Today was a weird day...

"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
06/08/2019 at 19:25 • Filed to: None

I don’t always pretend to be a mad scientist engineer , but when I do I go full mad scientist engineer .

DISCUSSION (8)

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
06/08/2019 at 19:51

This is me at work basically . Except full sugar Monster.

Spanfeller is a twat > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
06/08/2019 at 20:33

Wrong. Mad engineers are ones with faulty coaxial cables

Future Heap Owner > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
06/08/2019 at 22:02

I like to be the pedantic asshole who when people say “because science” points out that they usually mean engineering.

Whatcha working on? Is it a secret?

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Future Heap Owner
06/08/2019 at 22:48

Ha! I might need to start doing that.

Yes, sadly it is a secret. I volunteer for an organization to make a thing every year for a conference large party , but we don’t share any details until the day the thing is released. No one actually cares that we keep it a secret, but... here we are haha.

jminer > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
06/08/2019 at 22:55

Fun - I’ve been tinkering with Arduino and SBCs lately. It’s been an awesome time.

I love that big ass breadboard btw. Where’d you get that?

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > jminer
06/08/2019 at 23:34

I’ve played with a few of the SBCs and honestly have been super enamored with the BeagleBone of late. I’ve found it a lot easier to dive into and play around with than the Raspberry Pi, despite having less overall support. Certainly a lot to complain about (higher price, slower processor, weird HDMI port, one USB port, etc) but overall it is a solid piece of hardware. It comes pre- installed with Cloud 9 IDE which makes running code a breeze and you can power it and communicate over the micro usb port, or provide external power. Also it has on-board flash, so you don’t have to rely on a uSD card for everything.

I honestly don’t know where I got the breadboard haha. I did my undergrad and graduate degrees in electrical engineering so these sorts of things just accumulated over the years . Quick search for “jamco breadboard” on amazon returns a couple that look similar.

jminer > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
06/09/2019 at 14:58

EMMC is awesome. I’ll admit I love the Odroid units for this. They have a ton of power, an expansion port for emmc (so you can either swap them out or change capacity) and are reasonably priced. If you need something with serious power, look at the odroid XU4 it has a 8 core arm chip, 2GB ram, gigabit ethernet and flash memory support.

I don’t mess with the Pi’s much for I/O, they mostly spend time as compute units in my house. I’ve got a couple in a docker swarm, one to run OctoPi on my 3d Printer, one as a PiHole Ad blocker and a couple other for random specific causes. Since raspian is a Ubuntu fork you can do almost anything with them that’s been ported to ARM. Arduino’s do most of my I/O although I have been tinkering with Pi Zero chips recently though.

My favorite new board is the Jetson Nano, it’s an Nvidia unit with an actual GPU, and a ton of power. It’s got I/O and great embedded tools, third party stuff isn’t awesome on it yet and it’s a little expensive ($100) but it’s a dev board like nobody else makes.

MM54 > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
06/09/2019 at 15:34

I have the same board from getting my BSEE