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Antronics Ltd

@antronicsltd.bsky.social

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Developer of embedded microntroller-based systems. Contract/consultant. Specialist in IoT, M2M communications and interfacing. May also contain cats, steam engines, and more.

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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 10h

Is she enjoying the diet?

Gimli was improving on it until The Other Thing happened...

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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 10h

Have you checked with the addressee?

I've had several cases where RM kept saying "we'll let you know when it's delivered" long after the addressee had actually got it!
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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 14h

Would go well in Arkwright's shop...

Ronnie Barker as Arkwright in Open All Hours

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 14h

What if you went to Uni before the days if Student Loans?

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 16h

Details in the thread

#Freelance #SelfEmployed #LatePayment

Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 1d

IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 16h

But these already exist.
The trouble is in actually enforcing them.

www.gov.uk/late-commerc...

Late commercial payments: charging interest and debt recovery

Late commercial payments - interest and debt recovery costs you can charge businesses for late payments

www.gov.uk

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Do cats ask each other such questions?
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone asked me why I talk to my cats because, in their words, “It’s not like your pets understand what you are saying.”

Suffice to say, there comes a time when a friendship has simply run its course.

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. A lot of what's called "intuitive" is not really intuitive at all - it's just familiar.

Which is kind of the opposite of intuitive!
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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Reinventing the Arduino Yun ?
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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, as always with these manufacturer's figures, you probably can't actually use all those IOs and all those ADC channels at the same time!

#Specmanship

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Biggest AVR seems to be 16 ADC Channels & 86 IO;
Biggest STM32 seems to be 42 ADC channels & 107 IO:

Screenshot of Microchip product selector page showing AVRs with up to 16 ADC Channels & 86 IO

Screenshot of ST product selector page showing STM32s with up to 42 ADC channels & 107 IO:

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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

But that's down to the chip - not specific to Arduino.

(there are STM32s with huge pin counts)

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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Playing-with-toys-through-bars-of-cage be like:

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Should there be a question mark there?
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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Another one here: www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/hampshi...

They do, at least, put the "hidden" in quotes, but it's in full view over the canal - not even remotely hidden!
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'Hidden' bridge that helped win both World Wars is a listed building

The Inglis Pyramid Bridge, which spans the Basingstoke Canal in Aldershot has now been listed at Grade II due to its unique military history

www.getsurrey.co.uk

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

and since when was the quantity of a chip order measured in gigawatts ?

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed - Very true.

Similarly for #RaspberryPi: there are many lookalikes - including plenty cheaper and/or higher-spec - but none has the community of RPi.

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

#Qualcomm #Arduino press release:

www.qualcomm.com/news/release...

Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI

www.qualcomm.com

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

No mention of this yet on www.arduino.cc

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Another attraction was not needing an expensive debugger/ICE.

But, again, this now comes included in most chipmaker devboards, and free tools are widely available.

So, perhaps Arduino has had its day ... ?

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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

As you say, one of the early attractions of Arduino was its low cost relative to "regular" development boards.

But that's no longer true: chipmaker boards like the STM32 Nucleos are now cheap and readily available.

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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

So they're reinventing the Arduino Yún ?

docs.arduino.cc/retired/boar...

docs.arduino.cc

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

LOL - the infamous provider of "how not to hold a soldering iron" images!

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Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 1d

Yachts in marina (expensive boat harbour, not old Morris)

Brighton Marina - many yachts moored under blue skies with fluffy clouds

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · 2d

"a 'multi-year, multi-generation' partnership with OpenAI that will see the ChatGPT maker deploy 6 gigawatts of Instinct GPUs."

Since when was quantity of chips measured in gigawatts?

What does that even mean?

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