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OSHUG #31 — Privacy and Security, 20th February 2014.
by Andrew Back 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Hello, Registration is now open for the first OSHUG meeting of 2014! Details below. Regards, Andrew // Event #31 — Privacy and Security (Security protocols in constrained environments, RFIDler, Indie Phone) 20th February 2014, 17:30 - 20:30 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/31 The thirty-first OSHUG meeting is dedicated to privacy and security, with talks on implementing security protocols in constrained environments, an SDR RFID reader/writer/emulator, and a new initiative that will use design thinking and open source to create a truly empowering mobile phone. — Security protocols in constrained environments Implementation of security protocols such as TLS, SSH or IPsec come with a memory and compute overhead. Whilst this has become negligible in full scale environments it's still a real issue for hobbyist and embedded developers. This presentation will look at the sources of the overheads, what can be done to minimise them, and what sort of hardware platforms can be made to absorb them. The benefits and potential pitfalls of hardware specific implementations will also be examined. Chris Swan is CTO at CohesiveFT where he helps build secure cloud based networks. He's previously been a security guy at large Swiss banks, and before that was a Weapon Engineering Officer in the Royal Navy. Chris has tinkered with electronics since pre-school, and these days has a desk littered with various dev boards and projects. — RFIDler: A Software Defined RFID Reader/Writer/Emulator Software Defined Radio has been quietly revolutionising the world of RF. However, the same revolution has not yet taken place in RFID. The proliferation of RFID/NFC devices means that it is unlikely that you will not interact with one such device or another on a daily basis. Whether it’s your car key, door entry card, transport card, contactless credit card, passport, etc. you almost certainly have one in your pocket right now! RFIDler is a new project, created by Aperture Labs, designed to bring the world of Software Defined Radio into the RFID spectrum. We have created a small, open source, cheap to build platform that allows any suitably powerful microprocessor access to the raw data created by the over-the-air conversation between tag and reader coil. The device can also act as a standalone ‘hacking’ platform for RFID manipulation/examination. The rest is up to you! Adam “Major Malfunction” Laurie is a security consultant working in the field of electronic communications, and a Director of Aperture Labs Ltd., who specialise in reverse engineering of secure systems. He started in the computer industry in the late Seventies, and quickly became interested in the underlying network and data protocols. During this period, he successfully disproved the industry lie that music CDs could not be read by computers, and wrote the world’s first CD ripper, ‘CDGRAB’. He was also involved various early open source projects, including ‘Apache-SSL’ which went on to become the de-facto standard secure web server. Since the late Nineties he has focused his attention on security, and has been the author of various papers exposing flaws in Internet services and/or software, as well as pioneering the concept of re-using military data centres (housed in underground nuclear bunkers) as secure hosting facilities. Andy Ritchie has been working in the computer and technology industry for over 20 years for major industry players such as ICL, Informix, British Airways and Motorola. Founding his first company, Point 4 Consulting at the age of 25, he built it into a multi-million pound technology design consultancy. Point 4 provided critical back end technology and management for major web sites such as The Electronic Telegraph, MTV, United Airlines, Interflora, Credit Suisse,BT, Littlewoods and Sony. Following Point 4 he went on to found Ablaise, a company that manages the considerable intellectual property generated by Point 4, and Aperture Labs. In his spare time he manages the worlds largest and longest running security conference, Defcon. Andy's research focuses on access control systems, biometric devices and embedded systems security, and he has spoken and trained at information security conferences in Europe and the US publicly and for private and governmental audiences. He is responsible for identifying major vulnerabilities in various access control and biometric systems, and has a passion for creating devices that emulate access control tokens either electronic physical or biometric. Andy has been responsible both directly and indirectly for changing access control guidelines for several western governments. Andy is currently a director of Aperture Labs Ltd, a company that specialises in reverse engineering and security evaluations of embedded systems. — Indie: a tale of privacy, civil liberties, and a phone Can a phone really help protect our civil liberties? Aral Balkan thinks so. And he’s embarked on an audacious journey to make one. Join us to hear the introduction of a two-year story that is only just beginning. Aral Balkan is is founder and designer of Indie Phone, a phone that empowers mere mortals to own their own data. Note: Please aim to by 18:15 as the first talk will start at 18:30 prompt.

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BCS OSSG: Open Source Compilers, 23rd January.
by Andrew Back 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Hello, There isn't an OSHUG meeting in January, however, the BCS OSSG are hosting a meeting on the 23rd which those with an interest in compilers may wish to head along to. Featuring, of course, talks from OSHUG's own compiler experts. Details below. Cheers, Andrew // The Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) will be holding a joint meeting with the BCS SPA group on January 23rd 2014 dedicated to Open Source compilers. The even will take place at the BCS Central London Offices, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA betwen 5:30pm and 8 :30pm. Please note that you need to register to attend: https://events.bcs.org/book/923/ The event is open and free to attend for both BCS members and non-members. The event currently consists of three half-hour talks (20 minutes of talk, 10 minutes of questions) The current sessions are: * LLVM, Simon Cook, Embecosm * Verilator: An open source Verilog to C++ compiler, Jeremy Bennett * Compiler optimization for energy minimization, James Pallister, University of Bristol Further details can be found here at the BCS OSSG web site: http://ossg.bcs.org/2013/12/14/open-source-compilers-london-2312014/

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Re: [oshug] Members from India
by Wisse Hettinga 11 Jan '14

11 Jan '14

Hi Talk to Esskay, www.esskay.in in Mumbai...we are partners with them .. Best Wisse hettinga Www.elektor-labs.com Verzonden vanaf Samsung Mobile -------- Oorspronkelijk bericht -------- Van: Jacob Mani Datum:11-01-2014 13:45 (GMT+01:00) Aan: oshug(a)oshug.org Onderwerp: [oshug] Members from India Are there any subscribers or members from india to this list? Wanted some local help from india about good hardware vendors regards & thanks -- Jacob Mani Computer Science and Engineering' 2013 College of Engineering,Chengannur

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Members from India
by Jacob Mani 11 Jan '14

11 Jan '14

Are there any subscribers or members from india to this list? Wanted some local help from india about good hardware vendors regards & thanks -- Jacob Mani Computer Science and Engineering' 2013 College of Engineering,Chengannur

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OSHUG #31 - 20th Feb.
by Andrew Back 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Hi All, Firstly, save the date: the first meeting of 2014 will take place on Thursday 20th February. The theme is going to be along the lines of security/privacy and there are two talks already confirmed and looking for a third. I was wondering if anyone knew someone who was involved with the FreedomBox project, or perhaps knew enough about it to give a talk on it themselves? Suggestions of other device and networks security and privacy related talks are also welcomed. Cheers, Andrew

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DuckDuckGo can show resistor colour codes
by Sevan / Venture37 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

Just saw this on my twitter feed https://twitter.com/joewalnes/status/418830744241577984 eg https://duckduckgo.com/?q=4.7k+ohm Sevan

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[another job ad] Mavrx
by Ilya Dmitrichenko 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

Sorry if you find this being spam... but I think that it might be of interest to some! Mavrx is a next-generation data company using mapping and remote sensing to tackle some of today’s greatest global challenges. Our combination of hardware and online processing enables users to track and visualize what’s happening in their world in real time like never before. Mavrx will be field-trialing prototype hardware in the winelands of South Africa from January to March 2014, and will pay full expenses in South Africa and salary for the selected candidate. Full time employment will continue in San Francisco from April 2014 onwards. Mavrx is looking for a talented embedded software engineer to join our team. We are a fast-moving lean startup. The job description is fluid; the candidate must be flexible and ready to do what is required for the company to succeed! You’ll be ensured: competitive salary, full benefits, stock options, and an outstanding opportunity to grow with an execution focused, overachieving team of engineers. You will be responsible for the embedded software section of the stack. You will work directly with hardware engineers and back-end developers. A successful candidate will join us on our two-month trip to South Africa, so you must be willing and capable to travel, and be ready to get up to speed fast. Responsibilities: - Lead the development of embedded software - Take part in all aspects of development of an electronics product - Get your hands dirty field trialing your work and performing data analysis - Flying RC aircraft The candidate must have knowledge of/experience with: - Embedded C code - Register-level operation of microcontrollers - Interpreting schematics and chip datasheets - Diagnosing hardware problems in an embedded system - Designing and building digital circuits Please send the following to jobs(a)mavrx.co: - Your CV/resume - Examples of relevant previous projects, including those that you have done outside the scope of your education or employment. Full job description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WbJNuSkdNkLD8RGju8sizbsY8rScMQ9dxoUQ7Zh… Another job at Mavrx: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xNfli5VePWN7yNSAoxej61NN7ygctorT1WyKrbL…

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Re: [oshug] Meetup theme: scripting MCUs
by Justin Cormack 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

> From: "Ilya Dmitrichenko" <errordeveloper(a)gmail.com> > Date: 6 Dec 2013 14:21 > Subject: [oshug] Meetup theme: scripting MCUs > To: "Open Source Hardware User Group Discussion List" <oshug(a)oshug.org> > Cc: > > So there these two projects (not sure if the authors are on the list): > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-python-for-micro… > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/espruino-javascript-for-things > > We could probably find more speakers, but would be quite fun to see > these two fellas! > > Surprisingly, Gordon (who I have met) as well as Damien, are both > based in Cambridge, so it's probably not gonna be too hard to invite > them around. Hi, I would be happy to talk about eLua (I run the London Lua user group and have a couple of microcontroller boards that run it now). I don't know if there is anyone around who might want to talk about mruby. Justin

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Free Energy Efficiency Workshop: Bristol 16 January 2014
by Jeremy Bennett 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

Hi all, The Technology Strategy Board is running a workshop on energy efficiency tools in Bristol on 16 January, this is a free event aimed at anyone interested in the field: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/energy-efficient-software-tools-workshop-tick… We'll be there with the new MAGEEC energy measurement boards (all free hardware design of course). Designed by Simon Hollis of Bristol University, these can sample energy usage up to 6 million times per second. It's a chance to bring along your own hardware and instrument it, or bring along your own software and try it on some standard boards. We'll have some ST Discovery (ARM) boards and Arduino/Shrimp boards to use if you'd rather not risk your own hardware. If you can't make it on the 16th, then there is a second chance to find out more about open source and energy efficiency, because we'll be re-running the workshop at FOSDEM as part of the energy efficiency dev room: https://fosdem.org/2014/ Hope to see you at one of these. 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

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Wifi SD Card runs Linux
by Andy Bennett 14 Dec '13

14 Dec '13

Hi, This looks like a perfect platform for IoT things: https://twitter.com/iot_borat/status/411959286604906497 Regards, @ndy -- andyjpb(a)ashurst.eu.org http://www.ashurst.eu.org/ 0x7EBA75FF

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[job advert warning!] Boldport
by Saar Drimer 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

Hello everyone. I hope no one would be offended by this advert, but I wanted to get the word out there, and there is a strong connection to open source hardware ;) As some of you know, I run Boldport, where I create "beautifully functional circuits" and maintain the Python open source PCB design software, PCBmodE. (You may have seen some of my work at Wuthering Bytes and my OSHUG presentations.) I'm looking for someone to join me. The technical background isn't as critical as our ability to work together and that the person joining understands and is passionate about the vision for what we aim to achieve together. If there's a right match, there is an opportunity to join at a co-founder level. I have a somewhat generic job advert on Boldport's site: http://www.boldport.com/work.html Other information about the company, the work, the vision, and PCBmodE is here: http://boldport.com http://boldport.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/user/boldport http://bitbucket.org/boldport/pcbmode Thanks for your attention, and I look forward to hearing from anyone who is interested. Please forward this on to others if it's relevant to them. All the best, saar.

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Meetup theme: scripting MCUs
by Ilya Dmitrichenko 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

So there these two projects (not sure if the authors are on the list): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-python-for-micro… http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/espruino-javascript-for-things We could probably find more speakers, but would be quite fun to see these two fellas! Surprisingly, Gordon (who I have met) as well as Damien, are both based in Cambridge, so it's probably not gonna be too hard to invite them around. Cheers, -- Ilya

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Question to Londoners...
by Ilya Dmitrichenko 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Hey, Would anyone by chance have an AVR JTAGICE mkII and would be willing to land it for the weekend? I have just ordered one, but it might take a while to arrive in the post... I promis a reward! Cheers :) -- Ilya

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S.London Makerspace - Make Day & Meeting 7th Dec
by Tom Newsom 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Hi all, I'll be brief! We're setting up a new makerspace for South London, in a railway arch at Loughborough Junction. We're getting close to getting a move-in date from Network rail, but in the mean time, we're holding a series of Make Days, in order to build our community, work on our projects, share knowledge and discuss our plans for moving forward. The next meeting is on Saturday 7th, at the London College of Communications, Elephant & Castle. If you'd like to come and meet us and have a say, we'd love to see you there! For fire safety/security reasons, registration is required, which can be done at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-day-december-2013-registration-9420752725 If you're at all interested in what we're up to, you can find out more at our blog: http://www.southlondonmakerspace.org/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SouthLondonMakerspace twitter: https://twitter.com/LDN_Makerspace Cheers, Tom Newsom Trustee, South London Makerspace

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OSHUG #30 — Speed (overclocking, souped-up BBC Micro, compiler optimisation), 28th November 2013.
by Andrew Back 08 Nov '13

08 Nov '13

Hello, Registration for the last OSHUG of 2013 is now open, and it looks like it's going to be a fun one! Cheers, Andrew // Event #30 — Speed (overclocking, souped-up BBC Micro, compiler optimisation) 28th November 2013, 18:00 - 20:00 at Erlang Solutions, New Loom House, 101 Back Church Lane, London, E1 1LU. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/30 The thirtieth OSHUG meeting is dedicated to the quest for computing speed. It will feature talks on a hardware design to aid overclocking, retrofitting a 30+ year old microcomputer with modern processors, and compiler optimisation. — Fast and Furious: Overclocking chips for fun and profit Due to the variance in silicon manufacturing technologies, integrated circuits used in everyday designs are usually spec'ed at lower speeds than their actual capabilities. It is, therefore, not unlikely for chips to run faster than their advertised speeds, sometimes at significant margins with a little push. The umbrella term used for this practice isoverclocking and it encapsulates a variety of techniques from simply increasing the clock speed to employing elaborate systems with liquid nitrogen cooling. This talk will provide an overview of overclocking and overvolting techniques — investigating the effects of forcing chips to run faster on the silicon level — and present vftweak: an open source hardware design that aims to simplify experimenting with circuits by providing a programmable interface and monitoring tools. Omer Kilic works on Erlang Embedded, a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project in collaboration with University of Kent and Erlang Solutions. The aim of this project is to bring the benefits of concurrent systems development using Erlang to the field of embedded systems; through investigation, analysis, software development and evaluation. Before joining Erlang Solutions, Omer was a research student in the Embedded Systems Lab at the University of Kent, working on a reconfigurable heterogeneous computing framework. Omer likes tiny computers, things that 'just work' and real beer. — Souping up the BBC Micro This talk will introduce a selection of projects which allow modern processors to be used with a 30+ year old BBC Micro, before exploring in more detail the speaker's own open hardware contribution to the options available. Jason Flynn creates open electronics designs for the amateur radio and retro computing. His main areas of interest are digital TV, microwave, satellite and most things related to Acorn and ARM. He previously held a post on the RSGB Data Communications Committee, is an honorary member of SSETI, has been committee of Martlesham Radio Society for 7 years, and is presently involved in setting up a hackspace in Ipswich. — How compiler optimisation helps you get the best out of your hardware This talk will give a high-level overview of compiler optimisation, covering general approaches used in both local and global optimisation, and also taking a look at the technique of superoptimization. The talk will conclude by looking at some of the 200+ optimisation passes used in GCC. The talk will be given by Jeremy Bennett, and he will be joined by Joern Rennecke and Simon Cook, who will take questions about optimisation in the compilers on which they are involved. Dr Jeremy Bennett is founder of Embecosm and an expert on debugging and silicon chip modeling. A former academic, Jeremy holds a MA and PhD from Cambridge University and is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Information Technology Professional and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the author of the standard textbook, "Introduction to Compiling Techniques" (McGraw-Hill 1990, 1996, 2003). Simon Cook leads Embecosm's work on LLVM and is author of the standard guide to the LLVM assembler. He is also an expert on low-energy compilation, being lead engineer on the MAGEEC project. Simon holds a double first class honors degree in Computer Science and Electronics from Bristol University. Jörn Rennecke is an expert on compiler back-end optimization and also leads Embecosm's work on GCC. Over 18 years he has become one of the all-time largest contributors to the compiler. During 2006-9, Jörn was a major contributor to the EU-funded MILEPOST project, which developed the first machine learning compiler optimization framework. He is currently maintainer for GCC for the Epiphany and Synopsys ARC architectures and a major contributor to GCC for Atmel AVR. Note: Please aim to arrive for 18:15 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt.

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FOSDEM 2014 Energy-efficient Computing devroom
by Jeremy Bennett 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

Hi all, The MAGEEC project (www.mageec.org) is hosting a developer room at FOSDEM next February. We'll be exploring all aspects of energy-efficient computing using open source hardware and software. FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, is held annually over a weekend at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. It is free to attend and attracts over 5,000 participants. The energy-efficient computing devroom will run on Sunday 2nd February. We have a call for participation out now. You are invited to submit your proposals for taking part in the devroom. You can read more about all the devrooms on the FOSDEM website: https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-10-02-accepted-devrooms/ which links to more details for the energy-efficient computing devroom here: http://mageec.org/wiki/FOSDEM_2014_Energy-efficient_Computing_devroom The deadline for proposals is 25 November. Don't hesitate to contact me or Andrew Back (copied), or to post to the MAGEEC mailing list (http://mageec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mageec) if you have any questions or would like to know more. 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

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Xmos Startkit
by Alan Wood 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

Those who know me or have or have attended some of my earlier (pre TVRRUG) OSHUG talks will be aware that I frequently work with Xmos multicore micro-controllers among my many other favourite technologies. Xmos are a UK chip design company (like ARM) who are doing a lot of work to push the technology envelope and they extensively use Opensource tool chains along with their community opensource libraries at xcore ( https://github.com/xcore). They have recently made efforts to widen their product lines and lower the barrier to entry, if you are interested in exploring XS1 technology and perhaps adding to their opensource developer pool you might be interested in a special promotion they are running called Startkit where they are giving away some great simple development boards for folks that may have a good idea to try out on them. Anyhow I don't want this to appear to much like an advert but I really respect what these folks are doing and hope that this doesn't put anyone off by posting it here on OSHUG You can find the offer here: https://github.com/xcore regards Al

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Re: [oshug] oshug Digest, Vol 42, Issue 5
by Mark.itto 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

this <http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/725991125/open-source-graphics-processo…>is the link to Open Source GPU On Thu, Oct 17, 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. Open GPU (Mark.itto) > 2. Open Source Hardware Summit (Andrew Katz) > 3. Re: Open GPU (phil jones) > 4. Re: Open Source Hardware Summit (Derek Hales) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:56:23 +0100 > From: "Mark.itto" <maco1717(a)gmail.com> > To: oshug(a)oshug.org > Subject: [oshug] Open GPU > Message-ID: > <CADB-D= > O_caDZLPg13caTKPb_sQJgiZD3MB6WN+C0iWSjOq+jJg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > JFYI: > > I wanted to share this with you guys its been there for some days most of > you have seen it for sure I think its an interesting project and promising > with very little success... > > c'mon lets push it forward... >

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Open GPU
by Mark.itto 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

JFYI: I wanted to share this with you guys its been there for some days most of you have seen it for sure I think its an interesting project and promising with very little success... c'mon lets push it forward...

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Open Source Hardware Summit
by Andrew Katz 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

You're probably all aware of this, but if not: next year's Open Source Hardware Summit is likely to be in Europe, venue TBC. If you can come up with a compelling reason why Hebden Bridge is the ideal venue (and who can't?) then now is the time to get stuck into the discussion over on lists.oshwa.org. Best Andrew

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Soldering station
by Jeremy Bennett 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hi all, I want to set up a decent soldering station. Any suggestions on what I should look for in a soldering iron (and solder for that matter). Any other suggestions on kit that is particularly useful. Thanks, Jeremy -- Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Twitter: @jeremypbennett Email: jeremy.bennett(a)embecosm.com Web: www.embecosm.com

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Video from OSHUG #29.
by Andrew Back 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Hello, After a total of ~16 hours H.264 rendering, followed by about the same amount of time uploading, the video from the October OSHUG meeting is now online: http://designspark.com/eng/blog/adrian-bowyer-reprap-and-tvrrug-at-oshug-29… (I definitely need a faster computer and net connection!) Cheers, Andrew

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OSHUG #30 call for talks!
by Andrew Back 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Hello, We're in the process of planning the last OSHUG meeting of 2013, which is set to take place on Thursday 28th November at the offices of Erlang Solutions (thanks, Omer!) The theme that is developing is around re-purposing/over-clocking/reverse-engineering of hardware. As ever, there should ideally be an open source hardware aspect, e.g. over-clocking of OSHW, or perhaps an open source OSHW design for use with a over-clocked, modified or a reverse-engineered product. Although, talks on the wider principles, techniques and approaches etc. are welcome also. I'd like to try and get details together within the next week if possible. Cheers, Andrew

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TVRRUG talk Follow up OSHUG#29
by Alan Wood 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

Hi Folks Thanks to all that attended the talks at BCS last night and thanks to BCS for hosting us, a very enjoyable evening. I thought I should just follow up with some links I promised from the talk: TVRRUG website <http://www.tvrrug.org.uk/home> and its documentation. mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/tvreprapug> and sign up<http://tvreprapug+subscribe@googlegroups.com/> for those interested in joining the group. Also for those wishing to join the round 3 build please add yourself to this spreadsheet<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akk7-L8gKeXGdGh1VUFTc05BOXM5WD…> As usual if you have any follow up questions about TVRRUG, it's group builds or community activities just fire away I will try to answer here. regards Al

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OSHUG #29 — Production by the Proletariat (RepRap, TVRRUG), 2nd October 2013.
by Andrew Back 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

Hello, Finally got round to putting up the event page for OSHUG #29. Looking at the BCS registration page there are just 14 tickets left. Cheers, Andrew // Event #29 — Production by the Proletariat (RepRap, TVRRUG) 2nd October 2013, 17:30 - 21:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/29 For the twenty-ninth meeting we will be joining forces with the BCS Open Source Specialist Group, to host talks from the creator of RepRap, Adrian Bowyer, and Alan Wood of Thames Valley RepRapUser Group. — The Ownership of the Means of Production by the Proletariat Look at your computer setup. Imagine you hooked up a 3D printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you’re in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make lots of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself. This talk will be about RepRap – the Replicating Rapid-prototyper. This 3D printer builds the component up in layers of plastic. This technology already existed before RepRap, but the cheapest proprietary machine then would have set you back £15,000. And it wasn’t even designed so that it could make itself. So what the RepRap team have done is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about £300). That way it’s accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. The RepRap machine is being distributed entirely free to everyone using open-source – so, if you have one, you can make another and give it to a friend… Adrian Bowyer holds a first degree and a PhD in engineering from Imperial College. He was an academic at the University of Bath for 35 years. He retired in 2012 to help to run the company RepRap Professional Ltd. Adrian's areas of research are geometric modelling and geometric computing in general (he is one of the authors of the Bowyer-Watson algorithm for Voronoi diagrams), the application of computers to manufacturing, and biomimetics. In 2004 he created RepRap – humanity’s first self-replicating general-purpose manufacturing machine. — Experiences from the Thames Valley RepRap User Group Thames Valley RepRap User Group (TVRRUG) was set up to provide support to those who wanted to build their own RepRap 3D printer, and to exchange information and ideas between those who had already successfully completed builds. TVRRUG has now organised three group build rounds, sourcing and printing parts, and resulting in many working printers. Along the way the group has produced extensive documentation, and designed its own electronics and a variant of the Prusa Mendel design. Alan Wood originally trained in systems engineering, and got lost in software engineering and F/OSS for a decade, before returning back to his hardware roots via the open source hardware and makers movement that has gathered momentum in recent years. Note: Please aim to arrive for 17:30 - 18:20 as the first talk will start at 18:30 prompt. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/29

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