Donald Bell explains Arduino
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| Donald Bell explains Arduino | |
| Number | 2872 |
| Broadcast Date | OCTOBER 5, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 40:22 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Scott Johnson, Donald Bell |
What is Arduino? Is it real? Is it just Arduino? Donald Bell explains that and more to Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt. Plus a standalone Wacom tablet and a supposedly safe Note 7 burns up on an airplane.
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Top Stories
- Just a follow up before we get started - Yahoo says Reuters report that it was scanning incoming email at the request of the US government is misleading and that "the mail scanning described in the article does not exist on our systems." Twitter, Google, Facebook, Apple and have all explicitly stated they have never received such a request or in Microsoft's case never conducted such scanning. Now here are some more top stories!
- Brian Green was boarding Southwest Airlines flight 944 from Louisville to Baltimore when his newly-replaced Samsung Galaxy Note 7 began smoking. Green told the Verge had powered down the phone as requested by the flight crew and put it in his pocket when a "thick grey-green angry smoke" started coming out of the device. Green dropped it on the floor where it burned through the carpet. All passengers and crew were exited and were uninjured. Green said he had received his replacement phone September 21st at an AT&T store.
- The first phone with Google's Project Tango augmented reality depth sensing cameras, the Lenovo Phab2 Pro will be released in November. The 6.4-inch device will retail for $499 unlocked in the US. CNET notes the phone will not support Daydream VR.
- The Washington Post reports Federal contractor from Booz Allen Hamilton, Harold Thomas Martin III of Maryland was arrested in August and charged with with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials. Investigators found classified information stored on various devices in his home. A source told the Post officials are investigating if Martin was connected to the leak of NSA hacking tools in August. Martin appeared in court August 29 and remains detained. The charges were unsealed Wednesday.
- Amazon introduced Prime reading Wednesday, which gives subscribers to Amazon Prime in the US access to a rotating library of more than a thousand books, comics and magazines. The service is available on iOS and Android as well as Kindle tablets. Amazon will continue to offer the Kindle Lending Library to Prime subscribers. That service limits borrowing to one book a month and can only be accessed on Amazon hardware.
- Roku has introduced the Roku Direct Publisher tool which lets anyone create a Roku channel without having to code. Users must host the videos themselves. Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Cracked have used the tool to make apps. Channels built in the tool cannot charge subscriptions or video on demand fees yet.
- Wacom introduced a standalone tablet that also serves as a pen display called the Mobile Studio Pro. It comes in two models both of which run Windows 10 and can act as an input device for Windows or Mac. The MobileStudio Pro 13 has a 13.3-inch IPS WQHD display that covers 96% of Adobe's RGB. The MobileStudio Pro 16 has a 15.6-inch screen, an NVIDIA Quadro graphics processor and an IPS UHD display that handles 94% of Adobe RGB. Both come with the Pro Pen 2 that is supposed to be 4 times as accurate and pressure sensitive as the original Pro Pen. The MobileStudio Pro 13 starts at $1499 with 64GB up to $2499 for 512GB. The 16 starts at $2399 for 256GB up to $2999 for 512GB. The top end 13 and both 16s come with an Intel RealSense 3D camera. They'll be available at the end of November.
Discussion
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Messages
- I've had Facebook's new Marketplace feature on my iOS app for over a month! I guess I was a beta tester?
I've been annoyed because, it always has a red notification number on it since people are constantly adding new posts. If the notification number would ever go away (it won't) I could potentially see the new feature as the Craigslist killer you thought it might be. - Sent by Meredith
- I've had Facebook's new Marketplace feature on my iOS app for over a month! I guess I was a beta tester?
- I saw NHK's 8K screens during the International Broadcasting Convention this year. Although the 8K screens were cool, most of us regular IBC attendees have seen this for a few years. What was really cool this year was a touch sensitive “sphere screen” from pufferfish. This screen really blew my mind and it’s the first time I’ve really seen a cool way to use a 360 video without getting motion sickness.
Here is a short clip from my iphone of me touching the sphere: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B29fyZ-EGG4wRnhOLWN6ZUpzcDg - Sent by Magnus
- I saw NHK's 8K screens during the International Broadcasting Convention this year. Although the 8K screens were cool, most of us regular IBC attendees have seen this for a few years. What was really cool this year was a touch sensitive “sphere screen” from pufferfish. This screen really blew my mind and it’s the first time I’ve really seen a cool way to use a 360 video without getting motion sickness.
- We work with a variety of clients that are in technical fields and a lot of them do very detailed modeling of everything from geological studies to electronics design. They are always craving higher resolution displays for viewing their models in greater detail. It seems like the 8K might find a home in the technical design fields where that kind of resolution can help you see things in finer detail.
- Sent by Russel
- Brenton chided me for not using a smart watch and saying "Built into my watch is Siri, and Siri works to control my smart home devices. Siri is also built into my phone, TV, iPad, and computers. This difference in approach of placing a single purpose device in a fixed location compared to putting the voice activated assistant into anywhere it fits isn't really putting Amazon in a leading position. Amazon seems to me to be running towards the Microsoft and Apple approach. Even Google is in more products than just the Echo and Dot and few others they've managed."
- Sent by Brenton
- Google only supports one account per device (Amazon supports two).
- Sent by Matt
- I wonder about Google's support lifespan for a Pixel phone now that it's handling the whole phone experience. My wife's iPhone 5 (2012) was updated to iOS 10 a few days ago, and she receives patches regularly. The flip side is that my Nexus 7 (2013) was left out of the Android 7.0 update. That is somewhat forgivable for a $200 tablet, but I think it'll be highly inappropriate for a $650+ phone.
- Sent by Al the Iraqi Doctor
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