---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adrian McEwen <adr...@mcqn.net>
Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:11 PM
Subject: [hsNW] Open Source Hardware Camp, Hebden Bridge, 15-16th September
2012.
To: does-liverpool@googlegroups.com, nw-hack-space@googlegroups.com,
arb...@gmail.com, Liverpool Linux User Group <liverp...@mailman.lug.org.uk>
There's lots of interesting open hardware stuff happening over the next
few months. After OggCamp in August, there's the Open Source Hardware Camp
in September. Andrew Back, who's organising it, has invited me over to
talk about the Internet of Things, and also help run one of the workshops
on the Sunday.
The Open Source Hardware User Group, which usually meets in and around
London, will be hosting the second OSHCamp just down the road (well,
relatively) in Hebden Bridge. With speakers from Leeds, Liverpool, London
and Manchester.
I've pasted details below and a link to registration (the cost is £10 and
includes lunch and tea/coffee on the Saturday). And should anyone be
interested in getting involved in helping to run a workshop on the Sunday
please contact Andrew direct at <arb...@gmail.com> <arb...@gmail.com>.
// Open Source Hardware Camp 2012
On the 15th September 2012, 09:00 - 16th September 2012, 16:00 at The
Birchcliffe Centre, Birchcliffe Road, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire,
HX7 8DG, UK
Open Source Hardware Camp 2012 will take place place in the north of
England in the Pennine town of Hebden Bridge. Building on the success
of last year's OSHCamp, it will be a weekend long event with nine
talks on the Saturday and four parallel workshops on the Sunday.
Hebden Bridge is approximately 1 hour by rail from Leeds and
Manchester. Budget accommodation is available at the Hebden Bridge
Hostel which adjoins the venue, with discounts available for group
bookings.
- Practical Experiences with the Google Android Accessory Development Kit
(ADK)
The ADK is an exciting development platform that makes it possible to
easily combine Android applications with custom hardware built around
Arduino. Such combinations have the best of both worlds by enabling
the creation of a mobile phone application with access to peripheral
devices that is only limited by your imagination.
This talk will cover two projects that extend what the phone can do by
integrating both input and output devices. And will cover some of the
dos and don'ts of using the ADK and associated IDEs. If time permits
there will also be a demonstration with a quick run through of the
code.
Paul Tanner is a consultant, developer and maker in wood, metal,
plastic, electronics and software. His day job is IT-based business
improvement for SMEs. By night he turns energy nut, creating tools to
optimise energy use. Paul graduated in electronics and was responsible
for hardware and software product development and customer services in
several product and service start-ups, switching to consulting in
2000.
As connecting hardware to the network becomes cheaper and cheaper
we're seeing the rise of what is being called the Internet of Things,
or “IoT” for short.
This talk will give an introduction to the Internet of Things and
explain how open hardware platforms such as Arduino are helping it
grow. With plenty of examples of IoT projects, from using sensors to
map global radiation levels to bakeries that tweet when the bread is
fresh out of the oven.
Adrian McEwen has been connecting odd things to the Internet since the
mid-90s. Starting with cash registers, and then as part of the team
who were first to put a web browser onto a mobile phone. As the mobile
phone and set-top box work became more mainstream he dropped down a
level to Arduino which led to Internet-enabled bubble machines and
chicken-food silos...
Adrian has been working with Arduino since 2008 — which is when
Bubblino, the aforementioned bubble machine which watches twitter, was
created — and is charge of the Arduino Ethernet library. He is based
in Liverpool, where he runs MCQN Ltd, a company that builds IoT
devices and products.
- Developing Linux on Embedded Devices
This talk will provide an introduction to developing Linux on embedded
devices. Firstly we will look at the capabilities of popular boards
such as the BeagleBone and the Raspberry Pi. Then using the example of
a BeagleBone controller for a 3D printer the talk with explain how to
develop for an embedded device. It will consider what comprises an
embedded Linux software stack. The talk will discuss boot loaders,
kernels and root filesystems. We will discuss what are the minimum
software packages required in a root file system. The talk will then
go on to consider the tools required to develop for an embedded
target. It will look at what tools are available to help the embedded
developer and speed up this development process. Once you have
developed your software you need to debug it. The talk will look at
what debugging tools are available for debugging embedded devices.
Melanie Rhianna Lewis started a life long love of electronics as a
child when her Dad helped her make a "crystal" radio with an ear
piece, a coil of wire, a diode and a radiator! At the same time the
home computer revolution started and she would lust after the "build
your own computers" advertised in the electronics magazines of the
time. She never got one but did end up the proud owner of a BBC Micro.
Melanie learnt everything she could about the machine and including
assembler, operating systems, drivers, interrupt, and, thanks to the
circuit diagram in the Advanced User Guide, digital electronics. After
the BBC Micro came the Acorn Archimedes and so started a long
relationship with ARM processors. In the 90s Melanie became interested
in Linux and then developed one of the first ARM Linux distributions
running on an Acorn RISC PC. The hobby became a job and Melanie
currently works for an embedded device consultancy near Bradford where
a lot of her work is still with ARM processors.
- Interfacing the Raspberry Pi to the World — Everything you need to
know about P1
You've received your Pi, set up a web server on it and maybe played a
few rounds of Quake. You're looking for a new challenge and suddenly
the header on the corner of the board catches your eye. A quick Google
search for "P1 Raspbery Pi" gets you to the eLinux wiki page on Low
level peripherals, and you suddenly realise that you can do all sorts
of fun stuff by adding extra bits to your Raspberry Pi using this
magical expansion port. Where do you start? Is it safe to connect a
motor directly to the pins? What sort of interesting components are
out there?
In this talk we will look at the ways we can communicate with the
outside world using the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi. We will explore
the mechanical, electrical and software side of things and talk about
a few example projects you can try at home, and the hardware
limitations will be covered and workarounds provided.
Omer Kilic is theoretically still a research student at the University
of Kent, although he intends to submit his thesis (which is about a
reconfigurable heterogeneous computing framework) pretty soon. He
likes tiny computers, things that 'just work' and beer. He currently
works for Erlang Solutions in London, exploring the use of Erlang
programming language in the Embedded Systems domain and develops tools
and support material to help the adoption of this technology.
This talk will also serve as an introduction for the Raspberry Pi
workshop on the Sunday, where we will explore the example projects
covered in more detail.
- Sensing Wearable Technology
An introduction to wearable technology that will include examples
which incorporate sensors, plus work which makes use of the LilyPad
Arduino, an open source, sewable microcontroller.
Rain Ashford creates wearable technology & electronic art, her most
recent work involves investigating physiological sensing technologies
and how they can be applied to wearable artworks to measure and
interpret moods, health and lifestyle data. Rain also creates fun,
interactive and aesthetically pleasing works that include gaming and
musical elements. She is keen to demonstrate that electronics,
components and circuitry doesn't have to be regarded as cold, boring,
hard and boxy and instead can be fun, colourful and elegant, plus be
integrated into an overall design of a work.
Rain’s background is in developing online activities for the BBC as a
Senior Producer at BBC Learning and also as Technologist at BBC R&D,
co-running BBC Backstage. She currently works as a freelance
consultant for the Open University and for Technocamps designing and
leading workshops in coding and electronics in the form of wearable
technology for 11-19 year-olds, plus is a PhD researcher, peering into
wearable electronics & art.
- Running OpenBTS in the Real World
This talk will explore the OpenBTS project and describe how it uses
software-defined radio and open source Internet telephony to create a
small but complete GSM mobile phone network.
Experiences of operating OpenBTS installations on the Pacific island
of Niue and at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert will be
covered, along with how OpenBTS has been integrated with other systems
for use in disaster relief. Licensing permitting there will also be a
live demonstration.
Tim Panton is a software engineer with a particular interest in
projects that blend web applications and person-to-person speech into
an integrated user
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Adrian McEwen <adr...@mcqn.net>
> Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:11 PM
> Subject: [hsNW] Open Source Hardware Camp, Hebden Bridge, 15-16th
> September 2012.
> To: does-liverpool@googlegroups.com, nw-hack-space@googlegroups.com,
> arb...@gmail.com, Liverpool Linux User Group <liverp...@mailman.lug.org.uk
> There's lots of interesting open hardware stuff happening over the next
> few months. After OggCamp in August, there's the Open Source Hardware Camp
> in September. Andrew Back, who's organising it, has invited me over to
> talk about the Internet of Things, and also help run one of the workshops
> on the Sunday.
> The Open Source Hardware User Group, which usually meets in and around
> London, will be hosting the second OSHCamp just down the road (well,
> relatively) in Hebden Bridge. With speakers from Leeds, Liverpool, London
> and Manchester.
> I've pasted details below and a link to registration (the cost is £10
> and includes lunch and tea/coffee on the Saturday). And should anyone be
> interested in getting involved in helping to run a workshop on the Sunday
> please contact Andrew direct at <arb...@gmail.com> <arb...@gmail.com>.
> // Open Source Hardware Camp 2012
> On the 15th September 2012, 09:00 - 16th September 2012, 16:00 at The
> Birchcliffe Centre, Birchcliffe Road, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire,
> HX7 8DG, UK
> Open Source Hardware Camp 2012 will take place place in the north of
> England in the Pennine town of Hebden Bridge. Building on the success
> of last year's OSHCamp, it will be a weekend long event with nine
> talks on the Saturday and four parallel workshops on the Sunday.
> Hebden Bridge is approximately 1 hour by rail from Leeds and
> Manchester. Budget accommodation is available at the Hebden Bridge
> Hostel which adjoins the venue, with discounts available for group
> bookings.
> - Practical Experiences with the Google Android Accessory Development Kit
> (ADK)
> The ADK is an exciting development platform that makes it possible to
> easily combine Android applications with custom hardware built around
> Arduino. Such combinations have the best of both worlds by enabling
> the creation of a mobile phone application with access to peripheral
> devices that is only limited by your imagination.
> This talk will cover two projects that extend what the phone can do by
> integrating both input and output devices. And will cover some of the
> dos and don'ts of using the ADK and associated IDEs. If time permits
> there will also be a demonstration with a quick run through of the
> code.
> Paul Tanner is a consultant, developer and maker in wood, metal,
> plastic, electronics and software. His day job is IT-based business
> improvement for SMEs. By night he turns energy nut, creating tools to
> optimise energy use. Paul graduated in electronics and was responsible
> for hardware and software product development and customer services in
> several product and service start-ups, switching to consulting in
> 2000.
> As connecting hardware to the network becomes cheaper and cheaper
> we're seeing the rise of what is being called the Internet of Things,
> or “IoT” for short.
> This talk will give an introduction to the Internet of Things and
> explain how open hardware platforms such as Arduino are helping it
> grow. With plenty of examples of IoT projects, from using sensors to
> map global radiation levels to bakeries that tweet when the bread is
> fresh out of the oven.
> Adrian McEwen has been connecting odd things to the Internet since the
> mid-90s. Starting with cash registers, and then as part of the team
> who were first to put a web browser onto a mobile phone. As the mobile
> phone and set-top box work became more mainstream he dropped down a
> level to Arduino which led to Internet-enabled bubble machines and
> chicken-food silos...
> Adrian has been working with Arduino since 2008 — which is when
> Bubblino, the aforementioned bubble machine which watches twitter, was
> created — and is charge of the Arduino Ethernet library. He is based
> in Liverpool, where he runs MCQN Ltd, a company that builds IoT
> devices and products.
> - Developing Linux on Embedded Devices
> This talk will provide an introduction to developing Linux on embedded
> devices. Firstly we will look at the capabilities of popular boards
> such as the BeagleBone and the Raspberry Pi. Then using the example of
> a BeagleBone controller for a 3D printer the talk with explain how to
> develop for an embedded device. It will consider what comprises an
> embedded Linux software stack. The talk will discuss boot loaders,
> kernels and root filesystems. We will discuss what are the minimum
> software packages required in a root file system. The talk will then
> go on to consider the tools required to develop for an embedded
> target. It will look at what tools are available to help the embedded
> developer and speed up this development process. Once you have
> developed your software you need to debug it. The talk will look at
> what debugging tools are available for debugging embedded devices.
> Melanie Rhianna Lewis started a life long love of electronics as a
> child when her Dad helped her make a "crystal" radio with an ear
> piece, a coil of wire, a diode and a radiator! At the same time the
> home computer revolution started and she would lust after the "build
> your own computers" advertised in the electronics magazines of the
> time. She never got one but did end up the proud owner of a BBC Micro.
> Melanie learnt everything she could about the machine and including
> assembler, operating systems, drivers, interrupt, and, thanks to the
> circuit diagram in the Advanced User Guide, digital electronics. After
> the BBC Micro came the Acorn Archimedes and so started a long
> relationship with ARM processors. In the 90s Melanie became interested
> in Linux and then developed one of the first ARM Linux distributions
> running on an Acorn RISC PC. The hobby became a job and Melanie
> currently works for an embedded device consultancy near Bradford where
> a lot of her work is still with ARM processors.
> - Interfacing the Raspberry Pi to the World — Everything you need to
> know about P1
> You've received your Pi, set up a web server on it and maybe played a
> few rounds of Quake. You're looking for a new challenge and suddenly
> the header on the corner of the board catches your eye. A quick Google
> search for "P1 Raspbery Pi" gets you to the eLinux wiki page on Low
> level peripherals, and you suddenly realise that you can do all sorts
> of fun stuff by adding extra bits to your Raspberry Pi using this
> magical expansion port. Where do you start? Is it safe to connect a
> motor directly to the pins? What sort of interesting components are
> out there?
> In this talk we will look at the ways we can communicate with the
> outside world using the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi. We will explore
> the mechanical, electrical and software side of things and talk about
> a few example projects you can try at home, and the hardware
> limitations will be covered and workarounds provided.
> Omer Kilic is theoretically still a research student at the University
> of Kent, although he intends to submit his thesis (which is about a
> reconfigurable heterogeneous computing framework) pretty soon. He
> likes tiny computers, things that 'just work' and beer. He currently
> works for Erlang Solutions in London, exploring the use of Erlang
> programming language in the Embedded Systems domain and develops tools
> and support material to help the adoption of this technology.
> This talk will also serve as an introduction for the Raspberry Pi
> workshop on the Sunday, where we will explore the example projects
> covered in more detail.
> - Sensing Wearable Technology
> An introduction to wearable technology that will include examples
> which incorporate sensors, plus work which makes use of the LilyPad
> Arduino, an open source, sewable microcontroller.
> Rain Ashford creates wearable technology & electronic art, her most
> recent work involves investigating physiological sensing technologies
> and how they can be applied to wearable artworks to measure and
> interpret moods, health and lifestyle data. Rain also creates fun,
> interactive and aesthetically pleasing works that include gaming and
> musical elements. She is keen to demonstrate that electronics,
> components and circuitry doesn't have to be regarded as cold, boring,
> hard and boxy and instead can be fun, colourful and elegant, plus be
> integrated into an overall design of a work.
> Rain’s background is in developing online activities for the BBC as a
> Senior Producer at BBC Learning and also as Technologist at BBC R&D,
> co-running BBC Backstage. She currently works as a freelance
> consultant for the Open University and for Technocamps designing and
> leading workshops in coding and electronics in the form of wearable
> technology for 11-19 year-olds, plus is a PhD researcher, peering into
> wearable electronics & art.
> - Running OpenBTS in the Real World
> This talk will explore the OpenBTS project and describe how it uses
> software-defined radio and open source Internet telephony to create a
> small but complete GSM mobile phone network.
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Adrian McEwen <adr...@mcqn.net>
>> Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:11 PM
>> Subject: [hsNW] Open Source Hardware Camp, Hebden Bridge, 15-16th
>> September 2012.
>> To: does-liverpool@googlegroups.com, nw-hack-space@googlegroups.com,
>> arb...@gmail.com, Liverpool Linux User Group <liverp...@mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> There's lots of interesting open hardware stuff happening over the next
>> few months. After OggCamp in August, there's the Open Source Hardware Camp
>> in September. Andrew Back, who's organising it, has invited me over to talk
>> about the Internet of Things, and also help run one of the workshops on the
>> Sunday.
>> The Open Source Hardware User Group, which usually meets in and around
>> London, will be hosting the second OSHCamp just down the road (well,
>> relatively) in Hebden Bridge. With speakers from Leeds, Liverpool, London
>> and Manchester.
>> I've pasted details below and a link to registration (the cost is £10 and
>> includes lunch and tea/coffee on the Saturday). And should anyone be
>> interested in getting involved in helping to run a workshop on the Sunday
>> please contact Andrew direct at <arb...@gmail.com>.
>> // Open Source Hardware Camp 2012
>> On the 15th September 2012, 09:00 - 16th September 2012, 16:00 at The
>> Birchcliffe Centre, Birchcliffe Road, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire,
>> HX7 8DG, UK
>> Open Source Hardware Camp 2012 will take place place in the north of
>> England in the Pennine town of Hebden Bridge. Building on the success
>> of last year's OSHCamp, it will be a weekend long event with nine
>> talks on the Saturday and four parallel workshops on the Sunday.
>> Hebden Bridge is approximately 1 hour by rail from Leeds and
>> Manchester. Budget accommodation is available at the Hebden Bridge
>> Hostel which adjoins the venue, with discounts available for group
>> bookings.
>> - Practical Experiences with the Google Android Accessory Development Kit
>> (ADK)
>> The ADK is an exciting development platform that makes it possible to
>> easily combine Android applications with custom hardware built around
>> Arduino. Such combinations have the best of both worlds by enabling
>> the creation of a mobile phone application with access to peripheral
>> devices that is only limited by your imagination.
>> This talk will cover two projects that extend what the phone can do by
>> integrating both input and output devices. And will cover some of the
>> dos and don'ts of using the ADK and associated IDEs. If time permits
>> there will also be a demonstration with a quick run through of the
>> code.
>> Paul Tanner is a consultant, developer and maker in wood, metal,
>> plastic, electronics and software. His day job is IT-based business
>> improvement for SMEs. By night he turns energy nut, creating tools to
>> optimise energy use. Paul graduated in electronics and was responsible
>> for hardware and software product development and customer services in
>> several product and service start-ups, switching to consulting in
>> 2000.
>> As connecting hardware to the network becomes cheaper and cheaper
>> we're seeing the rise of what is being called the Internet of Things,
>> or “IoT” for short.
>> This talk will give an introduction to the Internet of Things and
>> explain how open hardware platforms such as Arduino are helping it
>> grow. With plenty of examples of IoT projects, from using sensors to
>> map global radiation levels to bakeries that tweet when the bread is
>> fresh out of the oven.
>> Adrian McEwen has been connecting odd things to the Internet since the
>> mid-90s. Starting with cash registers, and then as part of the team
>> who were first to put a web browser onto a mobile phone. As the mobile
>> phone and set-top box work became more mainstream he dropped down a
>> level to Arduino which led to Internet-enabled bubble machines and
>> chicken-food silos...
>> Adrian has been working with Arduino since 2008 — which is when
>> Bubblino, the aforementioned bubble machine which watches twitter, was
>> created — and is charge of the Arduino Ethernet library. He is based
>> in Liverpool, where he runs MCQN Ltd, a company that builds IoT
>> devices and products.
>> - Developing Linux on Embedded Devices
>> This talk will provide an introduction to developing Linux on embedded
>> devices. Firstly we will look at the capabilities of popular boards
>> such as the BeagleBone and the Raspberry Pi. Then using the example of
>> a BeagleBone controller for a 3D printer the talk with explain how to
>> develop for an embedded device. It will consider what comprises an
>> embedded Linux software stack. The talk will discuss boot loaders,
>> kernels and root filesystems. We will discuss what are the minimum
>> software packages required in a root file system. The talk will then
>> go on to consider the tools required to develop for an embedded
>> target. It will look at what tools are available to help the embedded
>> developer and speed up this development process. Once you have
>> developed your software you need to debug it. The talk will look at
>> what debugging tools are available for debugging embedded devices.
>> Melanie Rhianna Lewis started a life long love of electronics as a
>> child when her Dad helped her make a "crystal" radio with an ear
>> piece, a coil of wire, a diode and a radiator! At the same time the
>> home computer revolution started and she would lust after the "build
>> your own computers" advertised in the electronics magazines of the
>> time. She never got one but did end up the proud owner of a BBC Micro.
>> Melanie learnt everything she could about the machine and including
>> assembler, operating systems, drivers, interrupt, and, thanks to the
>> circuit diagram in the Advanced User Guide, digital electronics. After
>> the BBC Micro came the Acorn Archimedes and so started a long
>> relationship with ARM processors. In the 90s Melanie became interested
>> in Linux and then developed one of the first ARM Linux distributions
>> running on an Acorn RISC PC. The hobby became a job and Melanie
>> currently works for an embedded device consultancy near Bradford where
>> a lot of her work is still with ARM processors.
>> - Interfacing the Raspberry Pi to the World — Everything you need to
>> know about P1
>> You've received your Pi, set up a web server on it and maybe played a
>> few rounds of Quake. You're looking for a new challenge and suddenly
>> the header on the corner of the board catches your eye. A quick Google
>> search for "P1 Raspbery Pi" gets you to the eLinux wiki page on Low
>> level peripherals, and you suddenly realise that you can do all sorts
>> of fun stuff by adding extra bits to your Raspberry Pi using this
>> magical expansion port. Where do you start? Is it safe to connect a
>> motor directly to the pins? What sort of interesting components are
>> out there?
>> In this talk we will look at the ways we can communicate with the
>> outside world using the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi. We will explore
>> the mechanical, electrical and software side of things and talk about
>> a few example projects you can try at home, and the hardware
>> limitations will be covered and workarounds provided.
>> Omer Kilic is theoretically still a research student at the University
>> of Kent, although he intends to submit his thesis (which is about a
>> reconfigurable heterogeneous computing framework) pretty soon. He
>> likes tiny computers, things that 'just work' and beer. He currently
>> works for Erlang Solutions in London, exploring the use of Erlang
>> programming language in the Embedded Systems domain and develops tools
>> and support material to help the adoption of this technology.
>> This talk will also serve as an introduction for the Raspberry Pi
>> workshop on the Sunday, where we will explore the example projects
>> covered in more detail.
>> - Sensing Wearable Technology
>> An introduction to wearable technology that will include examples
>> which incorporate sensors, plus work which makes use of the LilyPad
>> Arduino, an open source, sewable microcontroller.
>> Rain Ashford creates wearable technology & electronic art, her most
>> recent work involves investigating physiological sensing technologies
>> and how they can be applied to wearable artworks to measure and
>> interpret moods, health and lifestyle data. Rain also creates fun,
>> interactive and aesthetically pleasing works that include gaming and
>> musical elements. She is keen to demonstrate that electronics,
>> components and circuitry doesn't have to be regarded as cold, boring,
>> hard and boxy and instead can be fun, colourful and elegant, plus be
>> integrated into an overall design of a work.
>> Rain’s background is in developing online activities for the BBC as a
>> Senior Producer at BBC Learning and also as Technologist at BBC R&D,
>> co-running BBC Backstage. She currently works as a freelance
>> consultant for the Open University and for Technocamps designing and
>> leading workshops in coding and electronics in the form of wearable
>> technology for 11-19 year-olds, plus is a PhD researcher, peering into
>> wearable electronics & art.
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Adrian McEwen <adr...@mcqn.net>
>>> Date: Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:11 PM
>>> Subject: [hsNW] Open Source Hardware Camp, Hebden Bridge, 15-16th
>>> September 2012.
>>> To: does-liverpool@googlegroups.com, nw-hack-space@googlegroups.com,
>>> arb...@gmail.com, Liverpool Linux User Group <liverp...@mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>> There's lots of interesting open hardware stuff happening over the next
>>> few months. After OggCamp in August, there's the Open Source Hardware Camp
>>> in September. Andrew Back, who's organising it, has invited me over to talk
>>> about the Internet of Things, and also help run one of the workshops on the
>>> Sunday.
>>> The Open Source Hardware User Group, which usually meets in and around
>>> London, will be hosting the second OSHCamp just down the road (well,
>>> relatively) in Hebden Bridge. With speakers from Leeds, Liverpool, London
>>> and Manchester.
>>> I've pasted details below and a link to registration (the cost is £10 and
>>> includes lunch and tea/coffee on the Saturday). And should anyone be
>>> interested in getting involved in helping to run a workshop on the Sunday
>>> please contact Andrew direct at <arb...@gmail.com>.
>>> // Open Source Hardware Camp 2012
>>> On the 15th September 2012, 09:00 - 16th September 2012, 16:00 at The
>>> Birchcliffe Centre, Birchcliffe Road, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire,
>>> HX7 8DG, UK
>>> Open Source Hardware Camp 2012 will take place place in the north of
>>> England in the Pennine town of Hebden Bridge. Building on the success
>>> of last year's OSHCamp, it will be a weekend long event with nine
>>> talks on the Saturday and four parallel workshops on the Sunday.
>>> Hebden Bridge is approximately 1 hour by rail from Leeds and
>>> Manchester. Budget accommodation is available at the Hebden Bridge
>>> Hostel which adjoins the venue, with discounts available for group
>>> bookings.
>>> - Practical Experiences with the Google Android Accessory Development Kit
>>> (ADK)
>>> The ADK is an exciting development platform that makes it possible to
>>> easily combine Android applications with custom hardware built around
>>> Arduino. Such combinations have the best of both worlds by enabling
>>> the creation of a mobile phone application with access to peripheral
>>> devices that is only limited by your imagination.
>>> This talk will cover two projects that extend what the phone can do by
>>> integrating both input and output devices. And will cover some of the
>>> dos and don'ts of using the ADK and associated IDEs. If time permits
>>> there will also be a demonstration with a quick run through of the
>>> code.
>>> Paul Tanner is a consultant, developer and maker in wood, metal,
>>> plastic, electronics and software. His day job is IT-based business
>>> improvement for SMEs. By night he turns energy nut, creating tools to
>>> optimise energy use. Paul graduated in electronics and was responsible
>>> for hardware and software product development and customer services in
>>> several product and service start-ups, switching to consulting in
>>> 2000.
>>> As connecting hardware to the network becomes cheaper and cheaper
>>> we're seeing the rise of what is being called the Internet of Things,
>>> or “IoT” for short.
>>> This talk will give an introduction to the Internet of Things and
>>> explain how open hardware platforms such as Arduino are helping it
>>> grow. With plenty of examples of IoT projects, from using sensors to
>>> map global radiation levels to bakeries that tweet when the bread is
>>> fresh out of the oven.
>>> Adrian McEwen has been connecting odd things to the Internet since the
>>> mid-90s. Starting with cash registers, and then as part of the team
>>> who were first to put a web browser onto a mobile phone. As the mobile
>>> phone and set-top box work became more mainstream he dropped down a
>>> level to Arduino which led to Internet-enabled bubble machines and
>>> chicken-food silos...
>>> Adrian has been working with Arduino since 2008 — which is when
>>> Bubblino, the aforementioned bubble machine which watches twitter, was
>>> created — and is charge of the Arduino Ethernet library. He is based
>>> in Liverpool, where he runs MCQN Ltd, a company that builds IoT
>>> devices and products.
>>> - Developing Linux on Embedded Devices
>>> This talk will provide an introduction to developing Linux on embedded
>>> devices. Firstly we will look at the capabilities of popular boards
>>> such as the BeagleBone and the Raspberry Pi. Then using the example of
>>> a BeagleBone controller for a 3D printer the talk with explain how to
>>> develop for an embedded device. It will consider what comprises an
>>> embedded Linux software stack. The talk will discuss boot loaders,
>>> kernels and root filesystems. We will discuss what are the minimum
>>> software packages required in a root file system. The talk will then
>>> go on to consider the tools required to develop for an embedded
>>> target. It will look at what tools are available to help the embedded
>>> developer and speed up this development process. Once you have
>>> developed your software you need to debug it. The talk will look at
>>> what debugging tools are available for debugging embedded devices.
>>> Melanie Rhianna Lewis started a life long love of electronics as a
>>> child when her Dad helped her make a "crystal" radio with an ear
>>> piece, a coil of wire, a diode and a radiator! At the same time the
>>> home computer revolution started and she would lust after the "build
>>> your own computers" advertised in the electronics magazines of the
>>> time. She never got one but did end up the proud owner of a BBC Micro.
>>> Melanie learnt everything she could about the machine and including
>>> assembler, operating systems, drivers, interrupt, and, thanks to the
>>> circuit diagram in the Advanced User Guide, digital electronics. After
>>> the BBC Micro came the Acorn Archimedes and so started a long
>>> relationship with ARM processors. In the 90s Melanie became interested
>>> in Linux and then developed one of the first ARM Linux distributions
>>> running on an Acorn RISC PC. The hobby became a job and Melanie
>>> currently works for an embedded device consultancy near Bradford where
>>> a lot of her work is still with ARM processors.
>>> - Interfacing the Raspberry Pi to the World — Everything you need to
>>> know about P1
>>> You've received your Pi, set up a web server on it and maybe played a
>>> few rounds of Quake. You're looking for a new challenge and suddenly
>>> the header on the corner of the board catches your eye. A quick Google
>>> search for "P1 Raspbery Pi" gets you to the eLinux wiki page on Low
>>> level peripherals, and you suddenly realise that you can do all sorts
>>> of fun stuff by adding extra bits to your Raspberry Pi using this
>>> magical expansion port. Where do you start? Is it safe to connect a
>>> motor directly to the pins? What sort of interesting components are
>>> out there?
>>> In this talk we will look at the ways we can communicate with the
>>> outside world using the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi. We will explore
>>> the mechanical, electrical and software side of things and talk about
>>> a few example projects you can try at home, and the hardware
>>> limitations will be covered and workarounds provided.
>>> Omer Kilic is theoretically still a research student at the University
>>> of Kent, although he intends to submit his thesis (which is about a
>>> reconfigurable heterogeneous computing framework) pretty soon. He
>>> likes tiny computers, things that 'just work' and beer. He currently
>>> works for Erlang Solutions in London, exploring the use of Erlang
>>> programming language in the Embedded Systems domain and develops tools
>>> and support material to help the adoption of this technology.
>>> This talk will also serve as an introduction for the Raspberry Pi
>>> workshop on the Sunday, where we will explore the example projects
>>> covered in more detail.
>>> - Sensing Wearable Technology
>>> An introduction to wearable technology that will include examples
>>> which incorporate sensors, plus work which makes use of the LilyPad
>>> Arduino, an open source, sewable microcontroller.
>>> Rain Ashford creates wearable technology & electronic art, her most
>>> recent work involves investigating physiological sensing technologies
>>> and how they can be applied to wearable artworks to measure and
>>> interpret moods, health and lifestyle data. Rain also creates fun,
>>> interactive and aesthetically pleasing works that include gaming and
>>> musical elements. She is keen to demonstrate that electronics,
>>> components and circuitry doesn't have to be regarded as cold, boring,
>>> hard and boxy and instead can be fun, colourful and elegant, plus be
>>> integrated into an overall design of a work.
>>> Rain’s background is in developing online activities for the BBC as a
>>> Senior Producer at BBC Learning and also as Technologist at BBC R&D,
>>> co-running BBC Backstage. She currently
