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OSHUG #34 — Teaching, Wednesday 21st May.
by Andrew Back 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hello, Registration is now open for the meeting May meeting, which is in just over 2 weeks time and will be on a Wednesday this month. Cheers, Andrew // Event #34 — 21st May 2014, 17:30 - 20:30 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/34 The thirty-fourth OSHUG meeting will feature three talks that each explore approaches to teaching electronics and programming. — Teaching with the LilyPad Arduino In this talk we will hear about experiences of teaching basic electronics and coding principles via wearable technology and e-textiles, using the LilyPad Arduino — a sewable microcontroller — in workshops with people of all ages at universities, schools at hackspaces. Rain Ashford designs and constructs wearable technology, e-textiles and interactive artworks. A PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, where she is investigating the possibility that wearable technology can be used to augment new forms of non-verbal communication, particularly in the areas of body language and emotion, by the amplifying and visualising of physiological data. She has studied Fine Art, Multimedia, and Electronics Engineering, which has led to her work developing as a convergence of art, programming and electronics. — Raspberry Pi in education Challenges, benefits and experiences with the Raspberry Pi as an educational tool. Matt Venn has run hundreds of creative science workshops for thousands of children and adults around the world. For the last year, he has been working with teachers in preparation for the computer science curriculum changes; creating and leading courses, workshops and projects. When he's not inventing new ways of getting people excited about science, Matthew plays music, invents puzzle boxes, practices martial arts and maintains bikes. — MzTEK: festivals, workshops and take away technologies MzTEK is a non-profit organisation that aims to redress the imbalance of women artists working in the fields of new media, computer arts, electronics and technology. Based in London and supported by Hackney arts institution [ space ], and Centre for Creative Collaboration in Kings Cross, and hosting a range of workshops, talks and self-initiated tinker sessions. In collaboration with partner organisations, MzTEK develop interesting, accessible and curiosity igniting workshops that can be delivered in short time frames and engage a wide audience with varying skills. Working with open source technologies and tools to help ensure that participants continue making and tinkering with the technologies they encounter long after workshops. Furthermore, doing this at festivals and events where the hope is to encounter a broad range of participants and unpredictable work environments! This talk will discuss some previous projects such as the Hacked Human Orchestra, a wearable electronics project devised in collaboration with Guerrilla Science, and suggest ways that thematic focus, together with a well balanced combination of skill acquisition, creativity and fun can enhance workshop delivery. Shauna Concannon is an interdisciplinary researcher interested in communication spaces and constructive disagreement. She has been working with MzTEK for the past few years, developing and facilitating workshops in Processing, Arduino and wearable electronics. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Media and Arts Technology at Queen Mary University of London. Note: Please aim to by 18:15 as the first talk will start at 18:30 prompt.

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Open-source verification
by Chris Higgs 04 May '14

04 May '14

All, I would like to present on the topic "Cocotb" at a future OSHUG event. Cocotb[1] is an open-source Python framework for verifying RTL written in [System]Verilog or VHDL. It has been used to successfully verify multiple large FPGA designs (>500k registers). It also serves to bridge the gap between traditional FPGA/ASIC practices and software developers, as well as helping to introduce agile methodology and continuous integration to hardware teams. Cocotb works well with Icarus Verilog, providing a powerful open-source alternative to SystemVerilog based verification frameworks like UVM which require users to spend many thousands of pounds on simulator licenses. For those wishing to use SystemVerilog without paying for a license it can also be used with the free version of Mentor Modelsim (Altera Starter Edition). A presentation would be a good follow-up to the up-coming ChipHack event to demonstrate one of the possible ways of verifying more complex designs for those wishing to pursue FPGA development further. Depending on the experience and interests of the audience I can present different aspects of Cocotb, e.g. how the framework was designed, co-simulating unmodified software, interacting with the outside world from simulation, SoC driver development, lessons learned etc. Thanks, Chris [1] http://potentialventures.github.io/cocotb/

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Novena
by Sevan / Venture37 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Open source laptop http://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop >From the guys who did the hacking SD cards talk at CCC last year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3GDPwIuRKI Sevan

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by 李正义 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

李正义中南民族大学/老师武汉市洪山区民族大道182号

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10A rated 5.5mm / 2.5mm DC barrel connector?
by Andrew Back 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

Hello, I'm having difficulty sourcing barrel connector sockets rated at >5A, which is bizarre as numerous reputable suppliers sell 12V/10A desktop PSUs that terminate in a 5.5mm OD / 2.5mm ID barrel plug. Yet, no matter how much searching I do I can only seem to turn up 2.5A rated sockets and, at a push, 5A rated. Grateful for any suggestions or insights anyone can offer here... Cheers, Andrew

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OSHUG #33 -- Radio Pt.2 (Networking Literacy Project, Everyone has a radio in them)
by Andrew Back 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hello, Registration is now open for the April meeting. Details below. Cheers, Andrew // Event #33 -- Radio Pt.2 (Networking Literacy Project, Everyone has a radio in them) Thursday 24th April 2014, 17:30 - 20:30 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/33 The thirty-third OSHUG meeting will be the second on the theme of radio, with talks on a bold vision for a project that aims to increase understanding of personal networking, and on a toolkit that lets you build your own physical Internet radio. -- The Networking Literacy Project "Beep-BEEP!" - Some of us will remember the distinctive click when throwing the power switch of a BBC Micro, and the immediate gratifying sounds it made. Thirty years ago, public awareness of personal computing was low, and civil society acted to raise literacy in anticipation of the coming boom. Today, computers are pervasive in everyday life, and their function is increasingly to deliver distributed computing applications. Indeed, we are on the cusp of another era of personal technological progress and growth, this time for personal networking. Understanding and literacy about this is low, while importance and opportunity are high. This talk will explore some of the learning opportunities, and how the technology community could contribute to eliminating the widespread functional illiteracy in this important area of technology. Martin Geddes is an authority on the future of the telecoms industry, ranging from emerging business models to new network technologies. He is a futurologist, writer, speaker, consultant, and technologist. Martin is currently writing a book, The Internet is Just a Prototype, on the future of distributed computing. -- Everyone has a radio in them, it turns out Inspired by the challenge of making a physical radio device that did anything interesting and web friendly, a small team within BBC R&D spent a few days building an Archers Avoider using off the shelf components and free software alongside BBC created custom services for controlling audio IP streams. "Radiodan" is now at v2.0 and consists of open source web-developer-friendly software designed to work on a Raspberry Pi, used for controlling audio streams, getting a device on a wifi network, and controlling buttons, dials and leds, plus a kit of parts, a case and some instructions. This talk will take a look at some of Radiodan's technology, in the context of our goal of making it something that anyone can start to build a radio with. It will also explore why it's important and interesting to widen the pool of people who can make radios, and how a new field for us has changed the way we work. Libby Miller is a producer and developer working in the BBC R&D Central Lab. She currently works on Radiodan, a project about cheap, rapid prototyping for radios. She also works on the VistaTV EU project on the use and visualisation of real-time IPTV statistics, and the MediaScape project, which is about developer-friendly standards for connected devices. Before that, she led the BBC's part of NoTube, including work on APIs to TV for second screens, resolution of broadcast metadata to web metadata, synchronised social experiences, and recommendations and serendipity. Note: Please aim to by 18:15 as the first talk will start at 18:30 prompt.

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Chip Hack, 24th & 25th May at Makespace, Cambridge.
by Andrew Back 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

Hello, Another Chip Hack, two day introduction to FPGA programming, is being held over the weekend of 24th and 25th May at Makespace in Cambridge. Tickets went on sale yesterday, which includes lunch on both days, and are only £5 thanks to sponsorship from Embecosm. http://chiphackcambridge.eventbrite.co.uk Over half went in the space of a few hours, so if you would like to take part I wouldn't hang about! For more info, workshop materials, and photos and videos from last year's Chip Hack, see: http://chiphack.org/ Cheers, Andrew

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Hardware Freedom Day 2014 in Manchester
by Michael Dorrington 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it. * Event: Hardware Freedom Day 2014 in Manchester http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/Manchester * Date: Saturday, 15th March 2014 * Start time: 14:00 * Finish time: 17:00 * Location: Fab Lab Manchester - http://www.fablabmanchester.org/contact-us * Address: Chips, 2 Lampwick Lane, New Islington, Manchester, M4 6BU. - "(for sat nav use M4 6EE)" - http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/53.48140/-2.22107 Details ------- Hardware Freedom Day (HFD) is an annual world wide celebration of Free Hardware with the aim of promoting Hardware Freedom to everyone. This year the event lands on Saturday, 15th March. You can see the teams around the world that will be participating on the HFD 2014 Events Map <http://www.hfday.org/map/index.php?year=2014>. This includes Manchester, UK! The event will be a chance to discuss, show and see Free Hardware. The following topics are for discussion (but other Hardware Freedom topics are welcome): * The anti-Free Hardware Restricted Boot (aka Secure Boot) <http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot> * Novena <http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page> * Arduino <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino> * Openmoko <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko> * GTA04 by Golden Delicious <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko#Golden_Delicious_GTA04_board> * XiVO <http://blog.xivo.fr/> * Pandora <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_%28console%29> * Ben NanoNote <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_NanoNote> * Crypto Stick <https://www.crypto-stick.com/> * miniCNC <http://www.repairablemachines.com/introduction.html> * OH&A <http://www.ohanda.org/> * OSHUG <http://oshug.org/> If you have a device/design that gives the 4 Freedoms of Free Software as applied to a device/design and would like to tell others about it then please give a talk/demo at this event. If you are going to do a talk/demo then preferably send an email letting us know to: fsuk-manchester-team(a)nongnu.org The event will end with a tour of Fab Lab. Look forward to seeing you there. Location -------- Fab Lab Manchester is a great location for HFD, more information at: http://www.fablabmanchester.org/about-us Parking ------- There is cheap paid parking on site. Public Transport ---------------- The New Islington Metrolink Station <http://www.metrolink.co.uk/stationinfo/Pages/New-Islington.aspx> is nearby. More Information ---------------- More information available at: http://wiki.hfday.org/2014/UK/Manchester Regards, Mike. -- FSF member #9429 http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=9429 http://www.fsf.org/about "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users."

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Qt on Android: Coffee and Code Workshop - London 10/03/2014.
by Andrew Back 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hello, The BCS OSSG are hosting an event next Monday which may be of interest to some folks: "Learn how to develop and deploy an Android app using Qt or gain insight into why targeting Android makes good business sense! On March 10, hosted by the BCS Open Source Specialist Group, KDAB's BogDan Vatra, the man who ported Qt for use with Android, will be coming to London as part of a 3-City tour. He will conduct a three hour workshop Free to Qt enthusiasts. Not just a simple how-to, this session will include insightful discussions on why things are the way they are, how the internals of Qt on Android work and how Qt itself is deployed on Android devices." http://ossg.bcs.org/2014/01/30/qt-on-android-coffee-and-code-workshop-londo… Cheers, Andrew

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Jacob Mani 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

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