oshug March 2015

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New kindle book on open source hardware
by girish m 28 Mar '15

28 Mar '15

Hi All, Please check out the new kindle book on open source hardware and provide your feedback. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T6JXDCS Thanks,Girish

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Events
by Mark.itto 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Hi, i went to the event 39 Id like to know where can i find the presentations? are they put online? id be very interested on seeing this again. kind regards. M

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OSHUG #40 — Hackerspace/makerspace/fablab panel discussion, Thursday 16th April.
by Andrew Back 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Hello, Registration is now open for the April meeting, details of which can be found below. Cheers, Andrew // Event #40 — Hackerspace/makerspace/fablab panel discussion 16 April 2015, 17:30 - 20:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London,WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/40 For the fourtieth meeting we will be hosting a panel discussion which will explore the organisation, operation, challenges and benefits of creative spaces known as hackerspaces, makerspaces and fablabs. There will be representatives from Makespace Cambridge, South London Makerspace, So Make It (Southampton), Fab Lab London, London Hackspace and the UK's innovation agency, Innovate UK. — Makespace Cambridge Dr Laura James is co-founder and Director of Makespace Cambridge, a non-profit community inventing shed and hackspace. She is currently consulting on a variety of technology and innovation activities. Laura has worked in technology and leadership roles in a wide variety of organisations. After R&D work at AT&T Labs in both Menlo Park and Cambridge, Laura developed high speed optical networks with Intel Research for her PhD. She was the first employee and VP Engineering at AlertMe.com, developing an easy to use innovative connected home platform and security system. At True Knowledge, Laura was part of the senior management team leading the company through a pivot, to apply their unique semantic technology to next generation search, creating Evi, a revolutionary conversational search app. Laura has also worked as Chief Operating Officer at CARET, a dynamic innovation department of the University of Cambridge, developing open source systems to support teaching and research. Most recently, Laura was CEO of Open Knowledge, a civil society organisation dedicated to opening up knowledge to empower people. Laura is an advisor to Open Knowledge, Product Health, Good Night Lamp, and the ContentMine. Laura holds Masters and PhD degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, received the Royal Academy of Engineering Leadership Award and a NESTA Crucible Fellowship, and is a Chartered Engineer. — South London Makerspace Tom Lynch is a Designer/Maker based in London, after completing his MA at the Royal College of Art he went on to start Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire at the London College of Communication where he now works as a Physical Computing Specialist Technician. Living in South London, Tom is a founder and trustee of South London Makerspace, a social, community workshop in Herne Hill. — So Make It Jem Gillam is an iOS programmer turned stay at home mum, and a trustee at So Make It. She has always had an interest in programming and hardware hacking, her first projects involving circuit bending and wearable electronics. Her current project is working with a large team to build a life size remote control Dalek, which meant finally learning to use the power tools at the makerspace! — Fab Lab London Tony Fish is co-founder of Fab Lab London, investor, entrepreneur and an author with a background in electronics, computing and design. — London Hackspace Jonty Wareing is co-founder and trustee of London Hackspace, and co-founder of Electromagnetic Field. He is currently hacking on IRC Cloud after three years at Lumi, and five years at Last.fm. — Innovate UK Nikos Pronios is Lead Technologist for Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) at Innovate UK which he joined in early 2014. He has a diverse background in the ICT sector with experience in US and Europe, both in the industry and academia. After obtaining his PhD from the University of Southern California, he worked for Bell Communication Research in New Jersey, before moving to INTRACOM in Greece. Nikos has worked in various industry positions covering before moving to INTRACOM in Greece. Nikos has worked in various industry positions covering civilian and defence sectors, and he is currently using his diverse experience of more than 20 years to help organisations innovate and compete. — Chaired by: Dr Jeremy Bennett is Founder and CEO of Embecosm, an open source compiler and silicon chip modeling consultancy, that are a strong supporter of the makerspace movement as sponsor of So Make It, Chip Hack and regular workshops that serve to introduce people to embedded computing. Note: Please aim to arrive by 18:15 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt. //

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Open Source Hardware projects in Google Summer of Code
by Alex Bradbury 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Hi all, Student applications are now open for Google Summer of Code <http://google-opensource.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/gsoc-2015-student-applicati…>. This gives the opportunity for selected students to get paid a $5500 stipend to work on open source projects over the summer. The lowRISC project to produce a fully open-source System-on-Chip was fortunate enough to be accepted as a mentoring organisation, working in collaboration with a number of our friends in the wider open source software and hardware community. We have project ideas covering pretty much every part of the hardware/software stack <http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/gsoc-2015-ideas/> with a wide range of implementation languages (there's more opportunity to write JavaScript than you might expect for a hardware-focused project!). Projects include extending Cocotb (showcased at a a previous OSHUG), implementing place and route for the reverse engineered iCE40 FPGA to produce a fully open source compilation flow, using tagged memory in LLVM, and much more. You may remember I gave a talk about lowRISC at a previous OSHUG meeting. I'd really appreciate any help in spreading the word to students who might be interested. More information about GSoC is available at <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015>. Other participating mentoring organisations that may be of interest to oshuggers are: * BeagleBoard http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/beagleboard * MinnowBoard http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/minnowboard * Openwall (has a few FPGA-based projects) http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/openwall Best, Alex

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BBC Micro Bit
by Andy Bennett 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31834927 Regards, @ndy -- andyjpb(a)ashurst.eu.org http://www.ashurst.eu.org/ 0290 DA75 E982 7D99 A51F E46A 387A 7695 7EBA 75FF

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3rd wireless related talk for next week.
by Andrew Back 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

Hello, Unfortunately, Will and Miles from Wireless Things are now unable to present at next week's meeting, which means we have a spare slot. Anyone have a wireless related talk they would like to give? Needn't be long — even just a 5 min talk would be fine. Cheers, Andrew

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Energy Efficient Computing Workshop, 11 March 2015, Manchester
by Jeremy Bennett 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

Hi all, The InnovateUK Energy Efficient Computing Group is running a two day conference and workshop at the Manchester Museum of Science & Industry. Both the conference (10 March) and workshop (11 March) are free to attend. https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/eec/events OSHUG members may be particularly interested in the workshop Embecosm is running using the open source Crazyflie 2.0 quadcopter. We'll be trying to improve the efficiency of flying this design, using the MAGEEC energy measurement board (an open hardware design). Best wishes, Jeremy -- Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Twitter: @jeremypbennett Email: jeremy.bennett(a)embecosm.com Web: www.embecosm.com PGP key: 1024D/FB4754E1 2009-03-20

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South London Makerspace.
by Andrew Back 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

Hello, Anyone on the list involved with, or have a contact at, South London Makerspace? I seem to recall speaking with someone about this, but forget who! Cheers, Andrew

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