[dba-Tech] Incredible kid

Hi Gustav:

So you must have a Raspberry PI or maybe more. There are now so many addins and addons, software and hardware, to this product. There are forums where you can download or upload code and plans for building all sort of interfaces. 

The graduating students, at the local college, in the electronic and engineering programs have to assemble a new product before their final year. Many now have a RPI as the core. The May, graduating exhibit has always been an event I attend.

I am not as much into the hardware end of things though I have been able to assemble computers easily enough but laptops are too small for me...eyes and all. A friend, who is much more into electronics, has built a home automation system through out his house, built a controller for a 3D metal cutter, enhanced his 3D printer and created a dashboard display for his electric car...Raspberries have now played an integral part.

I was thinking of taking an electronics course, up at the college and the university as I have a little more time and that area of knowledge is a little weak and there has been so many advances lately...all that will now have to wait until next fall.

Jim  

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 1:18:48 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Incredible kid

Hi Jim

Great! It reminds me of my younger days when I dissambled old radios to find out how the worked (well, after that they didn't) and built, say, an "echo chamber" from a small speaker from a transistor radio, a selfmade spring from cobber wire, and an crystal pickup with worn-out needle from a record player. It worked but the sound was, of course, awful.

Or the famous scene from Apollo 13 where the chief engineer presents to the team of engineers a table with replicas of "what parts we have available in the capsule - assemble these to fix the oxygen supply within x hours."

/gustav

>>> accessd at shaw.ca 26-01-14 5:20 >>>
Here is a link to an incredible kid who came from Sierra Leone builds his own electronics from junk. He built his own radio station and shares his channel on the internet as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOLOLrUBRBY

Jim 


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