday I start a new trip around the Sun. ~~ So enjoy life while you can, Cris.

RE: Nuclear Energy Startup Constructing New Nuclear Plants to Power Data Centers

DAB — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 18:45:10 GMT

I would like to see the excess heat from these data farms used to heat people's houses.

RE: PsiQuantum to Build a Quantum Computing Campus in Chicago

bidrohini — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:55:25 GMT

175,000 quantum-specific and quantum-related jobs! Sounds like a great opportunity.

RE: A Review of the Companies to Receive Funds as Part of the Chips and Science Acts

DAB — Sun, 05 May 2024 19:50:32 GMT

To be fair, the Globalists in the government forced companies to move their chip production overseas in the 1990's and early 2000's.

So we are just undoing the damage done by those idiots who wanted everyone to be interdependent upon foreign suppliers.

RE: Analyst Says Micron Dominates the HBM Market

DAB — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 19:04:36 GMT

It pays to specialize and listen to customer needs.

RE: Researchers Engineer a New Titanium Metamaterial – and It is Beyond Impressive

DAB — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:49:55 GMT

I find these metal structures very interesting, there are a lot of applications for them, but they were impossible to machine.

With the laser sintering, we should see an evolution of useful components.

RE: Jensen Huang Believes AI Can Program and Kids Shouldn't Learn It

kmikemoo — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 03:08:35 GMT

I take all this with a grain of salt. "MODBUS is dead." "Desktop PC's are dead." When I got into Amateur Radio a few years ago, the thing I was interested in - email over radio - "was dead".

What I've seen is that NONE of these is dead. The folks promoting their technology want you to believe that it is the only choice, but the reality is that it doesn't deliver what you hope it will - not yet. Sometimes, not ever. And the old stuff... still serves the purpose that it did in the past.

AI is a paving block on the path. It is not the destination.

RE: Jensen Huang Believes AI Can Program and Kids Shouldn't Learn It

DAB — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 19:36:21 GMT

If such a thing comes to pass, I see nothing good coming from it.

RE: Jensen Huang Believes AI Can Program and Kids Shouldn't Learn It

beacon_dave — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:11:07 GMT

I guess you could flip the problem on its head. If you take the 'Library of Babel' approach, then every program that has ever been written, or that is yet to be written effectively already exists in the 'library'. You just have to find the right 'page, chapter, shelf, bookcase, room' where the correct permutation of sequence of bytes is for the user requirement. As AI is pretty good at the brute force statistical approach, then its just a matter of time for it to match the required sequence of bytes with the user's specification.

RE: Jensen Huang Believes AI Can Program and Kids Shouldn't Learn It

Catwell — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 08:13:09 GMT

I've seen AI step in and crush so many jobs already. So, it's disruptive for sure.

I tried using AI to generate some code for an arduino. It didn't work for me.

I wanted an Arduino mega to control a dozen or so solenoids. Cascading them, random actuation, etc - and it just wouldn't compile and work.

So, until something simple like that is addressed, IDK if Jensen Huang is right here. It's one thing to have AI write a subpar story, paper or draw some pictures, but controlling a whole system like an arduino with common spoken language might be some time yet.