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OSHCamp travel, accommodation and social.
by Andrew Back 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

Hi All, Thanks to Sarah we are particularly well organised this year and below you can find details of the venue, local accommodation and travel for OSHCamp 2018. We have our own room reserved at The Wig and Mitre (http://www.wigandmitre.com/) for the social on the evening of Sat 30th June, with details of the venue (pub!) for pre-OSHCamp drinks on Fri 29th to follow. The first few talks and workshops have been confirmed and just a reminder that the closing date for proposals is a little over a month away, 25th March. So if you would like to give a talk and/or host a workshop, please enter details via the form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pLyItcKRDYmegNXtAXRgpt21yOFXdWlBO_K6uu0LlB… Cheers, Andrew // — Venue The event will be held at The Blue Room, The Lawn, Union Road, Lincoln, LN1 3BU (map location https://goo.gl/maps/mdW1g8Pmk492). Lincoln is a city of two halves, the uphill and the downhill. The OSHUG venue is located uphill in the historic area of the city, home to the castle and cathedral, museums, pubs and a quaint shopping area The Bailgate. The downhill area of Lincoln is the shopping and transport hub, and also contains the Brayford Pool and most ‘night-life’. — Where to stay There are a variety of accommodation options within and around Lincoln from self-contained lets, guest houses, hotels, farms and camping. Visit the Visit Lincoln Website for lots of options, https://www.visitlincoln.com/stay/ Some nearby, reasonably priced accommodation includes: 202 Guest House, 07767 497 189 http://www.202guesthouse.co.uk/lincoln/rooms-and-accommodation.asp (0.5 miles from conference venue – mid hill location.) St Clements Old Rectory Apartments, 5 Self Catering Apartments and 1 Guest room available, (0)1522 538087 http://www.stayatstclements.co.uk/ (0.5 miles from conference - uphill location). 2 Night minimum. — Travel For downloadable PDF maps and guides of Lincoln including Bus Routes, Cycle Routes and a Train Map visit the Visit Lincoln website. * By Road >From the North Via the A15 (Hull) or the A46 (Grimsby) >From the South Via the A46 (Leicester, Nottingham, Newark) or the A1 and A15 (London, East Anglia) >From the East Via the A158 (Skegness) >From the West Via the A1 and A57 (Leeds, Worksop, Sheffield) * Lincoln Car Parks There is a large council run car park at The Lawn, chargeable on the day at the ticket machines. (Has 2 fast-charge spaces.) There are many other car parks in the area, and both up and downhill. https://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/parking_in_lincoln/ Electric Charging points - https://www.lincoln.gov.uk/living-in-lincoln/transport-travel-and-parking/p… * By Train Lincoln Central railway station is located in the south of the city centre within easy walking distance of Lincoln High Street, the main shopping areas and the historic Cathedral Quarter. Direct connections are provided by East Midlands Trains, Virgin Trains East Coast and Northern Rail which operate daily services to Peterborough, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Doncaster and London. We would advise you to plan your trip in advance with an online route planner or by phone with TrainTracker 0871 200 49. More information on the train station and its services can be found here. You can find the station at: Lincoln Railway Station St Mary’s Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7EW The train station is fully accessible for wheelchairs. * By Bus There are good bus connections throughout Lincolnshire and Lincoln. Lincoln Bus Station: You can find the (brand new!) central bus station, near the train station and at: 18-20 Sincil Bank, Lincoln LN5 7ET For all timetable and route information please visit the Lincolnshire County Council website or call in to the Travel Shop at the bus station. Local operators include Stagecoach and PC Coaches. Walk & Ride Steep Hill Shuttle: The Lincoln Walk & Ride Steep Hill Shuttle is a useful local bus service which operates to link the Cathedral Quarter with the High Street, Cultural and Brayford Waterfront Quarters stopping at most key points across the city. The Walk & Ride Steep Hill Shuttle runs 6 days a week throughout the year: Monday to Saturday: 9.10am – 2:47pm, 4:10pm – 5:22pm. Walk & Ride tickets can be purchased on the bus. Park and Ride: For details see: https://lincolnbus.co.uk/special-services/lincoln-park-and-ride -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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OSHUG 65 — Yanking the Chain: open source software compliance in the supply chain, Thursday 22nd March.
by Andrew Back 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Hello, We have another 1-day event in March, which this time will be dedicated to the topic of open source software compliance, featuring talks and workshops on topics such as OpenChain, SW360 and FOSSology. There are additional sessions in the pipeline, but we were keen to get details out sooner rather than later, given this is a full day, now less than 2 months away, and diaries fill up quick. Further details will be provided in due course! Cheers, Andrew // OSHUG #65 — Yanking the Chain: open source software compliance in the supply chain On the 22 March 2018, 09:00 - 17:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/65 With the ever increasing complexity of embedded device software stacks, coupled with the proliferation of new mechanisms for distributing complex server software stacks, open source compliance has never been more important — or indeed more of a challenge. Fortunately, there are growing number of tools and methods at our disposal to support open source software compliance efforts. This 1-day event will feature talks and hands-on workshops covering a number of these, with insights into practical experiences and lessons learned. The preliminary programme can be found below and please note that further details will be published in due course as additional sessions are confirmed. ***Talks — Introducing OpenChain OpenChain is a scalable, flexible compliance programme, developed by the Linux Foundation. It provides a great foundation for businesses of all sizes to adopt appropriate practices and procedures in place to control development and supply chain risks. Already adopted by companies like Qualcomm, Toyota and ARM, it's equally applicable to SMEs. * Andrew Katz is a lawyer and former programmer who advises extensively on free and open source software and other opens. He is head of the technology department at Moorcrofts LLP, a boutique technology law firm, which is one of the 5 OpenChain pilot partners in the world, and has been involved in drafting many of the OpenChain materials. — Eclipse SW360 - Open Source Management with Open Source SW360 manages software components with their license compliance documentation in SPDX and allows for setting up bills-of-material to provide comprehensive documentation for products and projects. Organizations can use SW360 as a one-stop shop for sharing component information, tracking their usage in projects or products. This involves the handing of compliance information, but also, as an example, matching for vulnerabilities from data providers. As an EPL-1.0 licensed Open Source project, it is highly customizable, letting organizations keep their confidential product development data on premises, and prevents them from becoming dependent on a single vendor. This presentation shows briefly features and a walk through the application to demonstrate capabilities and use cases of SW360. * Michael C. Jaeger is one of the maintainers for the projects, FOSSology and SW360, both of which are in the area of license compliance and component management with open source software. At Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany, Michael manages the Siemens contributions to SW360 and FOSSology. Michael is a certified software architect and received a German PhD degree from the faculty of electrical engineering and computer science at TU Berlin. *** Workshops — Using FOSSology - License Analysis Hands On FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit, you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and Web user interface provide you with user interface and functionality to analyse the licensing situation of open source software. * Hosted by: Michael C. Jaeger. Note: Please aim to arrive by 08:45 as the workshop will start at 09:00 prompt. -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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OSHUG 63 — Collaborative music making, ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing.
by Andrew Back 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Hello, Details can be found below for the 63rd and first meeting of 2018, the theme for which is open source musical software and hardware. I should note also that this is another excellent programme that we have Sevan to thank for putting together. Cheers, Andrew // Event #63 — Collaborative music making, ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing. On the 18 January 2018, 18:00 - 21:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. http://oshug.org/event/63 We start the new year with an event on the theme of open source musical software and hardware. — Bela, an embedded platform for ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing Bela started off as a research project at Centre For Digital Music (Queen Mary University of London) and is now a commercial product, mainly aimed at makers, programmers and researchers that work with audio. The platform is based on a BeagleBone Black with a custom expansion cape and a dedicated software environment. The board runs Debian Linux with Xenomai as a real-time co-kernel. The combined use of Xenomai and the BeagleBone Black's on-board PRU microcontroller allows to achieve sub-millisecond latency for audio and sensor processing, while node.js is used to provide a user-friendly web-based IDE. The project is entirely open source, hardware and software. * Giulio Moro is a PhD student in the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. A sound engineer by training, he is now researching in the field of performer-instrument interaction. He is one of the inventors and core developers of Bela. — Female Laptop Orchestra: exploring geographical, cultural, technical and artistic challenges of collaborative music making As a collective of female musicians, artists, engineers, computer scientists and researchers, Female Laptop Orchestra has been pushing the boundaries of technology and cross-cultural co-located and distributed collaborative music making since 2014. Besides musical instruments, we use a variety of open source and commercial tools to create music, stream music and connect with our audience during the performance. We often collaborate with classical composers and ensembles, filmmakers, visual designers, choreographers and dancers. Recently, we also collaborated with members of Women in Music Technology (a student organization whose goal is to encouraging more women to join the music tech field of study and highlight the often unsung role of women in music technology, based at Georgia Tech Centre for Music Technology in US) and Sonora (a collaborative network bringing together artists and researchers interested in feminist manifestations in the context of the arts, based in Brazil). * Nela Brown is a sound artist, technologist, researcher and educator. In the past decade, she composed music and designed sound for award-winning projects including theatre performances, dance, mobile, film, documentaries and interactive installations. She is the founder of the Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO), an eclectic group of female musicians and technologists exploring co-located and distributed collaborative music making within different contexts and across different geographical locations. As a creative director of FLO since 2014, Nela co-ordinated 7 national and international FLO performances involving 36 collaborators from 21 different countries. — Talk #3 TBA Note: Please aim to arrive by 18:15 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt. Closing date for bookings is Tuesday 16th January 2018 at 11:30 pm. No more bookings will be taken after this date. For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters // -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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OSHUG 64 — Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick Workshop, Thursday 22nd February.
by Andrew Back 29 Dec '17

29 Dec '17

Hi All, Registration is now open for the first workshop of 2018, which will provide hands-on experience with using the Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick and open source frameworks to deploy deep neural networks. As this is likely to prove popular, registering sooner rather than later is recommended if you do plan to come along. Cheers, Andrew // OSHUG #64 — Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick Workshop. On the 22 February 2018, 09:00 - 17:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. http://oshug.org/event/64 Learn how to use the Intel® Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick and open source frameworks to deploy deep neural networks at the edge. — Workshop details Market research estimates there will be as many as 20 billion connected devices in the market by 2020. These devices are expected to generate billions of petabytes of data traffic between cloud and edge devices. In 2017 alone, 8.4B connected devices are expected in the market which is sparking a strong need to pre-process data at the edge. This has led many IoT device manufacturers, especially those working on vision based devices like smart cameras, drones, robots, AR/VR, etc., to bring intelligence to the edge. Through the recent addition of the Movidius™ VPU technology to its existing AI edge solutions portfolio, Intel is well positioned to provide solutions that help developers and data scientists pioneer the low-power intelligent edge devices segment. This workshop will provide hands-on experience with Intel’s Neural Compute Stick – a low-cost, form-factor developer kit for low-power vision based embedded inference applications. What You Will Learn: * Insights into how Movidius™ VPUs are pioneering DNN accelerated vision processing. * Introduction to hardware and software components of NCS. * Workflow of network profiling and application development using NCS. * Detection/Classification models * Advanced functionalities * Hands-on with advanced demos and sample codes built using NC SDK’s API framework, which includes support for Caffe and TensorFlow — Participant requirements ** Participants are required to bring a laptop computer with Ubuntu 16.04 and Neural Compute SDK installed ** https://github.com/movidius/ncsdk — What is provided * NCS hardware will be provided for use during the workshop * A light lunch will be provided and please ensure that any dietary requirements are made clear during registration — Hosted by The workshop will be hosted by Intel engineers. This workshop is free to attend and hosted by Intel in partnership with the BCS Open Source Specialist Group and the Open Source Hardware User Group. * Sponsored by DesignSpark — https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/home Note: Please aim to arrive by 08:45 as the workshop will start at 09:00 prompt. -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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Slides from yesterday's talks
by Sevan Janiyan 24 Nov '17

24 Nov '17

Hello, As requested, slides for Ed's talk are available at: https://www.geeklan.co.uk/files/erj-oshug62-riscv.pdf Ruslan's slides are available at: https://people.freebsd.org/~br/freebsd_riscv.pdf Regards, Sevan

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OSHUG 62 — RISC-V, RISC-V, RISC-V, Thursday 23rd November.
by Andrew Back 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

Hello, Details can be found below for the 62nd meeting. Best, Andrew // Event #62 — RISC-V, RISC-V, RISC-V On the 23 November 2017, 18:00 - 21:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/62 The sixty-second meeting will be on the theme of RISC-V, an open ISA which started life at the University of California, Berkeley. A joint meeting with the BCS Open Source Specialist Group. — Bringing up cycle-accurate models of RISC-V cores The openness of the RISC-V ISA has enabled the development of many open-source RISC-V cores with varying capabilities. Choosing an implementation that meets given requirements can be done to some extent by comparing specifications and other attributes of the cores, but any decision must be based on actual testing. Using Verilator to generate cycle-accurate models enables rapid development of testing platforms. This talk provides a report of our experience bringing up cycle-accurate models of two cores in particular, RI5CY from the PuLP project, and Clifford Wolf's PicoRV32. For testing, a software ecosystem consisting of a compiler, binary utilities, debugger, and an interface between the model and debugger accompanies the Verilator model. To compare the cores, we used the GCC test suite and the RISC-V ISA test suite for measuring correctness, and the Bristol/Embecosm Embedded Benchmark Suite (BEEBS) to compare performance. All code and scripts used for the implementation are open-source, and can be re-used by others who wish to do similar exercises with other RISC-V cores. * Edward Jones has a background in parsing techniques and works at Embecosm on LLVM and GNU toolchains. He is also involved in research by Embecosm to investigate ways in which the software tool chain can reduce program energy consumption. Edward Jones is a Computer Science graduate of the University of Kent. — FreeBSD/RISC-V and Device Drivers The FreeBSD port to RISC-V 64-bit ISA was added in January 2016. FreeBSD is the first operating system that officially supported RISC-V in the main repository. Since its introduction, support has evolved, RISC-V privileged architecture has updated a few times. The platform is maturing making it suitable for general, commercial, research and educational use. The GCC v7.0 target for RISC-V was officialy upstreamed and NVIDIA is planning to ship all of their GPUs with RISC-V coprocessor enabled in the future. Several companies have announced the start of RISC-V chip development and many universities are taking RISC-V as a target architecture for doing research. The world first RISC-V microcontroller-class board HiFive1 was released and we are getting closer to the first general purpose board to become available! This talk will describe the current status of FreeBSD/RISC-V, toolchain and supported simulators. The porting process as well as describing the latest changes made to FreeBSD in order to support the latest RISC-V privilege specification (v1.10). This includes enabling by default FDT support and drivers attachment change, SBI interface, compiler flags/built-in definition changes, support for updated BBL boot loader, RISC-V privilege levels, initial page tables build, page table entry flags and other changes. An overview of FreeBSD device drivers subsystem will also be covered describing the device frameworks, buses and kernel-interfaces that exists in FreeBSD (e.g. Newbus, cdevsw, bus_dma, SYSINIT, vt, sound, ifnet, spibus, etc), how to use and configure them and how to debug a device driver. This should answer the question: How to write device driver for FreeBSD/RISC-V? * Ruslan Bukin is a Research Associate at University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He has been a FreeBSD user since 2002 and src committer since 2013. His main interests and contributions to FreeBSD are related to computer architectures support, performance monitoring technologies support, hardware tracing technologies (Intel PT), devicedrivers, DMA engines and DMA frameworks, hardware security (Intel SGX, CHERI), heterogeneous computing. Ruslan is the lead developer of the FreeBSD/RISC-V project. He obtained a Computer Science degree in 2008 from Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow — Talk #3 TBA Note: Please aim to arrive by 18:15 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt. Closing date for bookings is Tuesday 21st November 2017 at 11:30 pm. No more bookings will be taken after this date. For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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Open Technology Workshop and Biomaker Fayre - 21 Oct 2017
by Jenny Molloy 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Dear All I thought this event focused on open hardware in science might be of interest to this list - there are places left for attendees and exhibitors and all are welcome! Best wishes Jenny -- Dr Jenny Molloy Coordinator, OpenPlant and Synthetic Biology Strategic Research Initiative University of Cambridge @synbioSRI | http://www.synbio.cam.ac.uk/ @_OpenPlant | http://openplant.org/ Subscribe to OpenPlant <http://openplant.us10.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=5a06e872cbcb323379912c47…> and SynBio SRI <http://cam.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=0577ce1c25cff983caf75199a&id=f0…> newsletters and join the Cambridge Synthetic Biology Meetup group <http://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Synthetic-Biology-Meetup/>. *Open Technology Workshop and Biomaker Fayre - 21 Oct 2017* Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge Open Technology Week will showcase and celebrate open and open source technologies for research and education developed across Cambridge and beyond. In the Open Technology Workshop, you'll see exciting talks on everything from distributed 3D printing in Africa, open hardware in Brazil and universities collaborating with companies to create open technologies in Denmark. The Biomaker Fayre in the afternoon will include demonstrations of open source biological instruments, lab and field equipment featuring over 40 teams who participated in the 2017 Biomaker Challenge <https://www.biomaker.org/>. All others with maker projects related to science and biology are invited to exhibit! We'll have everything from spectrometers for measuring the colour of penguin guano, microfluidics for tissue culture, to ultrasonic systems for measuring plant height and 3D printed modular microscopes. *More info and register now: http://tiny.cc/opentechweek <http://tiny.cc/opentechweek>* (£5-10 inc. lunch and drinks reception, free for exhibitors and those in financial hardship)

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OSHUG 61 — Reimagining EDSAC, NetBSD Updates, Semantic & Change Coupling of Software Classes, Thurs 19th October.
by Andrew Back 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Hello, Details can be found below for the 61st meeting, which is in just over a week, so please don't delay in registering if you plan to attend. Best, Andrew // Event #61 — OSSG AGM, Reimagining EDSAC, NetBSD Updates, Semantic and Change Coupling of Software Classes. On the 19 October 2017, 18:00 - 21:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/61 The meeting this month will start with the BCS OSSG AGM and this will be followed by a talk on recent and planned improvements to NetBSD, a report from Chip Hack EDSAC Challenge, and finally a talk on the interplay between semantic coupling and co-change of software. — BCS Open Source SG - AGM All members of OSHUG are welcome to attend and OSHUG members are encouraged to put themselves forward to join the committee. In particular we would welcome anyone to join the event organizers who arrange the speakers for each month and the occasional all-day workshops. Currently we have Sevan Janiyan, @ndy Bennett and Andrew Back as event organizers on the committee. — Updates to the NetBSD operating system since OSHUG #57 & #58 Since the workshops held earlier this year, numerous changes have been made to the NetBSD operating system to ensure future workshops are easier for users and work smoother from the outset. This talk will cover some of the improvements made so far and what's currently in the works. >From wrestling with the u-boot firmware to new tools included in the os and much more. * Sevan Janiyan is founder of Venture 37, which provides system administration & consultancy services. As a fan of operating systems and computers with different CPU architectures, in his spare time he maintains builds of open source software on a variety of systems featuring PowerPC, SPARC and armv7l CPUs. He hopes to own a NeXTcube & OMRON LUNA-88K2 one day. — Reimagining EDSAC: The ChipHack experience ChipHack is an occasional 2 day workshop introducing students and hobbyists to FPGA design. This year, ChipHack was sponsored by the BCS OSSG and Computer Conservation Society. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the BCS, the workshop was extended by half a day and attempted to reimagine one of the earliest valve computers, EDSAC, designed by the BCS' founding president, Prof Sir Maurice Wilkes. * Mary Bennett led the team putting together the technical content of the workshop. She will report back on what was achieved, from the three implementations of the computer, to the diverse reimagining of the original peripherals. The result is a legacy of lectures and videos, to allow anyone to run their own ChipHack course. — The Interplay between Semantic Coupling and Co-Change of software classes During maintenance, developers must ensure that related entities are updated to be consistent with these changes. Studies in the static change impact analysis domain have identified that a combination of source code and lexical information outperforms using each one when adopted independently. The presentation has two aims: first, to compare the effectiveness of measuring semantic coupling of OO software classes using (i) simple identifier based techniques and (ii) the word corpora of the entire classes in a software system. Second, to empirically investigate the interplay between semantic and change coupling. * Dr Andrea Capiluppi joined the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University London (UK), as a Lecturer in Software Development in May2012. Between 2009 and 2012 he was at University of East London, working as a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering. Before that, he worked as a Senior Lecturer and at University of Lincoln between 2006 and 2009. Andrea's research and teaching interests focus on Software Evolution and Maintenance, as well as the construction, evaluation and maintenance of Social Networks. Andrea is mostly interested in the use of open technologies and in understanding how they can improve learning and teaching as well as the production of software and other artefacts. Note: Please aim to arrive by 18:15 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt. // -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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BCS OSSG/OSHUG meeting 6:30pm 19 Oct 2017
by Jeremy Bennett 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Rather later notice than usual, but the next meeting of BCS OSSG/OSHUG will take place on Thursday 19 October. We start with the BCS AGM (which is quite short) and then have two talks. BCS AGM - ------- All members of OSHUG are welcome to attend and OSHUG members are encouraged to put themselves forward to join the committee. In particular we would welcome anyone to join the event organizers who arrange the speakers for each month and the occasional all-day workshops. Currently we have Sevan Janiyan, @ndy Bennett and Andrew Back as event organizers on the committee. Reimagining EDSAC: The ChipHack experience - ------------------------------------------ Speaker: Mary Bennett ChipHack is an occasional 2 day workshop introducing students and hobbyists to FPGA design. This year, ChipHack was sponsored by the BCS OSSG and Computer Conservation Society. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the BCS, the workshop was extended by half a day and attempted to reimagine one of the earliest valve computers, EDSAC, designed by the BCS' founding president, Prof Sir Maurice Wilkes. The workshop used the open source MyStorm board (created by OSHUG members Al Wood and Ken Boak) and the YoSys open source FPGA tool chain created by Clifford Wolf. Mary led the team putting together the technical content of the workshop. She will report back on what was achieved, from the three implementations of the computer, to the diverse reimagining of the original peripherals. The result is a legacy of lectures and videos, to allow anyone to run their own ChipHack course. Updates to the NetBSD operating system since OSHUG #57 & #58 - ------------------------------------------------------------ Speaker: Sevan Janiyan Since the workshops held earlier this year, numerous changes have been made to the NetBSD operating system to ensure future workshops are easier for users and work smoother from the outset. This talk will cover some of the improvements made so far and what's currently in the works. - From wrestling with the u-boot firmware to new tools included in the os and much more. Sevan Janiyan is founder of Venture 37, which provides system administration & consultancy services. As a fan of operating systems and computers with different CPU architectures, in his spare time he maintains builds of open source software on a variety of systems featuring PowerPC, SPARC and armv7l CPUs. He hopes to own a NeXTcube & OMRON LUNA-88K2 one day. Third talk TBA - -------------- 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/BEF58172FB4754E1 2009-03-20 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlnXMVAACgkQvvWBcvtHVOHIPACgj8k3njsFs5mSkDu2nRI7C8h/ hLUAnR8+tiLfstd7Jwr93cchY+jHGhKI =nNGr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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OSHCamp 11th talk added and accommodation.
by Andrew Back 13 Aug '17

13 Aug '17

Hi All, An 11th talk has been added to the programme for Open Source Hardware Camp on Sat 2nd September, entitled Conservatory and Garden Automation. Details of which can be found below. If you haven't registered yet, you can find full programme details and the Eventbrite link at: http://oshug.org/event/oshcamp2017 Finally, the Cross Inn at Heptonstall now have rooms and so if you haven't booked accommodation yet, it's worth checking out. http://www.thecrossinnheptonstall.co.uk/ 01422 846607 They said they will give a £10 discount to people booking for Wuthering Bytes events. It's also the venue for the OSHCamp social this year and so particularly handy if you plan to attend this. Cheers, Andrew // — Conservatory and Garden Automation Rod will talk about his recent conservatory project where he grows exotic plants, and how he has used Arduino to automate the heating, cooling & ventilation, humidification and irrigation, and how a Windows PC is used as the user interface to provide monitoring, set-point adjustment, calibration and data logging. The brief introduction explains how he came to choose Arduino as his preferred microcontroller, while a background picture show takes you through the construction and planting phases of the conservatory. He then goes on to talk about: Heating Humidification Cooling and ventilation by pneumatic control of the windows Irrigation Choice of all hardware, actuators, solenoid valves, relay boards, power supplies etc. Choice of sensors for temperature, humidity and water flow EMI testing, analogue R.C filtering and digital filtering of the analogue inputs from the sensors The design of a capacitance probe for measuring both pond water level and soil moisture level * Rod Moody worked as an electrical engineer in the manufacturing industry primarily building diesel-engine driven electrical generators ranging from a few kW to a few MW for both base load and standby applications. At 15 years of age he started an electrical engineering apprenticeship and through day release and night class gained an HNC in electrical engineering. At the age of 19 he was the companies test department manager, this soon led to many trips around the world to provide commissioning, trouble shooting and training. In his mid-twenties he moved into R&D and designed many control systems using relay logic. As technology advanced, and as a self-taught electronics engineer, he designed complex control systems using CMOS logic. In his thirties he was promoted to the company's engineering director. He retired at the age of 60, some 17 years ago. -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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