BREAKING NEWS: APPLE HAS RELEASED A NEW RECTANGLE. IT IS BETTER THAN THE PREVIOUS RECTANGLE, WHICH WAS A LESSER RECTANGLE. SOME PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY WITH THE NEW RECTANGLE BECAUSE OF [[CHANGES]]. THE NEW RECTANGLE HAS ANIMATED POO.
Mergers and acquisitions? Not this time. Lattice Semiconductor would have been bought by Canyon Bridge — a private equity firm backed by the Chinese government — for $1.3B. This deal was shut down by the US government because of national security concerns.
[Jan] is the Internet’s expert in doing synths on single chips, and now he has something pretty cool. It’s a breadboard synth with MIDI and CV input. Basically, what we’re looking at is [Jan]’s CVS-01 chip for a DCO, DCF, and DCA), a KL5 chip for an LFO, and an envelope chip. Tie everything together with a two-octave captouch keyboard, and you have a complete synthesizer on a breadboard.
As an aside relating to the above, does anyone know what the cool kids are using for a CV/Gate keyboard controller these days? Modular synths are making a comeback, but it looks like everyone is running a MIDI keyboard into a MIDI-CV converter. It seems like there should be a –simple, cheap– controller with quarter-inch jacks labeled CV and Gate. Any suggestions?
World leaders are tweeting. The Canadian PM is awesome and likes Dark Castle.
Way back in July, Square, the ‘POS terminal on an iPad’ company posted some data on Twitter. Apparently, fidget spinner sales peaked during the last week of May, and were declining through the first few weeks of summer. Is this proof the fidget spinner fad was dead by August? I have an alternate hypothesis: fidget spinner sales are tied to middle schoolers, and sales started dropping at the beginning of summer vacation. We need more data, so if some of you could retweet this, that would be awesome.
Remember [Peter Sripol], the guy building an ultralight in his basement? This is going to be a five- or six-part video build log, and part three came out this week. This video features the installation of the control surfaces, the application of turnbuckles, and hardware that is far too expensive for what it actually is.
Animated poo? Cut and paste error?
BREAKING NEWS: APPLE HAS RELEASED A NEW RECTANGLE. IT IS BETTER THAN THE PREVIOUS RECTANGLE, WHICH WAS A LESSER RECTANGLE. SOME PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY WITH THE NEW RECTANGLE BECAUSE OF [[CHANGES]]. THE NEW RECTANGLE HAS ANIMATED POO.
Thats correct, the new iRectangle has animated poo where the old iRectangle was only non-animated poo :P
Nope, Steve Jobs lives on in animated poo emojis.
Not a real big Ellen fan, but her quip about there being glass on the back so now you can break both sides got me laughing.
Heh, heh heh heh, heh, POS, heh heh, heh… — and having worked in retail and restaurants, they…they all are.
WTF? Hackaday hacked?
Hey, I like my old rectangle it was the best rectangle since the last rectangle but it doesn’t have any poo …
Thanks, now I finally understand those poo references.
Check the presentation video. The X version uses motion capture of user face to animate emojis including the smiling po emoji. So it is literally supports animating poo.
Lattice Semiconductor must have been something if shot down under national security concerns.
Probably the founder company made a valve for the B-52s avionics.
High temperature chips.
Programmable logic devices (PLDs) which can have military applications such as in missiles and radar systems.
http://www.raysemko.com/2012/12/19/two-recent-illegal-export-to-china-cases/
All these things are already made by the Chinese though aren’t they? And likely developed by Chinese students in US universities come to think of it.
Perhaps they should focus on countries like Turkey and Saudi-Arabia and Bahrain and Qatar etcetera etctera not getting nukes right about now instead. Because I bet a good sum on that all of them are working on it, or worse – secretively already made one.
Well, yes, but that is not really the point of blocking this particular acquisition. We can’t rely on an enemies resources during times of war.
But in times of war you just take the opponent’s factories in your own country, and the patents. I expect.
I wonder if there are modern rules for that, when what how much how long andsoforth
I’m not sure about rules, but part of the issue is a foreign entity owning an American company or manufacturing base also has access to intellectual property, unless that property is specifically labeled as classified, but it would be difficult to control access to that IP. And if a foreign entity owns a company or manufacturing base, some US government projects are instantly out of bounds for that foreign entity due to classification restrictions.
I hope Lattice Semi is OK. I *love* their iCE40 HX8K evaluation board along with the IceStorm tools, and the fact they sell hardware to normal people that don’t want to buy 10,000 at once.
Dead link on the synth.
https://janostman.wordpress.com/2017/09/15/the-breadboard-ts-a-synth-builders-dream-2/
Looks like he deleted that for some reason. Now that link goes to something similar. /shrug
Why do you keel posting his stuff here? He insults you personally, he insults most people who comment on HaD posts linking to his work, muff wiggler and other forums dedicated to synths are full of tales of woe regarding disappointed customers.
> Why do you keep posting his stuff here? He insults you personally….
If I ignored everyone who insulted me, Hackaday wouldn’t exist.
Just think about those who carefully cultivated and documented their grudges from when the internet was young, they must be running their killfiles on multi petabyte RAID arrays by now.
Hackaday would be no worse off if you didn’t post his stuff. Better off if anything
Mr Benchoff, with all due respect, shouting on the Internet is not a nice/cool/etc thing. Please set your keyboard to its /indoor/ voice setting… you can do that by repeatedly beating your CapsLock key until the corresponding indicator lamp turns off…
;)
Before it was shouting it was speaking in Apple ][ because lower case didn’t….. wellll… let’s just say with the 0.7 effective dot pitch your spare 5 year old black and white TV was capable of, you needed all the help reading it you could get, it needed to yell through the terribad focus.
HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY READ BREAKING NEWS IF IT’S NOT ALL CAPS?
You can’t have breaking news unless you freeze it first and then drop it on a hard surface.
Two major storms with round the clock coverage that even knocked Presidential tweets off the banner crawl.
But not a single BREAKING WIND NEWS story was to be seen.
I don’t have a caps lock key. I remapped it to right Ctrl, like all intelligent and cosmopolitan people should.
I HOLD DOWN THE SHIFT KEY< IT"S MORE !##& 1
I learned to use computers on an ASR-33 Teletype and dammit, the Ctrl key belongs next to the A! That’s where God intended it to be and the fact that the Caps Lock key is there now is all IBM’s fault, because they thought personal computers were just fancy typewriters.
I’ve been remapping keys since 1985.
Why was it IBM’s fault, they put it right of the spacebar on PCs initially…
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/kb/layout/z_011261xt.jpg
And why the hell can’t I have my function keys on the left any more?
You can still use those keyboards if you know how to flash a Teensy, which I assume you do since you’re posting on Hackaday. They’re not horribly expensive, and they’re incredibly well made.
I’ve got a clone somewhere with an XT-AT switch on the bottom and a 5 pin DIN to PS/2 and a PS/2 to USB active (Not just a pin changer for KB MCUs that supported 2 protocol.) So I could if I wanted.
They put the Caps Lock next to the A key on the IBM PC AT keyboard.
Yah the 101 enhanced, but that was after taking a lot of flak from users wanting this and that moved, so partially response to that.
However, on mechanical typewriters it was a latch operating on the left shift key so was immediately above left shift, so that was traditional position.
Good question on the function keys.
Another thing that’s interesting (I mentioned this before) is that officially you can have 24 of them, and windows for instance happily supports it natively, but I’ve NEVER seen more than 12 on anything. And if a keyboard has extra keys that can be assigned arbitrarily they use a special driver to map them to things like ‘G1’ and ‘L1’ and such.
You really have to go your own way for your own keyboard eh.
My two greatest concerns for the new Apple Rectangle are how does it’s battery life compare with that of the Lesser Rectangle and will the new batteries be fire proof or at least fire resistant?
Last I heard they said they new CPU was more power efficient.
And it’s apple, they don’t mind throwing money at things to not have them burst into flames.
Although.. you are still reliant on 3rd party suppliers I suppose, and even reliable ones nowadays suddenly drop the ball on occasion. But at least Apple will have protective circuitry and sensors to shut things down.
Ultralight in basement
Is it just me, or are those turnbuckle ends the wrong type, going to cut into the av cable?
But then there used to be an ultralight that used drapery cord and related hardware from Sears for their control lines…
Fun to watch them in variable wind, with the pilot working the controls like people driving cars in the old movies: constantly turning the steering wheel back and forth.
The turnbuckles are fine. The fact he doesn’t use wire thimbles (reinforcement in the eye/loop) of the wire is concerning. The overal method of construction leads me to believe he hasn’t even bothered getting at least some information on aviation best-practice guidelines in construction. The way the seatbelts are attached is also terribad.
And I’m not seeing how he assembled his joy-stick joints/bearings. As in, something to prevent Al on Al wear and Al on bolt wear. And I’m concerned about the stick breaking at the joint under the leveraged control forces when you’re thrown around in the wind.
All these comments, and not one has mentioned the unmatched ) in “Basically, what we’re looking at is [Jan]’s CVS-01 chip for a DCO, DCF, and DCA)”.
I errored at that, and couldn’t read the rest of the article.
leading ( was 3 posts back
Trudeau != awesome
Basically a pretty face of corporate globalism. All sweet talk and no real action on any issue. Girls like him though.
Pretty face, empty head.
For the Gate/CV synth controller the Arturia KeyStep and KMI QuNexus are popular. They both have MIDI and a couple of Gate/CV outputs.
Well played, Benchoff :)
Gooeygle’s Circle is far better and uses recent tech. Not to worry. crApple will be introducing Ovaloid soon which will have similar features and cost four times as much. If u can get one.