Hi all
I thought this might interest some of you in the OSHUG community as we had
lots of electronics exhibits last year, from Arduino/Rpis based projects to
custom boards.
Happy to discuss details if interested, all info below.
cheers
Marc
@marc_in_london <https://twitter.com/marc_in_london>
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*Call for Makers - Makers Area 2014 at Sandown Park*
The Makers Area is back at the Model Engineer Exhibition. Our first edition
was a a great success with over 2,000 people attending the 3 day long event
to discover amazing DIY creations by the 30 makers taking part. If you want
to see what happened last year, have a peek at our photo gallery!
<https://www.flickr.com/groups/2401543@N25/>
*About me*
I run various Makers and open hardware groups in London (London Arduino,
Not Just Arduino) and also co-organise the Mini Maker Faire in London.
*Makers Area at MEX*
This event involves hundreds of stands with the whole community of
modellers, tinkerers, hobbyists (there is a locomotive coming from
Australia...) and some of the best engineers in the UK.
We will have a large dedicated area for 3D
Scanning/Printing/Craft/Coding/Electronics (and more).
*When / where?*
This will take place on *12-**14 December in Esher, Surrey (25min outside
London) *here is the link:
http://www.modelengineershow.co.uk/makersshow
If you want to see what happened last year, have a peek at our photo
gallery! <https://www.flickr.com/groups/2401543@N25/>
Any question get in touch!
Hi,
Some of you may remember Yann presenting the milkymyst project a couple of years back at OSHUG, Yann has just been awarded a NetBSD commit bit for the work he has done on porting NetBSD to that architecture :)
Sevan
Hi everyone,
I have been working on a project that I would like to share with you.
Some time ago I noticed that it was really hard to use NFC on embedded
prototyping platforms (mbed, Arduino, etc) because of the lack of software
available.
Because of this I started developing a NFC library for embedded devices
that supports tag reading, tag emulation and peer-to-peer (SNEP/Android
beam) and it now works pretty well!
To complete the development and make it available I am currently running a
campaign for an open-source NFC development board which is mbed enabled
(there is an ARM Cortex-M0 onboard you can reprogram using the mbed.org
online platform). The board will be OSHW and I will open-source the NFC
library as well.
There is 48 hours left on the campaign that you can find here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/donatien-garnier/micronfcboard-easy-nf…
Sorry for the bit of self-promotion but I really think this could be
valuable to some of you!
Cheers,
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Don
Hello,
Just to let folks know that another talk has been added to the
programme for this year's OSHCamp: an introduction to Baserock, a
system for building custom embedded Linux distros directly from git,
closely tracking the upstream projects and without packaging.
"Baserock is a new set of open source tools for creating "appliance"
operating system images. The aim is to close the gap between source
code repositories and the code running on a device. This talk will go
over Baserock's philosophy, what it provides and how you can try it
out today.
Sam Thursfield likes it when technology is surprising in a good way
but does not like it when it is surprising in a bad way. He spends a
lot of time trying to reduce the amount of code that is required to do
things. He has been known to play the trombone in and around
Manchester."
— http://oshug.org/event/oshcamp2014
Looking forward to find out more!
Cheers,
Andrew
Hi List,
In the past few week I have got slightly involved with one project that
some of you might appreciate. I suppose that some of you Amy have heard of
a recently developed Rust programming language by Mozilla foundation. It's
primarily aims are to reduce safety critical errors at compiler level and
provide simple abstractions to the programmer normally seen in higher level
languages, such as Ruby and Python, yet being a systems language that may
potentially be used for an OS implementation instead of aging suspects.
I do find Rust a pretty amazing language, and indeed, building on years of
compiler practice, it has the real potential of becoming the next big
affair of many embedded systems engineers. It doesn't, however, introduce a
big overhead in code execution.
The particular project that I have spent some time with is titled Zinc. It
aims to implement an RTOS-like system that is capable of running on
bare-metal microcontroller chips. Please check it out and drop any feedback
to myself or as a question on the mailing list.
http://zinc.rshttp://rust-lang.org
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Ilya
Hi,
Rumour has it that if you visit the Element14 icecream stand at
Towerbridge between 1:30 and 3pm and ask for "ExtraRaspberry" you'll get
a Raspberry Pi B+ with your icecream.
Regards,
@ndy
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andyjpb(a)ashurst.eu.org
http://www.ashurst.eu.org/
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