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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.
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arb...@gmail.com, Liverpool Linux User Group <
live...@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
— Registration: http://oshug.org/event/oshcamp2012
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.
If you can't wait
to get your hands on the ADK software browse to
http://developer.android.com/tools/adk.
- The Internet of
Things and Arduino
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 experience. He has many years hands-on experience
with the OpenBTS
project, working closely with the core development
team on numerous
installations.
Tim is currently
working on the Phono.com, Tropo.com and Rayo.org
products at
VoxeoLabs, producing web developer-friendly APIs by using
XMPP protocols to
drive innovative telephony applications that can be
used anywhere by
anyone.
- The 3D Printed
Revolution
Over recent years
Open Source 3D printers have quickly developed
alongside their
commercial counterparts offering affordable and
accessible
alternatives. This talk will cover experiences using
commercial
printers and how the speaker's interests have moved to open
source designs
and how the two compare. Examples will be shown of
projects using
these technologies, such as "Fable", a clock
manufactured by
Selective Laser Sintering, and a wrist watch designed
to be printed on
a RepRap. There will also be a run through of the
design
considerations and how files were created, fixed and sliced in
preparation to
print on a RepRap.
Mark Gilbert
graduated in 2000 from Sheffield Hallam University with a
degree in
Industrial Design Innovation. After several years working as
a design
engineer, Mark started working as a freelance industrial
designer for
several companies in the Northwest. Over the last 6 years
he has also
worked closely with the Bolton Science and Technology
Centre as the
"Designer in Residence" where he has developed workshops
around the
centre's 3D printing and CAD facilities.
In 2008 Mark set
up the design studio Gilbert13 with his wife Angela
where they design
and develop products inspired by experimentation
into digital
manufacturing processes, 3D printing and additive
manufacturing.
Recent projects have taken their experience from rapid
prototyping to
use 3D printing as a manufacturing tool that can change
the way people
design, co create and distribute objects.
- The Bots are
Coming
In the last two
decades we have seen software and data change the
fabric of
economics, and the advent of personal computing and the
Internet enable
many new business models. However, the next two
decades will be
even more radical as that wave of innovation shifts
from the virtual
domain to a physical manifestation. Atoms are the new
bits and the open
sourcing and democratisation of bot technology is
allowing us to
enter into an era of personal production. And this talk
will explore how
3D printing and additive manufacturing are
revolutionising
production as we know it.
Alan Wood
originally trained in systems engineering, got lost in
software
engineering and open source for a decade, before returning
back to his
hardware roots via the open source hardware and makers
movement that has
gathered momentum over the last few years.
- DIYBIO - The
Next Frontier
DIYBIOMCR is an
public group based at MadLab dedicated to making
biology an
accessible pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur
biologists and
biological engineers who value openness and safety.
This talk will
give an overview of the movement, and what is going on
at MadLab
involving not only biology but also diverse fields such as
hardware-hackers,
artists, journalists and the open-source movement.
Hwa Young Jung is
a co-founder and a director of MadLab, a community
centre for
creative, tech and science based the Manchester. Over 50
user groups meet
once a month, including DIYBIOMCR, initially a joint
funded project
with MMU and the Wellcome Trust.
** Sunday
Workshops
Workshops will be
reasonably informal and shaped by the participants,
and details are
subject to change depending upon the level of interest
expressed.
Please feel free
to bring along equipment and components provided that
you are able to
take full responsibility for your own personal safety
and that of
others. Common sense should be exercised!
- Practical IoT
Applications with the Google ADK and Arduino
Hands on IoT
building sessions that follow on from Saturday's ADK and
Arduino talks.
- Interfacing the
Raspberry Pi to the World
- Here you will
learn how to connect a selection of devices to your
Raspberry Pi
utilising the methods discussed during Saturday's talk.
We will have a
few Raspberry Pi boards available for the workshop but
please bring your
own if you were one of the lucky ones to have
received one.
- Building GSM
Networks with Open Source
A look at the
practical steps involved in creating a low power GSM
network using
open source technology.
Note: this
workshop will be subject to a spectrum licence being granted.
- Practical 3D
Printing
Details TBC.
Note:
* Please aim to
arrive for 09:00 on the Saturday as the event will
start at 09:30
prompt.
* A light lunch
and refreshments will be provided on the Saturday.
Sponsored by:
Capital
SCF: http://www.capitalscf.com
DesignSpark: http://www.designspark.com
Cosm:
https://cosm.com
OSHCamp kit bags provided by:
SK Pang:
http://www.skpang.co.uk
Oomlout:
http://oomlout.com
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