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Arduino compatible FPGA shield on Kickstarter
by Roy Bunce 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Hi, You might be interested in my project recently launched on Kickstarter,com (short URL http://kck.st/164ObLg ) . It uses a MACHXO2-1200 from Lattice, and includes USB programming logic, so no external programmer is required. It's a relatively simple board, aimed at beginners, and will be supplied ready programmed with a I2C driven I/O expander. The associated web site will include tutorials to explain how to download and use the free Lattice design tools, as well as giving some simple design examples. By following these examples, the new FPGA user will be able to gain confidence and experience by modifying known working VHDL/Verilog code. The schematic and pcb design is in DesignSpark format, and will be released if the Kickstarter project is fully funded. Thanks for reading this, Regards, Roy Bunce

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OSHUG #27 — Boards (Beautifully Functional Circuits, Little Printer), Thursday 20th June.
by Andrew Back 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Hello, Registration is now open for the June OSHUG meeting, details of which are below. Cheers, Andrew // Event #27 — Boards (Beautifully Functional Circuits, Little Printer) Thursday 20th June 2013, 18:00 - 20:00 at Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG. Sponsored by SolderPad: http://solderpad.com Registration: http://oshug.org/event/27 At the twenty-seventh meeting there will be a talk on designing printed circuit boards that are aesthetically pleasing as well as functional, and a talk on the design and manufacture of the Little Printer, and the upcoming BERG Cloud dev board. - Beautifully Functional Circuits Circuit design is typically thought of as block-based and purely functional; it doesn't necessarily have to be. Our inherent creativity as engineers has been dampened by unimaginative and limiting design tools, that have forced us to "forget" that functional circuits can, and should, be beautiful too. This talk will explore these limitations and how we could do better. Saar Drimer is an experienced hardware engineer. In the past few years he's been developing tools for effective and efficient hardware design. - Little Printer In 2012 the design and product company BERG launched Little Printer, their internet-connected thermal printer that prints its own face. It was the first consumer product that BERG had made, and went on to be nominated for the 2013 Designs of the Year by the Design Museum. In this talk we will explore the project's evolution, from prototype to mass produced product. The talk will cover the way BERG's design process works, going to China to organise plastic injection moulding, passing certification and EMC, and many other practical aspects of making and selling consumer products that connect online. The talk will also cover a technical overview of the whole stack that brings Little Printer to life, the extraction and evolution of the underlying BERG Cloud platform, and the forthcoming developer kits that open up the platform to anybody. Nick Ludlam is CTO at BERG, and is responsible for the collective software development, from the embedded code running inside Little Printer, the Ruby/Rails-based cloud architecture, and the use of Amazon Web Services to scale. Andy Huntington is Hardware Producer & Designer at BERG and is responsible for all of BERG's physical hardware, from the electronics and PCBs to the industrial design and manufacturing of Little Printer itself. He has a background in music and moved through software into hardware following an Interaction Design MA at the Royal College of Art. Note: Please aim to arrive for 18:00 - 18:20 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/27

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Contiki link
by Ilya Dmitrichenko 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hey everyone, Here are some links as promissed! Please do let me know if I forgot anything. Thingsquare Code: http://thingsquare.com/code/ Redwire dev boards: - info https://github.com/malvira/libmc1322x/wiki/hardware - web store: http://www.redwirellc.com/store - for european distributor try these guys: http://www.oflabs.com/#/redwire-econotag/ - Flexibity: http://www.flexibity.com/ There is also this one that I forgot to mention, it's an module for RPi: https://github.com/Noolitic/Nooliberry/wiki/Full-Documentation There many more devices out there, such as the Z1: www.zolertia.com/ti And more interesting ones are coming as Thingsquare partners with chip vendors. Personally, I'm looking forward the sub-GHz radios from TI. http://thingsquare.com/mist/#platforms For a C64/128, Atari and Apple ][ disk images: http://www.a2retrosystems.com/contiki.html Cheers, -- Ilya

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London Arduino Jam + video circuit bending - 13th May
by marc barto 06 May '13

06 May '13

Hi all We're back for another evening of presentations and informal discussions around Arduino at the Hub Westminster on 13th May.<http://www.meetup.com/LondonArduino/events/114960302/> With our usual programme of project demos, news and jam, we'll also have our friend Fabrizio presenting some video circuit bending devices built during a recent workshop at London Hackspace. Not exactly Arduino stuff as the devices (video mixer and others) are from the 80's but still very much hardware hacking! (more info here<https://www.facebook.com/events/132142510308604/> ). The event is of course free, all info here: http://www.meetup.com/LondonArduino/events/114960302/ Hope you can join us Marc @marc_in_london <https://twitter.com/marc_in_london>

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Electromagnetic Wave Event & Whitespace Spectrum
by Ben Ward 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

Hello OSHUGgers, I hope this is an acceptable announcement for this list. Electromagnetic Wave (May 5th) is a day filled with talks and workshops for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things, held on a converted East German fishing vessel moored in London. https://www.emfcamp.org/wave Talks so far include Zeppelins, Wifi radar, open-source vacuum cleaners and WebGL. As part of the team getting Internet to the boat (harder than you might imagine) I've also managed to get a TV Whitespace licence for experimenting. Whitespace will soon be open for us all to use, and is particularly interesting for the Internet of Things. As the country's (world's?) first "popup" whitespace network what we're looking for is experiments, interested people, Internet of Things ideas or skills. Read more about it here: http://love-hz.com/post/48999576581/emw-event Hope you can join us or even just offer ideas Ben -- ben(a)crouchingbadger.com | h <http://www.crouchingbadger.com/>ttp:// love-hz.com

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Save the date!
by Andrew Back 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hello, So this year's annual two day event will again take place in Hebden Bridge, and over the weekend of 14th and 15th September. We're aiming to do something bigger this time, that will have hardware and web tracks, and with a theme of "making things". So, stories about making hardware or a web thing, and mostly from an end-to-end perspective. Some talks will be on projects that combine web/online and hardware too. We'll be taking over most of the Town Hall [1] for the entire weekend with, as before talks on the Saturday and workshops on the Sunday. We'll have 2, possibly 3, spaces to use on the Saturday, and 2 on the Sunday. With one of these being the very lovely Waterfront Hall. There will be a social on the Saturday evening, also at the Town Hall, and if the weather is good we might even have a marquee out on the patio that overlooks the river. Cheers, Andrew [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/aug/13/hebden-bridge-town-…

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OSHUG #26 — Sensor Networks (Contiki, Low Power Wireless, quick2link), Thursday 16th May.
by Andrew Back 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hello, Registration is now open for the May meeting, with details and a link to registration below. Cheers, Andrew // OSHUG #26 — Sensor Networks (Contiki, Low Power Wireless Sensors, quick2link) Thursday 16th May 2013, 18:00 - 20:00 at Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG. Sponsored by SK Pang Electronics: http://www.skpang.co.uk Registration: http://oshug.org/event/26 At the twenty-sixth meeting we will have talks on Contiki, the open source operating system for the Internet of Things, low power wireless sensors and quick2link, a protocol for distributed sensor/actuator networks. — An Introduction to the Contiki O/S This talk aims to introduce the Contiki OS and some of the development hardware that is used with it. We will learn about the process of bootstrapping the development environment and there will be a hands-on tutorial. Ilya Dmitrichenko was born in Soviet Latvia in 1985, grew up and attended a secondary school there, and moved to UK as soon as Latvia joined the EU. He attended the biggest university in London and was rather disappointed with the education, but nevertheless carried on and had fun working on a final year engineering project which served as an introduction to the topic of this talk. Ilya is interested in various aspects of hardware and software, spanning from WSN to DSP and several other random fields. * Note that this talk was originally scheduled for OSHUG #15. — Low Power Wireless Sensors around the Home Have you ever wondered how much electricity the kettle used this week, what effect installing that loft insulation had on the temperature of the living room, or how humid the loft is? Small low power wireless nodes make it very easy to deploy a network of sensors to monitor, for example, electrical power, temperature and humidity around the home or office. This talk will give practical examples of connecting low power wireless sensor nodes to the Web using RFM12B/SRF/XRF 433MHz/868MHz wireless modules, Arduino-based hardware and firmware, and a Raspberry Pi base station running the Emoncmsopen-source web-application to log, process and visualise the data. Experience will be drawn from OpenEnergyMonitor, a project to develop open source energy monitoring tools to help us relate to our use of energy, energy systems and the challenge of sustainable energy. Glyn Hudson is a hardware developer for the OpenEnergyMonitor project. Together with Trystan Lea he runs the OpenEnergyMonitor website and online shop. Glyn has a passion for open hardware, sustainable energy and rock climbing… in no particular order! — quick2link quick2link is a very simple, extensible protocol for controlling distributed sensor/actuator networks. Inspired by Ward Cunningham's txtzyme project, it grew out of the needs of C3Pi — an experimental robot. However, it's equally applicable to environmental monitoring applications. The current implementation uses a Raspberry Pi controlling Arduino-based slaves but the architecture and much of the code are hardware-independent. 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/26

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Re: [oshug] oshug Digest, Vol 36, Issue 2
by Mark.itto 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:00 PM, <oshug-request(a)oshug.org> wrote: > Send oshug mailing list submissions to > oshug(a)oshug.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://oshug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oshug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > oshug-request(a)oshug.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > oshug-owner(a)oshug.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of oshug digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. ChipHack (Mark.itto) > 2. Re: ChipHack (Andrew Back) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:34:45 +0100 > From: "Mark.itto" <maco1717(a)gmail.com> > To: oshug(a)oshug.org > Subject: [oshug] ChipHack > Message-ID: > <CADB-D=Pc=ejDcqdB=Qo-ze7mvK-ZVRUMO__a5UOoL4cv_gXtfA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, I'm attending this workshop and was wondering if you would > recommendme to bring any particular software already installed besides > the Altera Quartus. > > I'm running Windows 7 64b. > > And have the basic Notepad++, Strawberry, Emacs, Icarus Verilog. > > Dont know if you recommend me anything else to have ready for then or > you just let us know when we get there. > > Really excited about this ChipHack workshop! > > Thanks c'ya soon. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:46:41 +0100 > From: Andrew Back <arback(a)computer.org> > To: Open Source Hardware User Group Discussion List <oshug(a)oshug.org> > Subject: Re: [oshug] ChipHack > Message-ID: > <CADj1OPB4b8PwFwU51=+BDJxMTQKuqBbkt8mr-Avx_ychXA+cJA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Mark, > > On 11 April 2013 12:34, Mark.itto <maco1717(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, I'm attending this workshop and was wondering if you would >> recommendme to bring any particular software already installed besides >> the Altera Quartus. > > It's not technically an OSHUG event, but most if not all of the folks > involved are probably also on this list :o) I actually knew it wasn't an OSHUG thing because it's not on the OSHUG.org web page as an event so i just didnt think when I sent the email trough here to be honest sorry for that. > >> I'm running Windows 7 64b. >> >> And have the basic Notepad++, Strawberry, Emacs, Icarus Verilog. >> >> Dont know if you recommend me anything else to have ready for then or >> you just let us know when we get there. > > It has been suggested that people should also pre-install ModelSim, > along with the latest version of Quartus. We'll send an e-mail out > with further details to everyone who has registered, either tomorrow > or early next week. > I installed Quartus with ModelSim which apparently dont know why i forgot to put in the list of the software I have. >> Really excited about this ChipHack workshop! > > Great, we're all really looking forward to it too! It should hopefully > be a fun and worthwhile weekend. > > Best, > > Andrew > > Thanks four your reply. Regards. Marco P. > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > oshug mailing list > oshug(a)oshug.org > http://oshug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oshug > > > End of oshug Digest, Vol 36, Issue 2 > ************************************

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ChipHack
by Mark.itto 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi, I'm attending this workshop and was wondering if you would recommendme to bring any particular software already installed besides the Altera Quartus. I'm running Windows 7 64b. And have the basic Notepad++, Strawberry, Emacs, Icarus Verilog. Dont know if you recommend me anything else to have ready for then or you just let us know when we get there. Really excited about this ChipHack workshop! Thanks c'ya soon.

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Open Hardware Toolchain Survey
by Matt Maier 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Greetings, It seems safe to assume that all of you are already familiar with the need to publicly document a project in order for it to qualify as open. The best method of doing that, however, is open for discussion and/or development. The Open Hardware Toolchain Survey is an attempt to uncover a basic list of user/developer requirements that can be contributed to the documentation discussion and, ultimately, lead to a new generation of collaboration tools. I would like to personally ask you to take 10-15 minutes to add your perspective <http://www.wareium.com/home/survey> and/or pass this request along to anyone you think might be interested. The compiled results of the survey will be made available and will also be used at the OSHWA's DocJam. Thank you for your time and attention, Matthew Maier wareium <http://www.wareium.com/> openalia <http://www.openalia.wordpress.com/> printthat <http://www.printthat.wordpress.com/>

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