Anuj Deshpande anujdeshpande

Boldport, one of the interwebs better known hardware design guys went on a rant on how prototyping is so very different from production. If you have ever held a solder gun, or intend to, you should read this.

Why did your "hardware startup" Kickstarter fail? Because none of your prototyping skills are required for production. source

Skill	Prototyping	Production
coding	sloppy	efficient

There are so many things I wish I started doing earlier. Just in case I run into a time-travel scenario, here's a list of things -

Developing hardware

Better cabling and wire management
Don't use single strand wires.
Keep a bunch of hardware scripts soldered and ready
Using a transistor as switch

Follow SDK and dev host setup guide on marvell-iot.github.io
Recent advances in IoT
ARM uControllers and Wi-Fi
Exploring AWS IoT
Some of Makerville's projects

Types of Internet connected devices

Medium	Examples
Cellular	Asset tracking, weather stations
Wi-Fi	Lightbulbs,
Ethernet	Printers, Card readers

Moved to the Makerville Wiki

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	fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0

	Time to resize partitions to occupy the complete SD card.

	fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

	Now delete extended, logical. Create extended, logical.

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	from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger, PdfFileReader

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	import json, os
	import pprint
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