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posted by mrcoolbp on Wednesday April 08 2015, @06:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the voting-FTW dept.

Make is currently holding voting on the PSoC (Programmable System-on-Chip) maker challenge.

Each of the projects entered in the contest had to use the new PSoC 4 BLE Pioneer Kit, a new IoT-focused developer kit manufactured by Cypress. There aren’t a lot of entries in this contest, but they are all really high caliber. And you will decide the final few projects that our judges will weigh in on. There’s one week to cast votes for your favorite project/s. You can cast one vote per project per day for as many projects as you wish through April 15.

The entries include a 'portable ECG monitoring system over BLE,' a 'smart board game', and an 'electric bicycle data collection and logging service for battery health and lifecycle monitoring'.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday April 09 2015, @04:12AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday April 09 2015, @04:12AM (#168161) Homepage Journal

    And yes the hospital staff protested that I don't have a right to Internet. The argument went back and forth between my pointing out that I have a right to "manage my own financial affairs" - as is what the law actually says - and then my pointing out that I require Internet to actually do so.

    We go round and round on this until some more-senior staff member gets wind of the argument, who is already aware that I really do have the right to manage my own financial affairs.

    Ironically, the rights of the patients are just about always posted on a wall somewhere, but the staff doesn't read the poster. They're not patients, see.

    There are plenty of hospitals that do provide Internet. While they don't permit power cords to the patients, the staff are happy to keep my power adapters at the nurse's desk, then to charge my MacBook Pro and my iPhone behind the desk. At Stanford Medical Center they have a utility closet with a whole bunch of power sockets, as so many of the patients there bring their technology with them when they check in.

    When I point this out to the hospitals that don't believe me when I tell them I have a right to do my online banking, they regard me as delusional. That is, they don't believe me when I tell them that Stanford actually encourages patients to use their smartphones. Many hospitals confiscate all mobile phones - not just phones with cameras. At Stanford their only concern is with power cords, so they are completely cool with camera phones.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Thursday April 09 2015, @04:33AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday April 09 2015, @04:33AM (#168168) Journal

    I thought you meant Internet access when you were a free person so to say. But if one is involuntarily confined in any way. The organization that does so is also obliged to various things regardless of what they say.

    Otherwise it's like confining people to prison inside a concrete building and tell them that it's their own problem to grow food..

    I think Reno might want to ensure they have money to pay in compensation.. ;)

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday April 09 2015, @01:37PM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday April 09 2015, @01:37PM (#168318) Homepage Journal

      My understanding is that it's rather like that in Mexico. I've been told that inmates are only able to eat, if their friends or family bring them food.

      The US legal tradition is based on British Common Law, but Mexico was once a French possession, thus it uses the Napoleonic Code, in which one is presumed guilty until proven innocent.

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