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There is the famous example of Thaladomide, which was approved by the regulators in the Germany and caused a disaster in birth defects:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
US FDA however was skeptical of the safety of the drug and never approved it for sale in US.
The Daylight tablet is the closest to Playdate display among the tablets listed in the article.
Check out this Android tablet, which would support running gcc through Termux I think.
The device does have white LEDs too. So you can adjust the color temperature. It is just that most of the marketing materials are done to highlight the amber display feature.
The brownout prevention hack you mentioned in the pcb design page is really neat!
Any Bluetooth keyboard will work.
Source: I was the chief hw designer for this project.
The tablet does have page turn buttons! There is a side button and a top button. The side button in particular is nice as a page turn button.
Source: I was the chief hw engineer for this product.
Yes - the backlight temperature allows you to adjust it from a pure (albeit on the warmer side) white to pure amber.
Source: I was the chief hw engineer for this device.
The colors do not invert when the backlight is on, which is great because you can turn on only a slight amount of backlight if you need it, and have it blend to the ambient lighting.
It supports 256 levels of grayscale.
You can use an app called Duet Display on it. It works quite well (can’t remember the exact ms latency now)
I like Wacom’s own drawing app for sketching!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wacom.bamb...
Source: I was the chief hardware engineer for this device.
The problem with eink tablets is that they must use front light, and not backlight due to how eink works. This means there is an extra layer in front of the layer where the pixels are, which causes parallax effects which makes writing feel fake. This is (likely) why remarkable deleted the frontlight from their product.
Whereas with the daylight tablet, we have a trans reflective display and a backlight. Since the backlight layer is behind the layer where the pixels are, the parallax does not suffer.
I find the experience of writing with a Wacom EMR pen on mine very pleasing :)
Source: I was the chief hardware engineer for this project.
Thanks for your comment! I grew up using a Palm III that was already super old when I had it in high school. But years later, my fond memories of the sense of focus I had using it became a major inspiration for deciding to join Anjan’s team for this project :)
Source: I was the chief hardware engineer for this device.
Anjan can comment further to see if the team these days has any further optimizations in store, but with my personal Daylight tablet anecdotally, these days I am charging it every other week, and using it for 1-2 hours a day to browse the web and read PDFs. I usually have a low backlight setting on it.
It is not in Berkeley, but Yoshi’s in Oakland is a great Jazz club.
What do you mean by this? What is wrong with the engine and transmission choice of Subaru that makes it a handicap?
Didn’t Facebook pursue this idea also? Do you know the details and why they didn’t end up succeeding?
https://www.theverge.com/a/mark-zuckerberg-future-of-faceboo...
It is still used widely in China and Taiwan. PADS is ok but it has a clunky and dated interface. It’s more capable older cousin Xpedition is used heavily in aerospace and medical design applications.
Some engineers do balance inverted pendulums in their careers! https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/15486/how-does-the...
You are not wrong overall, but I am not sure if the opportunity is huge, at least IMO not enough to sustain a VC-backed company (or perhaps barely). As a benchmark, Altium has a market cap of 6B. The fundamental problem is that there aren't that many HW engineers out there (compared to SWEs and SWE adjacents like DevOps etc). And the existing players are super entrenched into existing companies doing HW design.
There are some interesting companies out there that I am watching, like flux.io. The problem there is that none of these companies are working on creating open-source tooling, so their endgame seems to be getting acquired by Altium, Cadence et al.
I fear a future where doing even regular PCB designs will be gatekept by the Cadences and Synopysyes of the world, akin to how IC design is today. At least we have KiCad right now, which is getting really powerful and is fantastic for doing PCB development work.
KiCad v7 is wonderful.
Is your android internals course available somewhere? It is a topic I have been meaning to learn more and there is not much out there that is up to date.
My company is big on hiring designers who can code. We are in the humane tech / hw / AI space. My email is in my profile, feel free to reach out if interested!
I think the Omicron Bode 100 is the best bang for buck for a proper VNA these days.
What a teaser! Can't wait to see it. Anything you can share right now about what you are building?
Do folks still expect you to keep up with research papers as an ML engineer?
Ibn Fadlan’s writings about his encounters with Vikings are a fun read : https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Saint_Mary's_College_(N...
Rumor has it that Humane will release a Her style earbud soon. https://hu.ma.ne/
How do you use the remarkable 2 in your workflow?
I also agree that the one most useful habit is a daily log. It hits the sweet spot for me in terms of low friction + benefits in organizing information.
I do this as well. The easiest solution I found is to unplug my modem when I am working from home.