For a month we’ve been struggling with our 24hr cable internet going out late at night, 1:30AM to 3AM. It would not come back online until after my wife has...
Do you have a UPS that you could plug the cable box into ? If not get a cheap one, test it on the cable box, if that helps then your good to go. If not hook...
Well, maybe I don't care about FireWire cameras for the moment. I just ordered one of these: http://www.electronics123.com/s.nl?sc=14&category=&search=ov9620 ...
... That looks like a nice camera. At work we've been using ST cameras and in addition to needing an FPGA to manage the camera, our experience is that you've...
... The Polebot test was successful. :) I was able to connect wirelessly to Alan's network and then connect to my home PC and see the history channel. This...
... With that kind of encouragement I'll jump right in. ;-) ... AVR32 has hardware support for cameras, huh? I'll have to look at that. ... I only have...
Jeffry Sampson
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Mar 3, 2008 5:08 pm
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... hobbyist. ... That seems to be an ST thing. I've heard better things about Ovonics; at the least there are a lot of CMUcams and AVRcams that are out there...
As I was driving around today I was looking at the wireless nodes that have sprung up everywhere. I was sitting at a stoplight and it occurred to me that if I...
Jeffry Sampson
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Mar 3, 2008 5:37 pm
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Oh, I just didn't look far enough. Here they are telling me the secrets: https://secure.usiwireless.com/order/home-service.cfm?code=WebsitePromo -- Jeff...
Jeffry Sampson
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Mar 3, 2008 5:44 pm
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Jeff, Does the $20/mo get you a 'last mile' pipe AND an ISP? From what I read on the Minneapolis City web pages, they are providing bandwidth to ISPs who will...
Their FAQ page: http://www.usiwireless.com/service/faqs.htm http://www.usiwireless.com/service/faqs/faq05.htm Says you get 3 email addresses with your account....
Jeffry Sampson
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Mar 3, 2008 6:06 pm
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I called they said they are an ISP and you get up to 3 mail boxes. Nothing required besides the modem for home service. ________________________________ From:...
This may be a case where they have no idea what the problem is so they say it is "noise". It could also be that your neighbors have the same problem but they...
Jeffry Sampson
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Mar 3, 2008 7:31 pm
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I don’t have a cable box or cable TV. Just cable internet. The cable comes into the basement, goes through a grounded block, up to the computer room to the...
By cable box I meant cable modem. Can you get them to swap that out? -- Jeff Sampson ________________________________ From: tcrobots@yahoogroups.com...
Jeffry Sampson
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Mar 3, 2008 7:48 pm
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I had problems with my Comcast service cutting in and out and bad noise over the cable TV. The cable company came out cable ends out side of the house, then...
Something you might try is to run a trace route continuously between the time when you are disrupted and the time you get connectivity back. Ideally you should...
I saw a presentation once by the people who sell wire guides for use in cube walls. They stated that electric pencil sharpeners will jam ethernet due to the...
FYI I can check my cable signal strength in mV with the diagnostic tools built into my cable modem and Panasonic plasma TV. Maybe you should check that when...
Does anyone know anything about VME bus? We are about to surplus a 6U VME rack w power supply in it. It doesn't look like it has a CPU, but does have dual 3.5...
well it has been just short of a year and my eggbot is finally moving, just in time for easter. do you still have the software available? thank-you Andrew To:...
... Only to a nutcase. Grab the power supply, scrap the rest. VME was good and fast for it's day, but not any more. The main advantage it has now is it is...
Maybe I got a little ahead of myself on this one. I wasn't worried until I started looking for RAM chips. It turns out you can find lots of SRAM chips these...
Jeffry Sampson
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Mar 4, 2008 5:13 pm
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I think the AVR cam only looks at the most significant nibble of the 8 bit pixel depth for each color. So the only does 12 bit color. Jeff ...
Jeffry Sampson said: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:14 AM ... I just posted this on the DPRG list, thought it might be of interest for your discussion here as...
Jeffry Sampson said: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:14 AM ... I just posted this on the DPRG list, thought it might be of interest for your discussion here as...
That's a sweet set up. It's a little pricey for me at the moment. Now if we had something in between. Wasn't there something called iBot awhile back? Oh, here...
Jeffry Sampson
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Mar 4, 2008 9:55 pm
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... I figured out what sync burst SRAM is. The chips, either 512Kx18 or 256Kx36, actually have 1Mx9 memory inside. So the 18-bit chips write two bytes at a...