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Tim Michals commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post A peek into the future of ardupilot
"Freescale is incorporating ARM A5 Cortex and ARM M4 Cortex in one chip to help address some of the issues of general OS and realtime integration.  …"
Feb 1, 2014
Tim Michals commented on Tim Michals's blog post Arduino/AutoPilot based on UB32
"I ported some of the PIC32 libraries and got most of the code running.  But, Microchip said I cannot distribute any of the code due to license issues.  So, I was going to redo this work, but said the heck with it.  I'm not please with Microchip at…"
Dec 12, 2011
Tim Michals commented on geir's blog post 454 mhz chumbyhackerboard
"Beagleboard vs gumstix
1. Price, the mx board is $149
2. The wireless module supports soft AP, gumstix does not"
Mar 5, 2011
Tim Michals commented on geir's blog post 454 mhz chumbyhackerboard
"I agree trying to keep the design moulder... here is another small board http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Toradex-Xiilun-PC-and-Topaz...
One thing the E6xx has is HW encoders for video and two threading cores.  I asked about power and there…"
Mar 5, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post One ESC is not like the others. Why?
"Also, I have to do the same thing , I will not be using a transmitter either... Trying to use a color nook for the controller..."
Mar 4, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post One ESC is not like the others. Why?
"I see the pandaboard next to the quad... I was thinking of going that direction for 802.11g, but I see that it will not fit at all.  The beageboard is going to get a TiW (WLink module) sometime at the end of the month... 
Are you going to use the…"
Mar 4, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Quadcopter flight with the FCWii board and the Wii Motion Plus and Nunchuk MEMS sensors.
"Is the configuration software open source? or available?"
Feb 27, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post Help wanted for top secret project
Jan 5, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post Help wanted for top secret project
"AJAX is is a way for the web browser to open a socket and send tcp/HTTP/XML packets. XML can be a simple binary-64 encoded stream, making it easier to parse.
Maybe just use a netduino plus, 512K of Flash, 127K of RAM, add a shield of the microchip…"
Jan 5, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post Help wanted for top secret project
"Ok, yeah, this is one of my many todo projects, get a USB dongle with 1500mw connect it to a host arm cortex LPC1768 or http://code.google.com/p/micropendous/ something like that supports host and configure for adhoc mode. And port the CDC Ethernet…"
Jan 4, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post Help wanted for top secret project
"There is a lot of code for a soft AP, it must send out beacons, etc, Not saying it cannot do it, but would be nice to get verification. Also, how many nodes it can support, it must atleast do 2."
Jan 4, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post Help wanted for top secret project
"Does this module support AP mode? Or just Client?"
Jan 4, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post Help wanted for top secret project
"Also, have done a simple AJAX type of approach for a web page, this way, the data on the page changes but the entire page does not refresh.  Did this for a simple CLI (command line interface)"
Jan 3, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post Help wanted for top secret project
"using a simple button and posting the form and decoding is not that difficult, lwip has examples, did this for an ARM7 project. 
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Jan 3, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post Help wanted for top secret project
"Is there a simple WFI module, SPI, serial, or Ethernet that can be an access Point?"
Jan 3, 2011
Tim Michals commented on Jordi Muñoz's blog post Help wanted for top secret project
"Also, yes adhoc mode can be used, but only at 10mbps.  There is a new standard out for peer Wifi http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/10/wi-fi-direct-protocol-...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct
 
The wlink 6.0 and wlink 7.0 should be…"
Jan 3, 2011
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