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OpenBSD on the Pandaboard
by Sevan / Venture37 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20120711142958 Sevan

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OSHUG #20 — Drones (UDB4, OpenRelief, ARDrone + Kinect), Thurs 21st June.
by Andrew Back 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Hello, The next OSHUG meeting will be on Thursday 21st June. Details and registration link below. Regards, Andrew // OSHUG #20 — Drones (UDB4, OpenRelief, ARDrone + Kinect) On the 21st June 2012, 18:00 - 20:00 at Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG (51.529049, -0.116436) Sponsored by Embecosm: http://www.embecosm.com — Registration: http://oshug.org/event/20 Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are increasingly making the news, but when they do so it's usually because of their use in warfare. However, drones can be put to use in many other, far more positive applications. And at the twentieth OSHUG meeting we will hear talks on an experimental attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), using open source technology to build drones for use in disaster relief, and on a fun and novel method of flying drones via gesture control. - Using UDB4 for an Experimental AHRS The UAV Development Board is a very versatile development board that has been around for the past five or so years, and which has been supported by small team led by William Premerlani. The board comes with a dsPIC30F4011 microcontroller, an MMA7260 three axis accelerometer and two dual-axis Inversense IXZ500 gyroscopes. It has supported various forms of platforms ranging from inverted pendulums to multicoptors. It has primarily been a development platform for experimenters and it is in its fourth major revision. The talk intends to give a high level view of the MatrixPilot firmware as a general introduction to autopilots, with a demonstration of the Hardware in loop simulation to show how it behaves in flight for a fixed wing aircraft. Anish Mohammed has been an electronics hobbyist and software hacker since his early teens. He spent almost a decade in research and development in security and cryptography, and these days he works for the Big Five in consulting. He is a confirmed UAV addict who owns a dozen AHRS/Autopilots, both open and partially closed, with interests in multicopters, fixed wings and rovers. - OpenRelief — Open Source Software and Open Hardware For Frontline Disaster Relief This talk will explore how the OpenRelief team, inspired by challenges seen during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, is using Open Source Software and Open Hardware to create disaster relief tools. The first step is to develop a small drone that can take off from anywhere, recognize roads, people and smoke while also measuring weather and radiation. It can be built for less than 1,000 USD, and easily shares information with Open Source and proprietary disaster management systems. The goal is to gather critical information for relief workers on the ground, and contribute to getting aid where it is needed. Karl Lattimer is an engineer who started early with electronics and programming, and has worked on all kinds of projects for many companies developing software to solve a wide variety of problems. He currently works for Codethink Ltd, an engineering firm based in Manchester, UK. Karl is enthusiastic about Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Robotics and related engineering disciplines. He is a firm believer that we can engineer a future that is more sustainable, adaptive and integrated. His interest in OpenRelief stems from a desire to engineer solutions to the problems faced in disaster scenarios, and the desire to drive the permeation of robots into our everyday lives. - Flying an ARDrone Like a 7-year Old Child Controlling a Parrot ARDrone using URBI, python and an MS Kinect camera, allowing people to fly it by holding their arms out and pretending to be an airplane like a small child. This was in truth an exploration in how to couple independent projects and to explore and exploit the APIs presented by the kinect and the drone's software. Ben O'Steen is a freelance developer with an interest in the fuzzy divide between physical and digital spaces, such as how we perceive and use objects differently based on how they are (re)produced, presented or controlled. Currently, he can be found working on digital library and archive projects for academic institutions, art installations and his newly completed 3d printer. — Registration: http://oshug.org/event/20

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OSHCamp 2012 planning.
by Andrew Back 21 May '12

21 May '12

Hello, As many of you know the plan is to hold this year's OSHCamp in the north of England in Hebden Bridge, which is a pretty town (I might be biased!) in the foothills of the Pennines and roughly half way between Leeds and Manchester and easily accessible (<1 hour by train) from both. It will also be a two day event and will take place over a weekend, with provisional dates of 15th & 16th September. I've uploaded a few photos of the venue to Flickr (more/better ones to be uploaded in due course): http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrierdetect/7234510996/in/set-72157629815372… The venue also has a hostel on the site and I'll see if any sort of group booking deal can be arranged. http://www.hebdenbridgehostel.co.uk/ Of course there also hotels and guests houses, or should you wish you could even hire a canal boat. http://www.bronteboathire.co.uk/ Although this might be a bit of a waste if you're only returning to sleep on it... I think the plan will be to host talks on the Saturday, with hands-on sessions on the Sunday. But obviously I'm keen to hear any suggestions that people might have as to the structure, as well as themes and talk topics. And as always, offers to present or run a workshop are most welcome. Discuss here or e-mail me direct — whichever suits. I'll provide updates to this list as and when plans develop. Best, Andrew

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open source airborne wind generator
by Rod Read 18 May '12

18 May '12

I've got a fancy kite design. It's proving to be pretty useful. I've done loads of online research and would like to give something back with the design being Open Source. Cern license the best one for me? Rod Read http://kitepowercoop.org http://www.youtube.com/user/roddyread <http://www.roddys-photos.com>roderickread (skype)

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OSHUG #19 — Kits (Homesense, Quick2Wire), Thursday 31st May 2012.
by Andrew Back 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hello, Registration for OSHUG #19 is now open, details below. Best, Andrew // OSHUG #19 — Kits (Homesense, Quick2Wire) 31st May 2012, 18:00 - 20:00 at Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG, [map] (51.529049, -0.116436) Sponsored by DesignSpark: http://www.designspark.com/ — Registration: http://oshug.org/event/19 For those that are new to hardware development it can prove a daunting prospect, and kits that address the needs of those with little or no experience in this area have a vital role to play. At the nineteenth OSHUG meeting we will be hearing about two such kits, one that was designed to support user-led smart home innovation and that was based around the Arduino platform, and an experimenters kit for the Raspberry Pi that is currently in development. - The Homesense Project The Homesense project was a European user-led, smart-home development project employing open source hardware. The project was led by Tinker London and EDF and engaged households supported by local experts in the design and development of smart home concepts. The project was developed as a reaction to top-down design approaches commonly observed in technological development and home building. Most early research viewed smart homes as a single complex system that is designed and constructed from the ground up, and assumes that most aspects (physical building, digital infrastructure, furniture, appliances) are under the control of a single smart-home developer. (Kortuem et al. 2010) In the contrasting reality however of multi-vendor development and retrofitting this is rarely the case. Inspired also by an argument that smart homes are developed by experts in a top down approach subsequently living with a smart home is acknowledged to be problematic to non-experts who lack control over respective technologies. The Homesense project was therefore designed to enable user-led innovation within the home environment, building alongside existing environmental and social conditions allowing end-users to address their own concerns in their physical and ‘lived in’ space. Homesense sought to bring the open collaboration methods of online communities to physical infrastructures in the home. Designing a toolkit to support this approach is explored as a topic of this presentation. Natasha Carolan is a PhD student at HighWire Doctoral Training Centre, Lancaster University where her research considers commodification of design and production processes in the digital economy. A product designer by background, her research explores open and user innovation, service design and value co-creation in areas of NPD and manufacturing. Natasha co-designed the Homesense toolkit by situating the toolkit as a cultural probe a strategy that Natasha believes is important in placing open source hardware in a democratic system as a tool for learning and empowerment. - Quick2Wire Quick2Wire Limited is a start-up that is developing a range of OSH/OSS add-on products for the Raspberry Pi. The first product is an experimenter's kit, contaning an expansion board, a set of components with which to experiment, software to drive the Pi, and an instruction manual. This will be followed by a series of expansion kits, using I2C and SPI to add capabilities like ADC, DAC, PWM and stepper motor drivers. All the hardware and software will be released under open source licences. The presentation will conclude with a demonstration using hardware prototypes driven by a Raspberry Pi. Romilly Cocking spent the ten years before his 'retirement' as an agile software developer, coach and trainer. He spent the first two years of retirement experimenting with robotics. Then Raspberry Pi came along, and now Romilly works full-time running Quick2Wire. Note: Please aim to arrive for 18:00 - 18:20 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt. — Registration: http://oshug.org/event/19

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MusicTechFest 17-19 May in London
by Nils Hitze 08 May '12

08 May '12

Hi there, i am new to this group (and based in Munich, Germany not London) but nevertheless a friend of mine is organizing an event in London that you might find interesting: http://www.musictechfest.org/#register A three day, free Music Hack Day/TechFest. Be fast, there might still be some tickets left Kind Regards Nils -- Nils Hitze Email: nhitze(a)gmail.com Mobil: +49 179 9429701 Blog: silberkind.de <http://www.silberkind.de> G+: silberkind.de/+ Twitter: @kojote <http://twitter.com/kojote>

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Wikipedia entry for OSHUG
by Jeremy Bennett 04 May '12

04 May '12

I have created a stub Wikipedia entry for OSHUG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSHUG Perhaps others would like to expand this. More information on the origins, and a list of meetings would be useful. Best wishes, Jeremy -- Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Email: jeremy.bennett(a)embecosm.com Web: www.embecosm.com

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Microsoft infiltrating the Cabinet Office Open Source consultation
by Jeremy Bennett 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

It seems big business will try anything to stop government's supporting open source. This government announcement is of interest - not least because of them doing the right thing about it! http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/04/26/open-standards-consultation-… Although we are an open source hardware group, many members overlap into the open source software world. You may like to respond to the consultation and your MP. Best wishes, Jeremy -- Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Email: jeremy.bennett(a)embecosm.com Web: www.embecosm.com

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Modular OpenChronos firmware
by Sevan / Venture37 22 Apr '12

22 Apr '12

Hiya, The OpenChronos devs have announced a modular firmware for the Ti EZ430 watches, details on whats new & how to obtain the code are covered here: http://groups.google.com/group/openchronos/browse_thread/thread/5ba4b073ea5… Sevan

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London Raspberry Pi Meetup, Thursday 26th April.
by Andrew Back 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Hello, Those attending OSHUG #18 next Thursday evening may be interested in coming along to an informal Raspberry Pi meetup that is being hosted by C4CC earlier the same day. Details pasted below. Cheers, Andrew // London Raspberry Pi Meetup #01 On the 26th April 2012, 15:00 - 17:30 at Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG (51.529049, -0.116436) * Do you have a Raspberry Pi? * Perhaps you have a Raspberry Pi-based project in mind. * Or you would just like to find out more... The people behind OSHUG, and DesignSpark and the Centre for Creative Collaboration invite you to the first London Raspberry Pi meetup. Come along and meet other RasPi users and enthusiasts, share experiences and demo projects. Should we organise regular meetings or workshops? Here is an opportunity to get involved with shaping future events! Note: this will be an informal meetup with no particular structure or presentations, and so please set your expectations accordingly. - Registration: http://londonraspi01.eventbrite.co.uk/ //

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