• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Because it’s cheaper to buy a commodity chip and program it rather than get an application specific chip made.

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      20 hours ago

      As i said in my original post, “A dumb circuit without even a single chip in it could do that.” Vibration units can literally just respond to voltage. It’s how electrical devices worked before chips, like old pinball machines and old radios. It works just like how a standing fan works - there’s a mechanical motor, and you literally just need to attach plain copper wires onto the motor’s contact points and stick the other ends of the wire into the slots of a wall power outlet.

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      1 day ago

      You don’t need a chip in a vibration circuit. Hell a potentiometer is more than sufficient to give you different levels of vibration

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        22 hours ago

        I don’t know why I’m replying this deep to play devils advocate for some stupid knife, but I could see a situation where you haven’t completed the research on optimal frequency and ship it out while that’s ongoing. Maybe the window of optimal frequency is narrow enough, or unknown enough, that it’d be difficult to calibrate a potentiometer such that the end user could find that ideal point.

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          22 hours ago

          I want an update that let’s it play audio files by vibraing the blade.

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            22 hours ago

            My only acceptable IoT scenario is where all hardware is open and we can indeed flash music software onto it.