They promised Google CEO Eric Schmidt one onstage because he's on the board of Apple. Yahoo CEO Jerry Schmidt said "I know I'm not on the board, but can I have one, too?" (yeah, he's not going to have any problem...)
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I wish it wasn't tied in to Cingular (which I thought was about to die anyway?) but still, WANT.
Anybody ever do any microcontroller programming? I just bought one of these: [link]
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I also bought a sonar thingie and some servos - I'm gonna build a Sonic Death Ray. OK, not really. A sonar camera. It will pan the sonar (an ultrasonic range finder - [link] ) up and down, left and right, and build a 3-D image of whatever's in front of it.
I wish it wasn't tied in to Cingular (which I thought was about to die anyway?)
really? i hadn't heard about this. i'm actually pretty happy with my Cingular service. i've pretty much tried them all at this point.
gonna build a Sonic Death Ray. OK, not really. A sonar camera. It will pan the sonar (an ultrasonic range finder - [link] ) up and down, left and right, and build a 3-D image of whatever's in front of it.
Seriously, tommyrot? That's so cool.
Seriously, tommyrot? That's so cool.
Yeah, it's pretty much just hooking together off-the-shelf components (even the two servos with tilt and pan mechanism came as a kit from a robotics company). The hardest part will be programming the microcontroller (and also programming my laptop to communicate with the microcontroller via USB) but for me that'll be the fun part.
I wish it wasn't tied in to Cingular (which I thought was about to die anyway?)
Cingular is owned by AT&T, right? So I doubt it's going to die. At worst, it would be absorbed by AT&T.
I thought Cingular bought out AT&T.
I'm saving my pennies now. Maybe when my contract is up in a year, they'll be ready to cut deals on upgraded phones.