Anybody messing with teh new Arduino Yun?

Rob Seastrom rs at seastrom.com
Mon Sep 23 18:49:11 CDT 2013


"Bennett Z. Kobb" <bkobb at ieee.org> writes:

> Rob Seastrom writes:
>
>> you're going to spend as much time dicking around with
>> people's phones trying to get the bloody thing to work with your
>> wireless as you are actually talking about your projects if you go
>> with the "server on a stick" model.
>
> I have provided the wireless content server at scientific conferences,
> professional meetings, tradeshow and performing arts events since 2011.
>
> Users routinely discover the service on their own devices even before
> announcements are made. I have served hundreds of attendees with these
> systems as evidenced by the logs collected.

A couple of decades of attendance at Winterfest (the stated use case)
makes me a bit cynical about your odds for a similar level of success
there.  Mid-single-digit percentages of attendees?  Sure.  Wonder what
percentage of those who find it will track you down and complain that
the Internet access on it is gebroked.

Anyway, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition

-r



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