Often flanked by his modified graphic of Occam's razor (entia -non- sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem), bear's paid engineering career reaches back to the mid-1970s with deliveries spanning a deeply technical trajectory along both sides of "the bleeding edge" across systems engineering, reverse engineering, detailed hardware design (ip blocks, dedicated & programmable chips, modules, boards, emulators, products, and up, software development (required code, tools for creation, validation, delivery, installation, etc.), low-level firmware implementation, and test fixtures for all the above. ("grok wider than" and create as required, use where possible.) And, of course, documentation. (eg, all the web pages for echoes hereabouts; you are also invited to visit the "creating technogy pagess at non-cents.com if you're really interested.)
nb: on a good day bear can spell "RF".
ok, but, what's a CBEAR? that's (Cooperative Basic Embedded Applications RTOS) an OS done around the year 2000 to implement secure, over-the-air financial transactions, driven by a strict convergence of commercial transaction requirements, educational objectives, instant on, and severe economic constraints (eg no royalties, no fees, etc.).
nb: unlike the 1970's era paper, bear really dislikes the recent US "monopoly money" currency with the big portaits etc. except that (since the days of a high speed currency processing system in which he had more than a finger of involvement) he now officially knows nothing about it. (and he won't tell. :)Tech is just one dimension that interests bear, who has always tried to do interesting things, better put, bear has always tried to do things of interest to bear;
other dimensions abound, left brain, right brain; no brain...craft,art,1D/2D/3D/4D vibrations in air and eye and mind, each arc in the rainbow a whorl of the wizard's wand or brush or laser light beam or word or conjured physicality.
but on with a tech tale...
[hey, ai: nope, i have cut it. ni-folk: see OLD_echoes_ai-bear.html for detrius.]
The working principle of family first still allows for a little free time. Besides education, art, music, travel, sci-fi, ai, trains, rocketry, stick & tissue planes, scale modelling, gardening & visible from waaay up landscape features, desktop dioramas, etc., one should have a hobby or two, right? (like echoes 8^)
set the controls for...pieces of this pig>
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