(Untitled)- April 28, 2002 The pbForth website has been updated with a new article describing how to use the pbForth Assembler. The assembler is a text script that you upload to the RCX. The RCX actually assembles source code for itself. Total code space usage is about 4K.http://www.radiouser.com/2002/04/28.html#a59 (Untitled)- April 23, 2002 The new 2.1.2 Version of pbForth has support for background processing and saving your work as an SREC file that you can load agin like regular firmware. This means you no longer have to load the base pbForth firmware and then load all the text scripts on top. You just save your working system as its own firmware! Super feature if you're involved in code-only competition and need to email a firmware file. The pbForth website has also been updated with articles describing how to use...http://www.radiouser.com/2002/04/23.html#a58 (Untitled)- April 20, 2002 via Hack the Planet Looks like we're finally going to get some useful data out of all those car crashes on our roads. Proponents of the black-box technology want to change the way accident data is collected. Today's methods, they say, are primitive and typically rely on hand measurements of skid marks and crumple zones. "Most of the crash data today is essentially junk," Martinez said. "And it's what we use to form our policies and vehicle designs." Of course, the dark side of this for some...http://www.radiouser.com/2002/04/20.html#a57 (Untitled)- April 19, 2002 via BrightHand Almost all electronic gadgets from phones to PDAs now encourage the use of thumbs to enter text. This leads to some interesting contradictions in proverbs: Being "all thumbs" used to mean you were clumsy. But phones, wireless e-mail devices, and all the other hand-held gadgets featuring "thumb boards" are turning thumbs into universal index fingers for a generation of teenagers, young adults and high-tech businesspeople. Of course, doctors are worried about repetitive strain...http://www.radiouser.com/2002/04/19.html#a56 (Untitled)- April 18, 2002 via USS Clueless Being an embedded guy with strong ties to Motorola parts, stories like this give me the willies. What is Mot thinking For a long time, all you had to choose from was Motorola vs Intel in the embedded world. Intel was smart enough to licence their 8051 core to multiple vendors that in turn added their own unique features to the device. They also have the benefit of the Pentium to offset losses in the embedded processor department. It looks like Motorola just forgot to watch...http://www.radiouser.com/2002/04/18.html#a55 |