Hello,
Open Source Hardware Camp will once again be taking place in Hebden Bridge in September, but this year as part of a larger technology conference called Wuthering Bytes.
Tickets will permit entry to all Wuthering Bytes sessions, the complete programme for which will go up on:
We have a slightly larger venue than last year, but given that there will be around 18 talks and some pretty great speakers lined up, demand is likely to be high and early booking highly recommended (we sold out last year)
Details of the OSHUG talks are below (one more to be confirmed).
Cheers,
Andrew
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Open Source Hardware Camp 2013
14th September 2013, 09:00 Saturday morning - 16:00 on the Sunday afternoon at Hebden Bridge Town Hall,St. George's Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7BY
— Registration: http://oshug.org/event/oshcamp2013
Sponsored by: DesignSpark - http://www.designspark.com
Hebden Bridge is approximately 1 hour by rail from Leeds and Manchester. Budget accommodation is available at theHebden Bridge Hostel, with private rooms available and discounts for group bookings. Details of other local accommodation can be found at www.hebdenbridge.co.uk.
—— Saturday Talks
- The Importance of Mini Makers
14 year old Amy Mather discusses why the maker culture is so important to the younger generation and introduces us to her idea of a Mini Mini Maker Faire, where only under 18's would be able to exhibit their creations.
Amy Mather, a.k.a. MiniGirlGeek, has been making and coding for 18 months with the guidance and support of the community that she found at Manchester's MadLab and hackspace. Amy was the closing keynote speaker at the world's first Raspberry Jamboree event, speaking alongside Professor Steve Furber and Pete Lomas of the Raspberry Pi foundation. Amy also presented at the inaugural event RSA FutureMaker event at London's Somerset House, where she also ran a workshop introducing attendees to the world of sewable electronics.
- The Good (Zigbee), The Bad (ZWave) and The Ugly (SWAP): panStamp an Arduino-based open platform for smart homes and telecare
There has recently been a lot of buzz about the Internet of Things (IoT), but actually the concept and most of the technology was developed as far back as 1975 with X10, followed by Modbus in 1979, then Zigbee and ZWave around 2005, and more recently 6LowPan.
The availability of low cost devices in combination with cloud services for data storage, sharing and visualization are giving powerful tools in the hand of the developer community. The euphoria generated by the increasing community of smart home developers is counterbalanced by questionable business practices.
As a solution we developed an RF protocol and a hardware platform which is open source and based on the Arduino project for ease of use. The platform comes with a full application stack that allows event based processing, rule based operations and support cloud platform for data sharing.
Dr Paolo Di Prodi co-founded Robomotic in 2009 during his PhD in artificial intelligence at Glasgow University. He became director and started to work full time in 2011 when he was awarded a fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Paolo is a software and automation engineer by formation and become interested in the application of robotic principles in telecare and telehealth since his undergraduates studies. He decided to start Robomotic to fulfil his vision of applying robotics for improving assisted living.
- The @ShrimpingIt Manifesto
Electronics engineers find it trivial to build an Arduino-compatible circuit on a breadboard using components which are just one tenth the cost of an official Arduino board. The @ShrimpingIt project curates open resources and projects so that everyone can progress their prototyping with simple components and materials, just like the experts. The approach delivers a whole host of benefits for those learning to prototype - not just saving money.
We'll be introducing the project, sharing the choicest cuts from our year's experience running it, and featuring lots of the great spin-off projects people have built on our work. The @ShrimpingIt manifesto combines insights from open design and community engagement, arriving at a challenging standpoint of how beginner microcontroller projects should be designed, presented and taught for a better tomorrow.
Cefn Hoile sculpts open source hardware and software, and supports others doing the same. Drawing on ten years of experience in R&D for a multinational technology company, he works as a public domain inventor, and an innovation catalyst and architect of bespoke digital installations and prototypes, working most recently with Tinker.it, BT, the BBC, EDF, Nokia.
Cefn is a founder-member of the Curiosity Collective digital arts group, and a regular contributor to open source projects and not-for-profits. He is currently completing a PhD in Digital Innovation at Highwire, University of Lancaster.
- White Space — Connect all the Things!
White space spectrum may hold the key for wide-area sensor networks. Find out how we can all enable the Internet of Things with this new technology.
Ben Ward is founder of Love Hz, promoting the use of white space spectrum for open innovation in the Internet of Things. A survivor of the dotcom bubble, subsea bandwidth glut and the UK broadband wars, he's still surprisingly optimistic about the future.
- Introduction to Robot Operating System
Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open source modular robot middleware. It is used in many many Universities and research projects around the world, and is starting to move into industry as well.
This talk will provide an introduction to ROS, explaining what it is, how it works and some of the things it can do. There will also be a practical demonstration of a robot running ROS.
Nick Weldin initiated the first public Arduino course in the UK in 2005, because he didn't want to program PIC chips on the accounts computer at work after everyone else had gone home any more, and he couldn't get his boss to send him to the Arduino course that was running in Spain. When Tinker London started up he joined them and ran courses teaching Arduino wherever anyone was interested. He is co-author of the Arduino Cookbook and now works for Middlesex University.
- Risking a Compuserve of Things
More and more companies are staking a claim to be the platform for the Internet of Things. Should we be aiming for a more open Internet of Things? Is the platform for the Internet of Things not just the Internet? Adrian McEwen will be exploring some of the challenges in implementing the Internet of Things and suggesting ways to improve collaboration and interoperability.
Adrian McEwen has been connecting odd things to the Internet since the mid-90s. Starting with cash registers, and then as part of the team who were first to put a web browser onto a mobile phone. For the past five years he's been working with the Internet of Things.
Adrian founded MCQN Ltd, an IoT consultancy and product company, which is based in DoES Liverpool - a hybrid makerspace and office, which he set up with some friends. He's putting the finishing touches to a book — Designing the Internet of Things — and also working as CTO of start-up Good Night Lamp.
- Measuring Energy Consumption in Embedded Systems
Talk details TBC.
James Pallister is a graduate of the University of Bristol, where he achieved joint First Class Honours in Computer Science and Electronics. During the summer of 2012, he led Embecosm's research program into the impact of compilers on energy consumption in embedded systems, which was a development of James' work at the University of Bristol with the XMOS multi-core processor.
James returned to Bristol in October 2012, where he is studying for a PhD in low-power multi-core system design. He remains a Technical Advisor to Embecosm.
- Polling is for Wimps — Asynchronous Communications for the Internet of Things
They say that, if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a screw. Don't get me wrong, I love REST. It's great for posting data and one-off access. However, REST is not a good way for IoT actuators to get their instructions from a controlling system. aul will discuss his experiences with Sockets, XMPP and MQTT. One of which will usually be a good solution for most implementations.
In each case arguments for and against will be presented, in the context of systems that must operate in near real time with low power budgets. Relevant open source technologies will be referenced. For a case example we’ll use the MQTT system that Paul and Adrian Godwin have been building for an experimental, thermally-efficient new build home.
Paul Tanner is a consultant, developer and maker in wood, metal, plastic, electronics and software. His day job is IT-based business improvement for SMEs. By night he turns energy nut, creating tools to optimise energy use. Paul graduated in electronics and was responsible for hardware and software product development and customer services in several product and service start-ups, switching to consulting in 2000.
- A Basic Introduction to Interfacing for the Hardware Curious
So you've got a Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone and now you want to connect some hardware to it. You know basically what you want to do but you're are feeling a little bit lost in the jargon. What is a GPIO pin? What is an SPI or I2C bus? What is a shift register? How do I get more outputs than I have pins? How do chose the resistor for an LED? How do I read the value of a push switch? What does 3.3V tolerant mean?
This talk will look at the basics of hardware interfacing. It will describe the basics of the interfaces typical of embedded systems and how to approach programming them. It will discuss some very basic electronics theory that will be useful to the beginner hardware hacker. Finally it will give pointers as to where to look for further information.
Melanie Rhianna Lewis started a life long love of electronics as a child when her Dad helped her make a "crystal" radio with an ear piece, a coil of wire, a diode and a radiator! At the same time the home computer revolution started and she would lust after the "build your own computers" advertised in the electronics magazines of the time. She never got one but did end up the proud owner of a BBC Micro. Melanie learnt everything she could about the machine and including assembler, operating systems, drivers, interrupt, and, thanks to the circuit diagram in the Advanced User Guide, digital electronics. After the BBC Micro came the Acorn Archimedes and so started a long relationship with ARM processors. In the 90s Melanie became interested in Linux and then developed one of the first ARM Linux distributions running on an Acorn RISC PC. The hobby became a job and Melanie currently works for an embedded device consultancy near Bradford where a lot of her work is still with ARM processors.
* Compered by:
Gareth Halfacree is a freelance technology journalist and the co-author of the Raspberry Pi User Guide, alongside project co-founder Eben Upton. He also writes the maker-centric Hobby Tech column for Custom PC Magazine, as well as numerous features in magazines including PC Pro, Linux User & Developer, Micro Mart, Computeractive and others.
Formerly a system administrator working in the education sector, Gareth's passion for open source projects has followed him from one career to another and he can often be seen reviewing, documenting or even contributing to projects including GNU/Linux, LibreOffice, Fritzing and Arduino. He is also the creator of the Sleepduino and Burnduino open hardware projects and numerous small software tools, all released under permissive licences.
—— Sunday Workshops
Please feel free to bring along equipment and components provided that you are able to take full responsibility for your own personal safety and that of others. Common sense should be exercised!
- M2M with MQTT
Following on from the talk on asynchronous communications this session will provide the opportunity for people to get their hands dirty with MQTT.
We will have an installation of the Mosquitto micro-broker and a rules engine running on a Raspberry Pi. Dale Lane's MQTT client for Arduino is available, as are other implementations for low-power platforms.
Run by: Paul Tanner.
- Practical panStamp
This workshop will take participants through the process of programming a panStamp sensor board, and then setting up Lagarto open automation platform on a Raspberry Pi. Exercises will include pushing sensor data to the cloud and configuring the sending of alarms.
Run by: Dr Paolo Di Prodi.
- Persistence-of-vision with ShrimpingIt
Participants will create a persistence-of-vision project based around the Arduino-compatible, Shrimp. The perfect workshop for the hardware curious and crossover coders!
Dr Jeremy Bennett is the founder of Embecosm, and an expert on hardware modelling and embedded software development. Prior to founding Embecosm, Dr Bennett was Vice President of ARC International PLC and previously Vice President of Marconi PLC.
Simon Cook has a background in low-power processors, with a particular focus on the energy constraints of code running in embedded environments. He works for embedded systems consultancy, Embecosm, where he provides support for their work on low level binutils for both GNU and LLVM toolchains.
- Profiling Energy Consumption in Embedded Applications
Learn how to profile energy consumption in embedded applications, and have your Arduino or Raspberry Pi application energy consumption profiled. Further details TBC!
Run by: JamesPallister.
Soldering is Easy: Assembling the OSHCamp Kit
Workshop details TBC!
Note:
* This year there are separate tickets for the Saturday and Sunday. * Tickets will permit entry to all Wuthering Bytes sessions and not just OSHUG ones. * A light lunch and refreshments will be provided on both days. Please ensure that you make any dietary requirements clear when registering. * Please aim to arrive between 09:30 and 09:45 on the Saturday as the event will start at 10:00 prompt.
— Registration: http://oshug.org/event/oshcamp2013