Hobby Electronics Basics Re: Open Instrumentation Project: Newsletter 8

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Re: Open Instrumentation Project: Newsletter 8 Peter Ceresole 09-20-08
Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 20, 2008, 12:02 pm
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> > >The OIP makes open-source software and economical high-technology
> > >instrumentation hardware for students, hobbiests, engineers and
> > >scientists.
> >
> > ---
> > Hobbyists?
>
> Hobbits?

Surely just people who do the funnest hobbies?
--
Peter

Posted by Chris Ridd on September 20, 2008, 1:04 pm
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On 2008-09-20 17:02:56 +0100, peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) said:

>
>>>> The OIP makes open-source software and economical high-technology
>>>> instrumentation hardware for students, hobbiests, engineers and
>>>> scientists.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Hobbyists?
>>
>> Hobbits?
>
> Surely just people who do the funnest hobbies?

Wasn't he Calvin's toy tiger?

Cheers,

Chris


Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 20, 2008, 1:57 pm
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> > Surely just people who do the funnest hobbies?
>
> Wasn't he Calvin's toy tiger?

You mean Hobbes used an iPod Touch?
--
Peter

Posted by Jeffrey Goldberg on September 20, 2008, 5:54 pm
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>
>>> Surely just people who do the funnest hobbies?
>>
>> Wasn't he Calvin's toy tiger?
>
> You mean Hobbes used an iPod Touch?

He considered it nasty, brutish and short. So he replaced it with
something so much larger it could be considered a monstrous whale.

Cheers,

-j

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