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Event #4 - Community, 23rd September.
by Andrew Back 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hello, Details are now up on the website for the fourth OSHUG meeting: http://oshug.org/event/4 Still waiting for a few more details from DesignSpark and London Hackspace, but registration is now live. We'll add further details as and when we have them. The theme for OSHUG #5 will be radio and we have a talk on the extremely cool OpenHPSDR platform confirmed. http://openhpsdr.org/ Still looking for a couple more speakers. Might be nice to have a talk on the affordable Softrock SDR radios, or perhaps something non-ham related, e.g. an open source hardware GPS, RFID, UWB or more classical radio platform or project. As ever suggestions and offers to present are most welcome and indeed encouraged. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Arduino: The Documentary (trailer)
by Andrew Back 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

http://vimeo.com/13781339 Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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London hackspace party
by Adrian Godwin 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

In case anyone here isn't aware of the London Hackspace, you might like to know that they've opened a new space in Hoxton. To celebrate this, there's a spacewarming party .. come along and find out about the hackspace group and the space facilities. http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Spacewarming_party -adrian

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Open Hardware Summit
by Paul Downey 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

I wondered if any oshugers were headed to the Open Hardware Summit? http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/ -- Paul (psd) http://blog.whatfettle.com

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Fwd: draft of open hardware definition released!
by Andrew Back 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

Forwarded at the request of Ayah: From: ayah bdeir <ayahbdeir(a)gmail.com> Date: July 15, 2010 12:03:21 PM GMT+03:00 To: Bryan Bishop <kanzure(a)gmail.com>, Open Manufacturing <openmanufacturing(a)googlegroups.com>, cc-patents(a)lists.ibiblio.org, diybio <diybio(a)googlegroups.com>, Open Source Hardware User Group <oshug(a)oshug.org> Subject: draft of open hardware definition released! Hello all, I've had a discussion about this with a few of you already, but thought would be much better to email the lists. Yesterday, a group of us, who had been working on an open hardware definition, released version 0.3 for public comment. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/open_source_hardware_-_oshw_draft_… We would love your feedback, questions, and signatures! It's very important for this effort to be inclusive. We are also holding an open hardware summit: http://www.openhardwaresummit.org on September 23rd in New York. I will send an official call for submissions later this week, but in the meantime, please do consider attending, submitting or supporting. thanks! ayah -------------------------------------------- ayah bdeir - www.ayahbdeir.com MS. MIT Media Lab - www.media.mit.edu adjunct faculty at NYU - ab197(a)nyu.edu senior fellow at Eyebeam - www.eyebeam.org founder - www.littlebits.cc

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Open Source Hardware Definition draft & Sept Summit.
by Andrew Back 14 Jul '10

14 Jul '10

Hello, An Open Source Hardware Definition has been drafted and has a growing number of signatories, some of which are fairly prolific: http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW And in related news, there is to be an Open Source Hardware Summit in New York in September: http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/ Regards, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Meeting this Thursday.
by Andrew Back 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hello, Just to remind folks that if they intend on coming along on Thursday they will need to register: http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/ Apologies to those who have already registered. If possible try and arrive between 17:45 and 18:00. If you arrive later you may need to give one of us a call on the number of the door, so that we can come down and let you in. Regards, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Re: [oshug] [austin-hacker-space] More on open patent pools - Open Invention Network
by Bryan Bishop 24 Jun '10

24 Jun '10

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Matthew McCabe wrote: > Hmm, so where does this leave the inventor who does not have a day job and > wants to make a living creating new products? I am a bit torn on this issue R&D phase does take resources and money so that you can coast while your stuff doesn't actually exist yet. That's true. There are all sorts of arrangements to make that happen. After that, it's sales/branding mostly. > I am interested to look at hybrid models where a product IS protected by a > patent or copyright but much of the info needed to produce the thing is > given away for free. Thus, you basically choose to license the patent to > whomever wants to use it for personal or, possibly, commercial use. I have > been thinking about how to apply this idea and it is tricky... How, for > example, do you make a profit from something if you are giving it away for > free? Uh, how about you just use an open source hardware license (something akin to TAPR but not necessarily TAPR) and then a non-assert agreement (if you have a patent)? This is along the lines of the Creative Commons / Science Commons with the PPL license -- but there are some minor differences I recall. In the case of the Open Invention Network, they are literally transferring ownership of patents into the pool. IMHO transferring ownership of the patents is only because that's what everyone understands (everyone understands a patent pool) but it's not necessary, I think. You make money by selling kits, instructions, a good user experience. > I would love to hear other perspectives on this issue. Also, we may want to > schedule a talk with one of the IP attorneys in town to get an idea of how > to appropriately protect IP (or not). And to prod them a bit about these > hybrid models or just giving something away for free. I have been looking to work with (as in, hire/pay for) an IP attorney to help draft a better open source hardware license, plus non-assert agreements, for Gnusha- the open source tech co-op. However, I strongly encourage this to be completely separate from Austin Hackerspace internals-- that'd be cause for alarm and abandoning/jumping ship. - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Fwd: [FAB@HOME] Survey on community expectations in Fab@Home governance
by Bryan Bishop 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kampower <echez99(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:29 AM Subject: [FAB@HOME] Survey on community expectations in Fab@Home governance To: "Fab@Home Forums" <fabathome-forums(a)googlegroups.com> Hi everybody, I'm a masters student at TUHH, Technical University of Hamburg. As part of my master’s thesis, I am carrying out a survey to better understand your experience and expectations with regards to the organization of Open design projects. Your opinion as Fab@Home user and community member is very important to me! That's why I'm inviting you to fill out my survey. Answering the questions may take about 8-10 minutes. The individual responses will be kept strictly confidential, aggregated results will be published as soon as the survey is finished. If you are interested, I can also provide some specific results about the Fab@Home community. Please follow this link or copy to your browser if you experience any problems. http://cgi.tu-harburg.de/~somo1774/survey/index.php?sid=19333&newtest=Y&.<http://cgi.tu-harburg.de/%7Esomo1774/survey/index.php?sid=19333&newtest=Y&.> .. The survey is conducted on a per project basis. In case you receive my request more than once, it’s because you are involved in several communities. It would be great if you would fill out the survey more than once, for all projects which are relevant to you. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me. If you are interested in more details about this research work, please take a look at: http://open-innovation-projects.org/my-research/#part3 Thank you very much for your help! Best regards Marvelous marvelous.onwukamike(a)tu-harburg.de -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Fab@Home Forums" group. To post to this group, send email to fabathome-forums(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fabathome-forums+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<fabathome-forums%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fabathome-forums?hl=en. -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Additional speaker for OSHUG #3, 1st July.
by Andrew Back 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hello, Just to let folks know that Chris Dalby of Current Cost will be speaking about their Bridge [1] device, how this was prototyped with arduino and led to a hackable consumer device which is about to launch. So, along with concurrency.cc and LilyPad this makes for a pretty exciting line up for out third meeting. For more info see: http://oshug.org/event/3 And just to remind folks that they need to register. There is no cost, but this is something we have to do for reasons of security and health and safety. http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Fwd: [canadareprap] Survey on Community expectations in RepRap and MakerBot governance
by Bryan Bishop 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kampower <echez99(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:23 AM Subject: [canadareprap] Survey on Community expectations in RepRap and MakerBot governance To: Canadian RepRap Operators Group <canadareprap(a)googlegroups.com> Hi everybody, I'm a masters student at TUHH, Technical University of Hamburg. As part of my master’s thesis, I am carrying out a survey to better understand your experience and expectations with regards to the organization of Open design projects. Your opinion as MakerBot and RepRap user and community member is very important to me! That's why I'm inviting you to fill out my survey. Answering the questions may take about 8-10 minutes. The individual responses will be kept strictly confidential, aggregated results will be published as soon as the survey is finished. If you are interested, I can also provide some specific results about the MakerBot and RepRap community. Please follow this link or copy and or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't work. http://cgi.tu-harburg.de/~somo1774/survey/index.php?sid=19333&newtest=Y&lan… The survey is conducted on a per project basis. In case you receive my request more than once, it’s because you are involved in several communities. It would be great if you would fill out the survey more than once, for all projects which are relevant to you. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me. If you are interested in more details about this research work, please take a look at: http://open-innovation-projects.org/my-research/#part3 Thank you very much for your help! Best regards Marvelous marvelous.onwukamike(a)tu-harburg.de -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Canadian RepRap Operators Group" group. To post to this group, send email to canadareprap(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to canadareprap+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/canadareprap?hl=en. -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Event #3 — Arduino: An Open Hardware Success Story.
by Andrew Back 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hello, For the third meeting we'll be asking the question "what factors contribute to the success of an open source hardware project?", and using Arduino and derivatives LilyPad Arduino and the concurrency.cc board as the basis for an informal case study. We are hoping to confirm a third presentation on running an Arduino based business (offers to present are, as always, most welcome). Date: Thursday 1st July 2010 Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Location: Osmosoft, SW1 For further info see below or visit: http://oshug.org/event/3 To register: http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/ Regards, Andrew -- * Concurrency.cc - parallel programming for makers and artists The concurrency.cc project describes itself as "a group of educators and researchers exploring the development of tools that make parallel programming more accessible to more people. Our hope is that concurrency.cc will serve the community of developers surrounding parallel and concurrent languages on the Arduino and other low-cost embedded platforms." Adam Sampson is a research associate in the field of concurrent programming and complex systems simulation at the University of Kent. He has enjoyed electronics as a hobby ever since being told off for dismantling the family vacuum cleaner as a small child. Omer Kilic (twitter) is a research student at the University of Kent working on dynamically reconfigurable architectures and embedded systems. He is passionate about the open-source hardware movement and likes tinkering, so much so that he founded TinkerSoc, The University of Kent Tinkering Society. * LilyPad - an Arduino based platform for wearables and e-textiles The LilyPad Arduino is a microcontroller, plus a set of sewable electronic components designed so they can be put together to create interactive wearables or textiles based artworks. There is quite a range of components such as LEDS, sensors, buzzer, accelerometer and more that can be connected with conductive thread. The board is based on the ATmega168V/328Vand was designed and developed by Leah Buechley and SparkFun Electronics. Rain Ashford (twitter) is Senior Producer at BBC Learning where she is presently across the BBC's Media Literacy supertopic portal. During her 10 years at the BBC she has developed and produced many of the BBC's high priority sites and online activities. Passionate about technology, she recently started a Women in Technology network for her colleagues to discuss careers, training, raising their profile and encouraging women to look at careers in tech. She previously worked for BBC R&D as a Technologist where she worked on the groundbreaking R&DTV project and the BBC's developer network, BBC Backstage, she's a hardware hacker, coder, artist, gamer and blogger. -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Open source hardware worth $1billion by 2015.
by Andrew Back 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

According to an article in LinuxUser: http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/open-source-hardware-worth-1billion-by-2015/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Re: [oshug] Thursday's meeting.
by Andrew Katz 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

Hi Andrew As a matter of interest, how long would you like me to talk for? I was thinking maybe 30 mins? I was going to bring my presentation as a PDF/ODP on a memory stick. Presumably you have the technology to make this happen? Looking forward to seeing you later. Best wishes Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Back [mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com] Sent: 25 May 2010 12:50 To: oshug(a)oshug.org Subject: [oshug] Thursday's meeting. Hello, Just a quick note to remind people that if they are planning to come along on Thursday and have as yet not registered, to please do so as we are almost at capacity. http://oshugsust.eventbrite.com/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com _______________________________________________ oshug mailing list oshug(a)oshug.org http://oshug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oshug

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Leicester to trial (open source) hydrogen cars.
by Andrew Back 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Great news for Riversimple! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5a85a828-73eb-11df-87f5-00144feabdc0.html (apologies if you are not registered with ft.com - it's free, and I just decided to finally register...) I cannot remember the current status of the car, but I believe that they are making efforts to open source as much as possible of the associated design artefacts via the 40 Fires Foundation. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Lasersaur on kickstarter.com wants $10k to develop an open source laser cutter
by Bryan Bishop 31 May '10

31 May '10

Lasersaur http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/405545346/lasersaur-open-source-laser-c… """ The idea is simple: Design a laser cutter and make the building process repeatable for others. Here's the thing. Laser cutters are traditionally expensive ($30,000 to as much as you can spend) and there are a lot of artist, hackers, architects, designers, DIYers who could do great things with them- if they could afford one, or even get regular access to one. Pretty much anybody who is a maker could benefit from a laser cutter. Unfortunately, turnkey systems are expensive, and there isn't really a clear and simple way to build one. We can change this: with roughly six month of R&D time we can develop a laser cutter which anyone can build, use, and maintain. Most importantly this system will be open source which means anyone can improve and modify the design. Everyone should be able to have a laser cutter! Our goal is to design a 100W machine which is capable of cutting 1/2" (12.5mm) acrylic, wood, multiple layers of fabric or thin sheet metal. Why Laser cutters are a key technology for making things. Remember when people couldn't make their own videos, CDs or print out photos? Me neither (at least we try to forget). In many areas of media, the last century was quite the read-only culture where a few gatekeepers would sit on the means to produce everything. Not the best situation for creativity or for people with lots of cool ideas but no cash. When you look at robotics and fabrication this is still the case. In 2010, a reasonable laser cutter is still well over 30k and therefore outside the budget of most of us. However, we are at a point where this can change. We believe we are able to design a laser cutter that can be built for under 5k (a 100W version) and a budget version (25W) for under 3k. It would be completely open source and repeatable. How this will go down First of all, we need your support! Your pledge is what makes this project possible. Once our funding goal is reached, the first prototype will be formulated. With material testing and debugging underway we can make a solid alpha system in about 6 months. At this point, start checking your snail mail box for the alpha kit (see pledges on how to get one). Once our alpha testers have had a chance to geek out for a few months, we will launch into beta with the beta testers. Then collaborators. Our goal is to launch publicly within a few months thereafter, releasing the project, documentation and schematics to the greater good. We will offer the Lasersaur open source system as kits available to the public as well as offer documentation online for anyone wishing to build their system from scratch. Who we are We (addie and stefan) are alumi from NYU's ITP and more recently fellows at Eyebeam in New York City. Both are institutions dedicated to open source culture and experimentation with cutting edge technology. As individuals, and as collaborators, we have been designing open source software since 2002, hardware since 2006, and like sharing our ideas with the bigger community. Our first open source hardware system was launched in 2007 (CUBIT: the multitouch system, as well as the later Touchkit, 2008). These systems were covered internationally and nationally by media such as MIT Technology Review, The Economist, Der Standard and even CNN. Over the last half a decade, our open source hardware has been built and used by hundreds of people, labs and research universities or institutions. We believe that people should think globally and act locally and the open source movement has been instrumental for this. """ I was kicking around the same idea with a fellow in Austin, TX a while back but we had a sub-$1000 price target. I wonder if these eyebeam fellows will be wise enough to use EMC2? I hope so. - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Thursday's meeting.
by Andrew Back 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hello, Just a quick note to remind people that if they are planning to come along on Thursday and have as yet not registered, to please do so as we are almost at capacity. http://oshugsust.eventbrite.com/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Defensive Patent License
by Bryan Bishop 19 May '10

19 May '10

(I'll be currating responses at the openmanufacturing.org group, if anyone is interested in hearing all the responses..) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: shazzner <shazzner(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:29 AM Subject: [austin-hacker-space] Defensive Patent License To: Austin Hackerspace <austin-hacker-space(a)googlegroups.com> There is some new scuttlebutt over Defensive Patent Licenses as a way out for open-source software companies to avoid patent litigation against producing entities. I think this might be work for hardware along with software too, so we might see a Hackerspace defensive patent pool. Discuss. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/will-defensive-patent-license-be-ab… http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/dpl-and-fair-troll-business-model-m… -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Open Hardware Licensing and Models for Sustainability, 27th May.
by Andrew Back 09 May '10

09 May '10

Hello, For our second meeting we've presentations from Andrew Katz on licensing Open Source Hardware projects and a representative from Pay It Forward on Altruistic 3D printing using RepRap. - Free and open source software is mainstream. Free and open hardware isn't. Andrew is increasingly involved in open hardware, and considers what, if anything, is different about hardware which makes open projects a challenge, and whether it is possible to construct a licence, like the GPL, which has a copyleft element applicable to hardware. Andrew Katz is a partner at Moorcrofts LLP, a boutique law firm in England's Thames Valley and advises a wide range of businesses on free and open source related issues. He has lectured and published widely on the subject and is a founder editor of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review. Before becoming a solicitor, he trained as a barrister, and moonlighted as a programmer during his studies at Bar School, programming in Turbo Pascal. He has released software under the GPL. - Pay It Forward — Alturistic 3D Printing Pay It Forward is a movement to bootstrap the thingiverse using RepStrap machines to print parts to help other people get started with RepRap machines. Please register to attend via http://oshugsust.eventbrite.com and share via http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5849274/ . And thanks to Paul for further updates to http://oshug.org, including a shiny new logo! Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Fwd: [GOSH] One week left to contribute to GOSH! publication
by Bryan Bishop 06 May '10

06 May '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Jolliffe <daniel(a)danieljolliffe.ca> Date: Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:05 PM Subject: [GOSH] One week left to contribute to GOSH! publication To: GOSH! - Grounding Open Source Hardware <gosh(a)piksel.no> Hello all: here's the link to the provisional GOSH! publication. this version is pretty rough: we will begin text editing correcting typos in this version in the coming days. Layout stats in about 5 days, and we plan to be finished in eight. So, if you have something to contribute, now is the time! http://www.gosh2009.ca/wiki/index.php/Publication_Draft_May5 Daniel _______________________________________________ GOSH mailing list GOSH(a)piksel.no https://piksel.no/mailman/listinfo/gosh -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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June.
by Andrew Back 04 May '10

04 May '10

Hello, As Paul suggested there appears to be interest in doing something Arduino related for June. A few ideas were discussed in the pub last Thursday and my mental notes for this are along the lines of (corrections and additions are welcome): - Plenty of people doing Arduino intros etc, and so little point in doing yet another - What's interesting about Arduino is why it succeeded - suggested success can be largely attributed to community practices etc, and not the tech - Arduino community has diversity and it continues to grow in this respect... So, one idea was that we might have someone (ideally close to tinker.it) talk about the core Arduino approach and perhaps with emphasis on community. And then have a few other folks talk about derived projects, either from the perspective of "end user" or project lead or contributor. E.g.: - LilyPad - concurrency.cc board I think there is a really interesting story here concerned with why Arduino has been so successful, and some valuable lessons for new open source hardware projects. As ever we'd also love to hear of any suggestions for alternative themes that folks may have, either for June or for subsequent months. Cheers, Andrew PS. Details for the May meeting should be up on the website later this week. -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Flickr photos from last night
by Paul Downey 02 May '10

02 May '10

I uploaded some photos from last night, which I've added to a Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/oshug/pool/ and tagged them: "oshug", "oshug:event=1", "upcoming:event=5654428" which means they should show up on http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5654428 pages. Eventually! -- Paul (psd) http://blog.whatfettle.com

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Event #1
by hakan＠linebyte.co.uk 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Hi all, Let me tell you a few words. Thank you very much such an amazing and friendly meeting happened in there. Cos it wasn't quite technical/boring style. Timing was reasonable and well organized. For first meeting, it was fairly good sessions thanks to David for his XCore introduction and principles of architecture. Also Alan shared to vision of Amino project. Hopefully It will be affordable price, customised System on Chip/Stamp design for application specific solutions! Why double L1(unreachable L2) still in my mind :) Thanks a lot Paul, Andrew and all of you to make it done! Unfortunately I left before pub session anyway next time! PS: It was urgent situation charging my phone to return home. Greatly appreciated! Hakan

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RepRap talk and other suggestions.
by Andrew Back 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hello, Does anyone know of anyone who might be up for doing a talk on RepRap in May? Provisionally looking at the evening of Thursday 27th for OSHUG #2. Also pinged a licensing expert to see if he might be up for presenting on legal challenges with open source hardware, e.g. copyleft ineffective for hardware. I think this would nice complement a RepRap talk. Suggestions for other speakers and topics welcome. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Scicomp Homebrew Club for scientific instruments
by Bryan Bishop 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Hey all, here's a new one on the radars.. "Proposed special interest group for construction of low cost scientific devices, exploiting new components, open source hardware projects, with particular interest in the Arduino platform and interdisciplinary applications." .. from http://www.docstoc.com/docs/34667068/SCICOMP-HOMEBREW-CLUB or: http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/Haseloff/SciComp/intgrps/assets/SciComp_Homeb… And from the main site: http://www.scicomp.org.uk/ """ SciComp Homebrew Club New special interest group for construction of low cost scientific devices, exploiting new components, open source hardware projects, with particular interest in the Arduino platform and interdisciplinary applications. Interested in building stuff and DIY construction techniques? We are starting a group which will meet after the SciComp meetings - to talk about building low cost hardware and software devices and to show details of ongoing projects. If you are interested, contact Jim Haseloff at jh295(a)cam.ac.uk - or simply come along to the SciComp meeting on 12 Feb 2009. At the Feb 12 meeting, Vincent Rouilly and Tuur Van Balen will discuss the use of the arduino platform for DIY hardware construction. The Arduino platform is well suited to scientific work, where new sensors, optics detectors and computers can be linked. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing). Arduino projects can be stand-alone or they can communicate with software running on a computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP). See www.arduino.cc For more news about Physical Computing and DIY construction, see www.synbio.org.uk/hardware/scientific-computing-news.html """ - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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