Tag Archives: hardware

“The Tile”

Posted on August 8, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

A couple of weeks ago I had a post called “Find my iThingy”. After describing that post to one of my friends he sent me a link to a crown sourced project called “The Tile”. http://www.thetileapp.com/ I’m sure many of … Continue reading →

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Conferencing without echo cancellation

Posted on August 2, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

The future of large board room conferencing system may not involve echo cancellation. There is a company in the Boston area that makes directional audio tiles that can be installed in the ceiling above conference room seats. The tiles are … Continue reading →

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Find my iThing

Posted on July 10, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

The pressures of daily life tend to make some of us loose focus from time to time and as a result we forget where we parked the car, where we left the remote, where our sun glasses might be, and … Continue reading →

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A Simple, Powerful and Portable network test tool…

Posted on June 14, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

I have already blogged about the Raspberry Pi (the $35 single board computer that runs XBMC or Linux). For this project the Pi would run Raspian which is a custom version of Debian. Raspbian uses the standard apt-get repos to … Continue reading →

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Platforms for innovation

Posted on June 5, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

I started my career 32 years ago designing hardware to connect to phones and the telephone network. It was a growth industry that was created by the deregulation of the telecom industry. I’ve blogged about how a large part of … Continue reading →

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Where have all the hardware companies gone?

Posted on March 19, 2013 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

When I graduated in 1981 and took my first job at Mitel, I was debugging boards for the SX200 PABX. That job eventually evolved into building automatic testers which involved both hardware and software design. From there I transitioned to … Continue reading →

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Do I buy hardware or software?

Posted on December 11, 2012 by ajgillette98@gmail.com

As computer hardware and software evolve, consumers have to decide whether to solve a problem with hardware or software. It is important to analyze the problem that you are trying to solve and carefully compare the performance of a hardware … Continue reading →

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