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Arduino help needed
by Jeremy Bennett 04 Jul '13

04 Jul '13

I need some help from one of you Arduino gurus. I want to talk to the Arduino serial interface from a Fedora Linux system. I know how to do the Arduino side, using Serial.available, Serial.read, Serial.write etc. My problem is how to talk from the Linux end. All the examples I see are Windows based and use Thierry Schneider's Serial C++ Library for Win32. What do I use as the Linux equivalent? It's not as simple as just writing the the Linux device (in this case /dev/bus/usb/004/081). I suspect I need something rather cleverer, but I don't know what it is. Any help much appreciated. I'm trying to help a youngster set up an Arduino based face tracker, driven by OpenCV face detection on the Linux box. 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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Preparing for Parallella, Sunday 21st July, Bletchley Park.
by Andrew Back 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

Hello, Parallella backers on the list may be interested in an event that Embecosm is hosting at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park on Sunday 21st July: http://www.embecosm.com/2013/06/26/preparing-for-parallella-sunday-21st-jul… Cheers, Andrew

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PCBmodE talk followup
by Saar Drimer 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

Hello everyone! Many thanks for the feedback after my talk. I hope you enjoyed it ;) Here's some links for more information on the project and what I spoke about: http://www.boldport.com http://boldport.blogspot.com and the video I showed is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8qIpbn4Dds The code for the software is here: http://bitbucket.org/boldport/pcbmode I'm interested in ideas of where this kind of stuff can be useful, so please do not hesitate to contact me with your thoughts! cheers, saar.

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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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BarCamp Canterbury
by Martin Ellis 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hey guys, Thought you might be interested in BarCamp Canterbury[0], it's happening 27th - 28th April this year and best of all it's free! If you haven't been to a BarCamp before it's a great weekend, and there will be great talks and plenty of beer. For up-to-date info follow us on twitter @barcampcant[1] thanks Mex [0] http://barcampcanterbury.com/ [1] https://twitter.com/barcampcant

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Re: [oshug] Help - Newbie
by Plug Gulp 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:34:49 +0000 > From: Jeremy Bennett <jeremy.bennett(a)embecosm.com> > <snip> > > I encourage you to use OpenCores, and particularly the OpenRISC > processor core, which is well supported. I suggest you follow Sven-?ke > Andersson's blog, which is a comprehensive guide to building OpenRISC > for complete newbies from a very experienced engineer. > http://www.rte.se/blog/blogg-modesty-corex/openrisc-1200-soft-processor. > Thank you for the link! > You are pushing your luck on the specs. You'll be hard pressed to get > 800MHz on anything purely in FPGA, particularly low-end FPGA's. I think > you can get around 100MHz with the latest OpenRISC implementations. > Will the platform based on OpenRISC be suitable for a Linux system with DirectFB and a video framework e.g. GStreamer? > As far as I'm aware not all the IPs you want have open source > implementations, but that is a better question to ask on the OpenCores > mailing list. > Thanks for the suggestion. I will ping the community there. > If you want more, you'll need to look at using a proprietary processor > on something like a ZedBoard (Xilinx FGPA alongside a dual-core 660MHz > ARM). But then you are looking at ?300, and much more restricted open > source support on the hardware side. > > The OpenRISC community portal is at > http://opencores.org/or1k/OR1K:Community_portal, and there is an active > IRC group on channel #openrisc at freenode.net. > > It is possible to run OpenRISC on a DE0-nano, which is just under ?60. > However something a little larger will give you more flexibility - there > are boards for around ?150 that are suitable. > > We'll be showing how to bring up an OpenRISC SoC on a DE0-nano at Chip > Hack (www.chiphack.org). That's now full, but it will be videoed, so > you'll be able to see it online (on the Embecosm YouTube channel) in > late April. > I will be eagerly waiting for the videos once the actual event is finished on the 21st of April. Thank you once again for your help. Warm regards, ~Plug > Best wishes, > > > > Jeremy > > -- > Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 > Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 > SkypeId: jeremybennett > Email: jeremy.bennett(a)embecosm.com > Web: www.embecosm.com > Twitter: @embecosm > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > oshug mailing list > oshug(a)oshug.org > http://oshug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oshug > > > End of oshug Digest, Vol 35, Issue 8 > ************************************

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Help - Newbie
by Plug Gulp 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello All, I am an Software Engineer. I am comfortable with device drivers, low-level embedded software frameworks etc using C/C++. I am trying to learn the lower level stack of system development i.e. SoC development, so please forgive if the questions and the goal sounds silly. How and where do I start to achieve the following? What learning approach do you recommend? My goal is as follows: 1. Use the IPs available on opencores.org. 2. Integrate the IPs to create a simple SoC. 3. Add features (as a learning exercise) to the IPs in the SoC. 4. Create a Linux or OpenBSD BSP for the SoC. 5. Get the OS to boot upto the terminal. 6. Port DirectFB to the platform. In short, I want to develop a platform that will have 32bit or 64bit processor at atleast 800Mz, HDMI, WiFi, Eth, SD card, USB and atleast 256MB RAM support. To achieve the above, what hardware (and software) will I need and where to purchase it? This is my hobby project hence my budget is £50-£60. Is it possible to get all the stuff required to achieve the above in that price range? Thanks and regards, -G

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OSHUG #24 — Lightning Talks.
by Andrew Back 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hello, Registration is now open for the March OSHUG meeting, details of which are below. Cheers, Andrew // OSHUG #24 — Lightning Talks Wednesday 20th March 2013, 18:00 - 20:00 at Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG. Sponsored by Embecosm: http://www.embecosm.com Registration: http://oshug.org/event/24 For the twenty-fourth OSHUG meeting we've decided to try something new and we will be hosting a series of lightning talks. The first five talks have been confirmed and details of these can be found below. Offers of additional talks of between five and ten minutes are invited and proposals can either be submitted in advance via e-mail or made on the night (please arrive early). Note that this month the meeting takes place on a Wednesday. - FUNcube Satellite FUNcube-1 is a UK amatbur radio educational satellite that is due to be launched later this year, and that uses open source hardware to bring real-time space based experiments to classrooms around the globe. Three members of the on-board computer team will discuss project goals and progress. - 64-core Parallella Prototype Simon Cook will be demonstrating one of only two 64-core Parallella prototypes in the UK. - Interfacing High-performance Low-cost Embedded Systems with FPGAs Mustafa H. Yuce will be talking about an open source project that interfaces embedded systems including BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi with FPGAs, to enable the implementation of high-speed parallel processing applications such as computer vision. - Flux Alan Wood will be talking about the recently developed Flux series of boards that are used for motion control applications. - Open Source Junction 4 Report Paul Tanner will be providing a report from the OSS Watch two day workshop, Open Source Junction 4: Open Source Hardware meets Open Source Software. Note: Please aim to arrive for 18:00 - 18:20 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/24

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London Arduino Meetup and Jam - event #3 - 19th March
by marc barto 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hi all Sorry if I sent this twice (a few mix-up with my gmail), this is a reminder that we're meeting on Tuesday for an evening of presentations and informal discussions around Arduino (and all microcontrollers) at the Hub Westminster. Programme: *> Projects presentations* - Arduino software cloner by Michael Margolis (Arduino Cookbook author) - Infa Red Arduino box by Liam *> Open Hardware News (good links and projects, OSH events and call out to makers, tips) > Arduino Jam (bring your projects, boards, robots...)* Event is of course free, all info here: http://www.meetup.com/LondonArduino/events/106683762/ Hope you can join us Marc -- @marc_in_london <https://twitter.com/marc_in_london> SpringofCode <http://springofcode.org/> visionOntv <http://visionon.tv/> LondonArduino <http://www.meetup.com/LondonArduino/>

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Announcing: London's first Maker Faire – Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire
by Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hello all, Just a little note to announce that the first ever Maker Faire in London is being held in Elephant & Castle on Saturday, 6th July 2013 at the London College of Communication (LCC). The Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire will be open from 10:00–18:00, entry is free and open to all. The Maker Faire is a day of family friendly making, learning, crafting, inventing and tinkering in the heart of London. Be inspired by arts, crafts, engineering, science and technology from the Makers of the capital. Best of all entry is free and there will be many of opportunities to get hands on! Call for Makers We are looking for talented Makers and Crafters to exhibit their projects at the Maker Faire, visit our website to find out what we are looking for and get Making. The deadline is Sunday, 14th April 2013. http://makerfaireelephantandcastle.com/call-for-makers Makers & Designers Meet-up Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire, in collaboration with the Digital Programmes team at the Victoria and Albert Museum, LCC, Central Saint Martins, and University for the Creative Arts will be running talks and workshops at the Maker Faire on Saturday, 6th July 2013 and at the V&A on Sunday, 7th July 2013. This extension to the Maker Faire explores the way Designers and Makers work together and what their shared future might be. Extended Call For the Makers & Designers Meet-up we want to hear from Makers and Designers interested in taking part in panel discussions and workshops or in showing smaller projects around the themes outlined above. For details of this extended call please visit our website, the deadline is Sunday, 14th April 2013. http://makerfaireelephantandcastle.com/meet-up Kind Regards Tom Lynch Organiser – Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire is independently organised and operated under license from Maker Media, Inc. Kind Regards Tom Lynch Organiser – Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire is independently organised and operated under license from Maker Media, Inc.

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ChipHack: Introduction to FPGA Programming, London, 20 & 21 April 2013
by Jeremy Bennett 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Hi all, Embecosm is pleased to announce Chip Hack (chiphack.org), a two day hands-on workshop on programming FPGAs aimed at complete beginners. Led by a team of experienced FPGA designers, and working with the DE0-nano board, we'll start with simple hardware designs to control LED's counters and push buttons and move on to a UART transmitter and (for the more ambitious) receiver. The event coincides with Hardware Freedom Day (http://www.hfday.org) and we'll be using open source designs throughout the weekend. Our final session will show how to bring up a complete ready-made OpenRISC system-on-chip, and show where you can look under the hood to learn more. No HDL or FPGA programming experience is required, but you will need to have some programming experience and an understanding of basic digital electronics. The workshop is sponsored by Embecosm, and will run at the Centre for Creative Collaboration in Acton Street, London. We are particularly keen to encourage school teachers to get involved, so we giving away a DE0-nano kit to the first 5 who apply. If you are a teacher and want to step up from Raspberry Pi, this is the workshop for you. Numbers are limited, so book early at chiphack.org Look forward to seeing you there, Jeremy -- Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Email: jeremy.bennett(a)embecosm.com Web: www.embecosm.com

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Hardware question: tiny bluetooth/wifi module
by Artjom 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Hi guys, I'm new to the group so it might not be the best place to ask these type of questions. Let me know where I could ask it, or search for more info. I am looking for a bluetooth/wifi module that could fit nicely in a small case the size of lego brick. It should fit there together with a battery and a controller. Is there anything like that on the market that I could look at? I need this to enable wireless connectivity for a small object to be used for installation. The size is critical. For controller I found tinyAVR which looks promising but cant find anything for Bluetooth or Wifi. Thanks! Artjom

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Open Source Junction 4
by Mark Johnson 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Dear OSHUG, Below is the official announcement for Open Source Junction 4, the event which I posted a request for speakers for recently. The event is now open for general registration. OSS Watch is delighted to announce a new event in the Open Source Junction series aimed at facilitating knowledge exchange between industry and academic innovation. Open Source Junction brings together the best business and academic minds to explore how the two sectors can jointly innovate, develop and exploit open source software in conjunction with open source hardware. Open Source Junction 4 is taking place on 14th-15th March at Trinity College, Oxford and focuses on open source hardware. Open Source Hardware (OSH), like Open Source Software (OSS), is an open approach to technology where the information needed to create hardware artefacts – such as schematics, drawings and bill of materials – is distributed, allowing others to produce artefacts, and to modify and improve on the design. Open Source Hardware has a wide range of applications, including medical appliances, lab equipment, surveillance drones, and toys. If you're involved in an Open Source Hardware project, a project that uses Open Source Software in conjunction with hardware, or just enjoy cool hardware hacks, we'd like to see you at Open Source Junction. We're keen to exploit the tangible nature of Open Source Hardware at the event by encouraging attendees who are part of a hardware project, whether Open Source Hardware in the strictest sense or an innovative use of commodity hardware in conjunction with Open Source Software, to give a short presentation or demo. If you're interested in doing this, please give details on the registration form. You can read full details of the event and sign up at EventBrite[1]. Many Thanks Mark Johnson Development Manager, OSS Watch [1] https://osj4.eventbrite.co.uk

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Anyone from Swindon, Wiltshire?
by Plug Gulp 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hello, Are there any members from Swindon, Wiltshire in this group? Would like to meet for a coffee, networking, sharing knowledge etc. Thanks and regards, ~Plug

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PCBmodE
by Saar Drimer 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Good morning OSHUG friends. Yesterday I released the code for my PCBmodE project under the Apache License: https://bitbucket.org/boldport/pcbmode The overview in the link above pretty much covers the introduction. More info is on the blog: http://boldport.blogspot.co.uk/ I've created PCBmodE to satisfy an itch, so I'm not even sure how useful it would be for others. If you have ideas on how the project can be useful to you or others, or what you'd like to see it do, please let me know. I might do a short demo in the March OSHUG event; I'm expecting the first board I made with PCBmodE to arrive on Friday! cheers, saar.

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Re: [oshug] Open Source Junction 4
by Mark Johnson 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hi Andrew > Just a point on the text at Eventbrite: Raspberry Pi is not open > source hardware. They've published the schematics as all rights > reserved and without any licence specified, and for the PCB layout > I've not seen anything other than a screen grab of the merged layers. > The EDA CAD "source" files have not been provided either. Thanks for the feedback, we'll re-word the description so it doesn't sound like we're calling the Raspberry Pi Open Source Hardware. Mark

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