Aug 29 2009
I just built a little audio amp using an LM386 chip and the Little Gem amplifier circuit. I plugged it into my Arduino and programmed up a little well-tempered scale. I found to my surprise that if the Arduino was off and I touched the amplifier input, then I got very faint speech out of my little speaker, which I am pretty sure is NPR!
Aug 01 2009
The recent controversy over Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice app reminds me again that mobile is one of the key areas of development and therefore conflict between the major IT players.
It seems pretty clear that 90% of what people want to do with computers they would like to have on the go – email and internet are prime uses, gaming is another.
I have another post to write about the importance of migration of data and computation to the cloud, but briefly I’ll say that you can do almost everything you need to with your data and major compute power living in the cloud accessed through a relatively thin connection.
Network access is a key piece of both the mobile and cloud computing puzzles, which makes the phone companies key.
