ElectricImp.com

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Mike  -

I really like your statement "however, if adequately hackable, it might 
be repurposed".  Well put. ;-)

It appears to me that this new "Imp" gadget, if fully Researched, could 
then indeed be re-Developed into something very controllable and useful 
in the Ham Radio domain - Good R & D - Just the kind of thing that AMRAD 
has such a great reputation of being able to do. 8-)

Thanks Mike, ... that's a great observation. :-)

     Terry McCarty
    3t3 at comcast.net
        wa5nti



Mike O'Dell wrote:

> The skepticism around the plans for this particular bit of digital 
> flotsam
> is well-deserved.
>
> however, if adequately hackable, it might be repurposed for other 
> purposes.
>
> in any event, the existence of such a widget is interesting. I wonder 
> if it's the
> same hardware being used for the "Eye-Fi" widget, which plugs into 
> your camera
> and spews bits to your laptoy over the wifi so you don't have to swap 
> cards.
> somebody is making those, and i have a good guess as to whose wifi part
> is inside - some of the Atheros parts have a twin-core ARM that runs an
> IP stack and has lots of room left over.
>
> but it's also a heads-up of what people might be trying to slip into
> your toaster and such.
>
> I believe the UK just passed legislation making it a requirement that
> customers can reject the installation of "Advanced Metering" precisely
> because they don't want information about what they own and how
> they use it being available without their approval.  Great idea -
> approximately zero probability something like that could get enacted 
> here.
>
>     -mo
>
>
> On 1/20/13 12:07 PM, Richard Spargur wrote:
>
>> Not trusting everyone completely, I have a lot of problem with my 
>> house or
>> parts of my house or stuff in my house or property constantly, and
>> uncontrollably talking to someone (not necessarily the object it was
>> intended to talk to) recovering information.
>>
>> Companies like Proctor & Gamble have patents for tracking projects 
>> from when
>> you pick them up from the store shelf to when they enter a landfill
>> including while they are in your house.  It is their stated desire to do
>> just that as well as other companies.
>>
>> What will this company in California be collecting today.  What about
>> tomorrow.
>>
>> Then I could just be paranoid, I will put my tin foil back around my 
>> head
>> and sit in the corner :-)
>>
>> Richard
>>  
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tacos-bounces+k3ui=comcast.net at amrad.org
>> [mailto:tacos-bounces+k3ui=comcast.net at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Robert E.
>> Seastrom
>> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:34 AM
>> To: wb4jfi at knology.net
>> Cc: Mike O'Dell; tacos at amrad.org
>> Subject: Re: ElectricImp.com
>>
>>
>> <wb4jfi at knology.net> writes:
>>
>>> Sounds kind of squirrelly to me (the language it purports to use is
>>> yet another variant of C, called squirrel).  If the language is
>>> "C-like", why not just use C?  These people are getting too cute for
>>> their own good.
>>
>> To be fair, this is exactly how Wiring (the programming language for the
>> Arduino) is described, though describing it as "C++ with so many 
>> convenient
>> libraries tossed on top as to make it unrecognizable" is prehaps more
>> honest.
>>
>>> I was going to play with one, but the full-time Internet access
>>> requirement made it road-kill.  Insert your own "nuts" joke here, I'm
>>> from California, so I get a free pass.
>>
>> 100% agreement.  Things must work properly and in a not-unexpected 
>> fashion
>> when connected to the Internet and disconnected from the Internet...  
>> but
>> also make appropriate decisions when the Internet connectivity is dodgy
>> (cursory test returns OK but attempting to use yields crummy 
>> performance for
>> whatever reason).
>>
>> Somehow, the last case never gets addressed well.
>>
>> -r
>>
>>
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