These look great. I wish they had existed way back when I did embedded work every day. What was the process like to create them? Did you design them from scratch, get them built to spec, something in between?
The switchable host is interesting to me. What do people use that for?
I’m curious, does the addition of wireless enable anything that wouldn’t be possible on RS485? Naively to me, it seems like it would add failure modes and hurt worst case performance, but I assume it’s a tradeoff to get a bandwidth or average latency improvement.
It reads to me like encryption is handled one layer below this by NFS. I would naively assume this should be set up with external changes disallowed since it is capturing and replaying fs events.
I would love to see a replacement for syncthing though. Something with less config knobs, that 'just works' and handles conflicts more intelligently.
I wonder if they’d be willing to sell it to the right group of folks. I’d love to have a community owned read it later service. Otherwise, we’re all on a never ending treadmill from one service to the next.
Same here. I get a massive amount of value out of writing things down at home and at work. I get comparably little value out of linking things together — beyond direct references at least. I think this may be a difference in how different people think and recall information.
This is unfortunately not emphasized with many breakout boards. It pays off to skim errata sections at the start of a project. All hardware has errata, and it ranges from incorrect details and minor malfunctions all the way through to broken peripherals and all manner of critical malfunctions.
There are industrial knitting machines, but they’re orders of magnitude more expensive, heavier, and tied to closed software ecosystems. They’re extremely capable, but they’re also far outside the hobbyist realm. The only real evolution on these old hobbyist machines is the Kniterate at $16k and 600lbs.
Fewer people will walk when infrastructure prioritizes drivers and makes it uncomfortable and unsafe to walk. This isn’t the only option.
Cars being built for pedestrian safety is one piece of that picture. As you note, impact safety falls into this category and provides limited benefits for collisions at speed. There’s a lot more to that story though, as we can see in societies that value pedestrian lives. Automatic braking and avoidance, driver attention monitoring, and speed limiters are all options. Add in safe infrastructure, safety enforcement, etc.
There’s a broad range of tools available to reduce pedestrian deaths. None are perfect, none apply universally, but we should consider all of them.
The switchable host is interesting to me. What do people use that for?