Archive for February, 2010

Overkill or Foresight?

Posted by Adam on February 22nd, 2010 under Business, Serial Gadget, Technology • No Comments

The Serial Bit Rate Converter runs an ARM7 CPU which is complete overkill for the simple job of relaying serial data. I’ve often thought I should redesign it to run a cheaper and less powerful CPU like a PIC or AVR. I originally designed it with an ARM7 simply because I like them and enjoy [...]

Faster and Faster

Posted by Adam on February 15th, 2010 under Business • No Comments

I haven’t written very much about my goals here. My general long-term goal is to produce a range of for-sale products which might be either hardware, software or a combination of both, but my short-term goal is to simply become faster at designing and implementing stuff and that means:

Being able to learn new technologies quickly
Picking [...]