You know what next week is? Sparklecon! What is it? Everybody hangs out at the 23b Hackerspace in Fullerton, California. Last year, people were transmuting the elements, playing Hammer Jenga, roasting marshmallows over hot resistors, and generally having a really great time. It’s the party for our sort of people, and there are talks on 3D projection mapping and a hebocon. I can’t recommend this one enough.
The STM32F7 is a very, very powerful ARM Cortex-M7 microcontroller with piles of RAM, oodles of Flash, DSP, and tons of I/O. It’s a relatively new part, so are there any breakout or dev boards for it? Sure thing. [satsha] used a desktop CNC mill to create what is probably the simplest possible breakout board for the STM32F7. There’s not much here — just some parts for power and a few LEDs — but this is all you need to get one of these powerful chips up and running.
It’s cold and dark and you can’t fly RC airplanes in January. It’s not because planes and quadcopters don’t work in the cold (they should work better, but I’d love to see a graph of battery temperature and density altitude), it’s that your hands don’t work in the cold. What’s the solution? Just strap some motorcycle handwarmer thingies onto your transmitter. With a 2200 battery strapped to the back, you’ll get about an hour of runtime for these handwarmers.
The BBC is reporting the latest advancement in Hyperloop technology. Is it a fundamentally different way of digging tunnels that isn’t simply scaling down the size of tunnel boring machines? No. Is it improvements in material science that would allow the seals on a 500-mile-long steel pressure chamber to exist? No. Does this latest advancement mitigate the ‘hillbillies with guns’ problem that would turn every Hyperloop car into a literal bullet screaming towards one of the most spectacular deaths possible? No. The chief executive of the Virgin Hyperloop project has something better in mind. A smartphone app, “that would connect future Hyperloop passengers with other modes of transport on arrival.”
“No. The chief executive of the Virgin Hyperloop project has something better in mind. A smartphone app, “that would connect future Hyperloop passengers with other modes of transport on arrival.””
At least they can actually build that and maybe even make it work.
How to succeed, step one: Set an attainable goal.
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Couldn’t they build lots of separate pressure chambers, with sliding doors between each? So at any time, the segment you’re in, and the one ahead, have the door between open. Then you pass into the next, door behind closes, next one opens.
Of course it’s still impossible and bollocks and completely not going to happen for lots of other reasons, economics being just one. There wasn’t the business to support the supersonic Concorde, and that’s like Lego compared to an evacuated continental tunnel.
I was on a concorde yesterday, it actually made me properly sad to think we had peaked and there was no successor…
build one in shed o convert old RAF jet (cheap second hand)
“The STM32F7 is a very, very powerful ARM Cortex-M7 microcontroller with piles of RAM, oodles of Flash, DSP, and tons of I/O.”
3D print a robotic snake with this being the brains.
saying “the brains” in 2018…
Not sure if “the brains” is funny because calling a processor a brain is very 1990s computer class or because brains seem to have gone away in popular culture.
A uC that supports Meltdown and Spectre? Awesome!
“6-stage superscalar pipeline with branch prediction” Wooot!
POC needed. Write us when you’ve got one. :) tips@hackaday.com
The rc drone guys already have a few flight controllers with the stm32f7. https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2884546-Omnibus-f7
Any educated guesses what it would cost for OSHpark to make the breakout board for the STM32f7? (can they do that complex (small traces)?
They work on sq inch. I reckon approx 30-40USD for 3 copies.
Easy enough to grab the file and upload it to OSH to check?
Definitely within their capabilities; we’ve got guys doing RF voodoo, BGA, all sorts with OSH.
Fyi, that M7 board was milled mechanically, it can most definitely be fabbed using photomask processes.
Thanks to how our monkey brains work, that Virgin Hyperloop chief executive will go down as the father of modern transportation along with Musk. Kind of like how Adrian Bowyer and Bre Pettis were somehow reported to be the fathers of 3D printing.