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@lore @quilnux@mastodon.fulltermprivacy.com @Phil I remember why I knew about SHARC and that's VLIW and relatively open documentation.

TMS320 DSPs eventually evolved, perhaps devolved, to OMAP. It's powerful but so is the NDA for documentation. It also was used by military in various forms. One was used in radar so I guess it is out of the question.

Qualcomm Hexagon is impressive but NDAs make it look like an iPhone for development. Yeah it's practically trash.

Aside from asking your friendly local military for the Doom Slayers of DSPs they no longer use, I would recommend an FPGA.

Of FPGAs I would say Lattice iCE as they seem to be one of the only dependable FPGAs that can work with open source. I have a couple from a foreign company that are all but useless.

A lot of talk for not a lot of help. How much DSP is needed? I'd honestly recommend an FPGA to work with as it can be obtained. Expense is rather surprising compared to DSP evaluation boards.

The OMAP DSPs were used on inexpensive quadcopters and the Beagle Bone Black. Those might be the least expensive and easiest to obtain. The OMAP DSPs were used in smartphones too so it should be a decent choice. SBCs could potentially be used for a very inexpensive testbed. It's just finding the instant on RTOS versions used in various environments.

@freemo @MelodyCooper @stormy178@mastodon.stormy178.com Someone has to be this person so I'll proceed. Firearms are really cool and very dense in Physics and Engineering. With the War on X mentality, education has suffered.

The CETME's history and the development of the AR-15 are absolutely insane. Ian McCollum with Forgotten Weapons has really cool videos on the subjects.

It really says something when my interest in Electrochemistry was sparked by Uncle Fester. Fast forward to me using that information to protect structures from corrosion. It was 4 or 5 graduate level texts later but it still sparked that thirst for knowledge and eventual application.

Give kids every chance to stand in pure awe of something. One moment for me was seeing a real SR-71 in person. I couldn't touch it but still I got moved along by guards because I was paying too much attention. It was being serviced and I was able to see a little bit of the turbines. Not even porn has been that interesting. A crude example but it was that amazing. I can still visualize that section rather vividly approximately 24 years later.

@lore @quilnux@mastodon.fulltermprivacy.com @Phil OMAP, Hexagon and the other last call DSPs could potentially work. Texas Instruments had a really good DSP for what it was.

Aside from TI, a FPGA might be a good choice.

@PawelK @lupyuen @ThatCrazyDude @kravietz Thank you for introducing me to some important people too.

@PawelK @lupyuen @ThatCrazyDude @kravietz Mr. Lee is the man for anything related to embedded system hardware, firmware and up to regular systems. He's the best developer I know of. He has worked on nearly every arch I can think of except for maybe Cell (Multiclet).

I don't doubt he can look at a product and determine if it will be successful or a failure. A Professional in many different ways. His CV seems impossible.

@PawelK @kravietz They would quickly learn about the pain of addiction when they land in a foreign country and have their phone able to transmit. Nothing like owing a dealer 700 USD. That's a good amount of fun if it's not mobile data.

That's a sufficient amount of fun here but in some areas of Europe, that's going to go farther.

@kravietz Aircraft are extremely resistant to EMP as they get struck by lightning all the time. Plasma has weird properties and it's rather strong.

The hardware controlling the drones can be swapped to radiation resistant hardware in addition to shielding materials inside or outside the drone.

The weapon has to have a cool down period between firing and another swarm could come in during that time.

A really cool technology is being brought back for fast flying small targets and it's the shotgun. There have been experiments in the past to extend the lethal range and effective range. I believe that one used buckshot and was effective to around 200m. The fastest way is likely going to be a thermobarric volley so it will crush and rip them apart or just damage the rotors.

Thermobarric rounds are really cool and should work decently, they work better when there are chambers or something to help with the pressure wave. It should still work well and not have much falling debris.

The truth is that it could be a threat made from regular quadcopters to something much more rugged. The weapons will have to evolve along with the drones.

From what I've seen being used, a shotgun could work or use those 40mm under barrel launchers to get an easy 25m kill radius. The only modifications needed would be an altimeter and an inexpensive optical sensor paired with a processor. (Honestly it could be an inexpensive smartphone) The rounds could use time and atmospheric pressure from the ground unit to detonate. So that's a soldier operated unit which are seemingly the same on the AK and M16/M4.

@PawelK @kravietz It damaged 35mm film if I recall correctly and it can easily destroy SD cards. As an American, I would leave all electronics behind and buy local electronics for a trip.

I do believe that SD cards and similar items can be excluded from a scan as they hold information. They could, assume so, be cloned for inspection. Every border crossing can reveal data like the Chinese malware on phones. Americans are probably going to clone everything including pictures and it's likely for personal use.

Yeah those checkpoints are bad news so I'd recommend not bringing anything that can't immediately be thrown away or left on a table. Trying to block the scanner is going to end badly. So have it excluded from that scan or have radiation resistant hardware.

@PawelK @GluedToTheScreen Depth charge or Dropped munition set to detonate at the optimal altitude? If it's the latter I'd think fission only with low yield, the gun type. It could be the sphere with potential fusion but I wouldn't expect such a crude system when tolerances are so low for proper initiation. I'll have to look at it again. Something tells me that it is around the altitude that one went off in Japan.

It could have been a counter at Mikoyan for how many planes they downed before the MiG-25 scared the US and the F-15 was created.

@thor Norway Petroleum was very lucrative. I don't know exactly how much it paid but it was around 250,000 for someone I knew. They bought a new Jeep for 60k, put 20k into upgrades and sold it when moving back. Their argument was that it never got to be used like what it was built for so they sold it for 10k.

I was confused that they didn't know how to operate heavy equipment and even more confused that they complemented me on my skill. Very nice people.

@lupyuen Pegasus has been known to work closely with governments to identify and target threats. They don't have a history of leaving bodies. I'm a huge fan of their work.

@thor Trebuchet.

@Renegade_GDI@mastodon.world @PawelK Russia and Iran have many great things. There's always using an exploit to control existing accounts. The only limits are words called laws. Pretty sure humanz has more rights than words does.

@lupyuen These flavors of Ubuntu and Debian rarely get the attention they deserve.

@Renegade_GDI@mastodon.world @PawelK Add a few home servers in VMs, make good boy accounts and have a good time.

@thor That's classy.