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Android Touch Sensor Board. Android Touch Sensor Board and supporting equipment. Priced at $595 (including S&H inside the US, see below for overseas shipping). 1 full kit includes the following: a) 1 - Android touch sensor board (assembled & tested) b) 35 - Force sensing resistors (FSRs) c) 1 - 25 pin parallel printer cable (male - female) d) 1 - 26 pin to 25 pin parallel interface cable (5 inches) e) 4 - 20 pin ribbon cables. f) 1 - Variable voltage power transformer. g) 1 - Power adaptor cable & 2 connectors. h) 8 - spare SIPs (different resistors yield different sensitivity) i) 1 - CD includes all software, documentation, & instructions j) 1 - Hardware assembly guide. K) 1 - Software development guide. L) 2 - free support calls Board & FSRs Board & cables Full kit just $595 $100 discount available for Educational Institutions - just $495 Overseas Shipping Costs Air Parcel Post (US Post Office) 7 - 10 days - $25 Fed Ex / UPS 3 days - $95 They are available now at $3 each.

FSR Theory and History Want to try out some FSRs? From: Mr. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Random-access memory. Random-access memory (RAM /ræm/) is a form of computer data storage. A random-access memory device allows data items to be read and written in roughly the same amount of time regardless of the order in which data items are accessed.[1] In contrast, with other direct-access data storage media such as hard disks, CD-RWs, DVD-RWs and the older drum memory, the time required to read and write data items varies significantly depending on their physical locations on the recording medium, due to mechanical limitations such as media rotation speeds and arm movement delays.

Today, random-access memory takes the form of integrated circuits. Strictly speaking, modern types of DRAM are not random access, as data is read in bursts, although the name DRAM / RAM has stuck. However, many types of SRAM are still random access even in a strict sense. History[edit] Early computers used relays, mechanical counters[4] or delay lines for main memory functions. Types of RAM[edit] Memory hierarchy[edit] How to Build a Robot Tutorials - Society of Robots. Pyttsx library. Operating system. For hardware functions such as input and output and memory allocation, the operating system acts as an intermediary between programs and the computer hardware,[1][2] although the application code is usually executed directly by the hardware and frequently makes system calls to an OS function or is interrupted by it.

Operating systems are found on many devices that contain a computer – from cellular phones and video game consoles to web servers and supercomputers. Types of operating systems Single- and multi-tasking Single- and multi-user Single-user operating systems have no facilities to distinguish users, but may allow multiple programs to run in tandem.[6] A multi-user operating system extends the basic concept of multi-tasking with facilities that identify processes and resources, such as disk space, belonging to multiple users, and the system permits multiple users to interact with the system at the same time.

Distributed Templated Embedded Real-time Library History Mainframes Microcomputers.