Wuthering Bytes and EDSAC on FPGA

[Marcus Baw]

Hi NHSHackDayers!

This is one for the more 'techy' people on the list, but the organiser of this free event -

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chiphack-edsac-challenge-registration-35008847405

- has been trying to reach out to wider audiences outside of the known chiphacking community, so I thought might be of interest to some on this list. It's a 2 day course showing you how to create custom hardware using FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) starting from ultra-basics and leading up to creating a replica of the EDSAC - a very basic early computer, with guidance and teaching all the way.

It's part of a wider http://wutheringbytes.com hacker/tech festival in Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire from the 1st - 10th September.

I'm probably going to busy post-moving house but I might try and make some of it.

Marcus