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folkn...@googlemail.com
Apr 26, 2009, 4:17:46 PM4/26/09
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I have set the next meetup date for Open Hardware Hackers on 13th May
at the ICA
This time I have also set it up on Upcoming http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2503354/?ps=7
One of the reason for choosing this date (and a Wednesday) is because
London Hackspace are also meeting in the evening at the coach & Horses
which is of interest to some of us see here :
http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/51570868534f7100
That way we can attend both events and kill two birds with one stone.
Some of us therefore are likely to be around until 7pm for those
wishing to join us after work.
As usual all are welcome, if you know someone that may be interested
pass it on.
regards
Al
at the ICA
This time I have also set it up on Upcoming http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2503354/?ps=7
One of the reason for choosing this date (and a Wednesday) is because
London Hackspace are also meeting in the evening at the coach & Horses
which is of interest to some of us see here :
http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/51570868534f7100
That way we can attend both events and kill two birds with one stone.
Some of us therefore are likely to be around until 7pm for those
wishing to join us after work.
As usual all are welcome, if you know someone that may be interested
pass it on.
regards
Al
folkn...@googlemail.com
May 6, 2009, 5:33:34 AM5/6/09
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1 Week to go until next OHH meetup, the chances are that we will have
a guest from Oomlout (http://www.oomlout.com/) to talk about what they
have been up to recently. Oomlout have some fascinating projects
underway and its worth tracking their blog (http://www.oomlout.com/
blog/) or their Twitter precence @oomlout (http://twitter.com/
oomlout). Their Breadboard Based Arduino Compatible (BBAC) Micro-
Controller is one such example, as is their RARM robotic arm. they are
in the process of moving over to the UK (from Canada) to Leeds in fact
as we speak so lets make sure they get a good OHH welcome.
regards
Al
a guest from Oomlout (http://www.oomlout.com/) to talk about what they
have been up to recently. Oomlout have some fascinating projects
underway and its worth tracking their blog (http://www.oomlout.com/
blog/) or their Twitter precence @oomlout (http://twitter.com/
oomlout). Their Breadboard Based Arduino Compatible (BBAC) Micro-
Controller is one such example, as is their RARM robotic arm. they are
in the process of moving over to the UK (from Canada) to Leeds in fact
as we speak so lets make sure they get a good OHH welcome.
regards
Al
folkn...@googlemail.com
May 6, 2009, 5:47:41 AM5/6/09
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Just a note the London Hackspace guys cancelled their May 13th meeting
so we won't be joining them they are actually meeting tonight details
here : http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2488827/
so we won't be joining them they are actually meeting tonight details
here : http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2488827/
folkn...@googlemail.com
May 8, 2009, 7:06:32 AM5/8/09
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A Quick update
Oomlout have confirmed that they will be attending on Wednesday, so I
for one am looking forward to chatting to them about their projects.
They definitely have an interesting combination of skills in their
projects and I think we can all learn something from their work. I
hope you can join us for the meetup as it looks like it will be an
interesting one.
Just a reminder about location, we are meeting at the usual location
in the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) cafe on the mall here is
the directions:
http://www.ica.org.uk/visit. Nearest tube is charing cross
The cafe offers good food, beverages and operates a licensed bar as
well as providing access to the bookshop and ICA itself of course. The
meeting is as usual informal and everyone is invited to just come
along and chat about hardware, hacking, electronics & development, If
you are just getting into hardware then there is lots of help and
advice.
I will be there from about 3pm onwards and will probably leave by
about 7pm depending on who is still around.
regards
Al
Oomlout have confirmed that they will be attending on Wednesday, so I
for one am looking forward to chatting to them about their projects.
They definitely have an interesting combination of skills in their
projects and I think we can all learn something from their work. I
hope you can join us for the meetup as it looks like it will be an
interesting one.
Just a reminder about location, we are meeting at the usual location
in the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) cafe on the mall here is
the directions:
http://www.ica.org.uk/visit. Nearest tube is charing cross
The cafe offers good food, beverages and operates a licensed bar as
well as providing access to the bookshop and ICA itself of course. The
meeting is as usual informal and everyone is invited to just come
along and chat about hardware, hacking, electronics & development, If
you are just getting into hardware then there is lots of help and
advice.
I will be there from about 3pm onwards and will probably leave by
about 7pm depending on who is still around.
regards
Al
.: oomlout :.
May 12, 2009, 5:53:27 PM5/12/09
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See you there and looking forward to it.
Fear I may not be there right at the beginning but should be able to
make it by five at the latest. Hope I don't miss the best bit.
Aaron
Fear I may not be there right at the beginning but should be able to
make it by five at the latest. Hope I don't miss the best bit.
Aaron
folkn...@googlemail.com
May 13, 2009, 4:58:21 AM5/13/09
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People are likely to arrive at slightly different times according to
feedback this week, so don't worry Aaron your not alone!
Looking forward to meeting you later
regards
Al
feedback this week, so don't worry Aaron your not alone!
Looking forward to meeting you later
regards
Al
folkn...@googlemail.com
May 14, 2009, 7:57:12 AM5/14/09
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Excellent meeting and good turnout heres some recollections from the
meetup:
Rob's Beehive monitoring project is coming on a treat you can now
follow its status on twitter @beehiveyourself (http://twitter.com/
beehiveyourself). Robs idea to hack maplin's weather station has
enabled him to crack it in double quick time, nice hacking Rob.
We also had some fascinating guests showing some of their work:
Aaron from Oomlout brought along an Arduino based robot and the really
cool Arduino starter kit which includes breadboard layout printouts to
help you get up to speed quickly as well all the wires and components
needed to get hacking, thanks for making the time to attend, it was
great to meet you and everyone was impressed by the work you guys are
doing. checkout Oomlout here http://www.oomlout.com/ or follow them
on twitter @oomlout
Peter Knight (@cathedrow) from Tinkerit (http://tinker.it) also
attended and showed us his passive neon flashing army, not for the
faint hearted his 90 volt PSU heath robinson'd from 10 PP3s wired in
series driving the passive neon/resistor/capacitor flash nodes on the
breadboard. If your gonna try this from home folks you may need rubber
gloves for his shocking display! Peter also provided us with a brief
potted history of Arduino and a fascinating insight into the real nuts
and bolts of the code that drives it. Thanks Peter I think your
knowledge in this area blew us all away you certainly know your stuff.
I brought in my Beagleboard and Nigel (@ni) brought along his
Boarduino a really tiny Arduino clone not much bigger than my index
finger! he also talked about his success at the recent Yahoo Hack
weekend. We discussed the possibilities of getting both Processing and
OpenFrameworks running on the Beagleboard to provide a small footprint
platform that removes the need for a full blown PC, so we will be
starting work on that shortly will keep everyone in the link. Further
we discussed the posibility of creating the 'Inbetweeno' a board that
sits in between the functionality of a Arduino and a Beagleboard,
probably ARM based (cortexM3/M0) operating something like freeRTOS
with a user freindly layer possibly using an actor/event model in
Obective-C (Peter was also interested in this, so if you have time
consider yourself on the team). We also have to come up with a better
name, suggestions here please here's one to get your phonemes flowing -
> the 'Armadillo' ;-)
We also discussed the on coming bun fight between Intel and Arm, the
world dominance that could result from the Arduino dongle (as
contrasted to opensource software's PC dongle), Audiono duets,Fritzing
virtualised breadboards,The merits of Amtel chipsets with and without
USB, python hacking usb data, Low powered RF comms and Zigbee meshes,
Iphone battery failures, the Tuttle club, surface mount construction,
hacking secondhand netbooks for motherboards recycling and much much
more....
Overall a great meetup thanks for all those that came if you want to
leave any further notes, links or comments fro the meeting please feel
free do so on this thread.
regards
Al
meetup:
Rob's Beehive monitoring project is coming on a treat you can now
follow its status on twitter @beehiveyourself (http://twitter.com/
beehiveyourself). Robs idea to hack maplin's weather station has
enabled him to crack it in double quick time, nice hacking Rob.
We also had some fascinating guests showing some of their work:
Aaron from Oomlout brought along an Arduino based robot and the really
cool Arduino starter kit which includes breadboard layout printouts to
help you get up to speed quickly as well all the wires and components
needed to get hacking, thanks for making the time to attend, it was
great to meet you and everyone was impressed by the work you guys are
doing. checkout Oomlout here http://www.oomlout.com/ or follow them
on twitter @oomlout
Peter Knight (@cathedrow) from Tinkerit (http://tinker.it) also
attended and showed us his passive neon flashing army, not for the
faint hearted his 90 volt PSU heath robinson'd from 10 PP3s wired in
series driving the passive neon/resistor/capacitor flash nodes on the
breadboard. If your gonna try this from home folks you may need rubber
gloves for his shocking display! Peter also provided us with a brief
potted history of Arduino and a fascinating insight into the real nuts
and bolts of the code that drives it. Thanks Peter I think your
knowledge in this area blew us all away you certainly know your stuff.
I brought in my Beagleboard and Nigel (@ni) brought along his
Boarduino a really tiny Arduino clone not much bigger than my index
finger! he also talked about his success at the recent Yahoo Hack
weekend. We discussed the possibilities of getting both Processing and
OpenFrameworks running on the Beagleboard to provide a small footprint
platform that removes the need for a full blown PC, so we will be
starting work on that shortly will keep everyone in the link. Further
we discussed the posibility of creating the 'Inbetweeno' a board that
sits in between the functionality of a Arduino and a Beagleboard,
probably ARM based (cortexM3/M0) operating something like freeRTOS
with a user freindly layer possibly using an actor/event model in
Obective-C (Peter was also interested in this, so if you have time
consider yourself on the team). We also have to come up with a better
name, suggestions here please here's one to get your phonemes flowing -
> the 'Armadillo' ;-)
We also discussed the on coming bun fight between Intel and Arm, the
world dominance that could result from the Arduino dongle (as
contrasted to opensource software's PC dongle), Audiono duets,Fritzing
virtualised breadboards,The merits of Amtel chipsets with and without
USB, python hacking usb data, Low powered RF comms and Zigbee meshes,
Iphone battery failures, the Tuttle club, surface mount construction,
hacking secondhand netbooks for motherboards recycling and much much
more....
Overall a great meetup thanks for all those that came if you want to
leave any further notes, links or comments fro the meeting please feel
free do so on this thread.
regards
Al
robert.oca...@googlemail.com
May 14, 2009, 8:52:58 AM5/14/09
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Thanks for running it Al - had a great time and my brain was spinning
with new ideas on the train home.
Love the idea of an inbetweeno - I need a headless unix box that can
run on very little power and can be connected/cooled/waterproofed
cheaply.
Rob.
On 14 May, 12:57, folknol...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Excellent meeting and good turnout heres some recollections from the
> meetup:
>
> Rob's Beehive monitoring project is coming on a treat you can now
> follow its status on twitter @beehiveyourself (http://twitter.com/
> beehiveyourself). Robs idea to hack maplin's weather station has
> enabled him to crack it in double quick time, nice hacking Rob.
>
> We also had some fascinating guests showing some of their work:
>
> Aaron from Oomlout brought along an Arduino based robot and the really
> cool Arduino starter kit which includes breadboard layout printouts to
> help you get up to speed quickly as well all the wires and components
> needed to get hacking, thanks for making the time to attend, it was
> great to meet you and everyone was impressed by the work you guys are
> doing. checkout Oomlout herehttp://www.oomlout.com/ or follow them
with new ideas on the train home.
Love the idea of an inbetweeno - I need a headless unix box that can
run on very little power and can be connected/cooled/waterproofed
cheaply.
Rob.
On 14 May, 12:57, folknol...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Excellent meeting and good turnout heres some recollections from the
> meetup:
>
> Rob's Beehive monitoring project is coming on a treat you can now
> follow its status on twitter @beehiveyourself (http://twitter.com/
> beehiveyourself). Robs idea to hack maplin's weather station has
> enabled him to crack it in double quick time, nice hacking Rob.
>
> We also had some fascinating guests showing some of their work:
>
> Aaron from Oomlout brought along an Arduino based robot and the really
> cool Arduino starter kit which includes breadboard layout printouts to
> help you get up to speed quickly as well all the wires and components
> needed to get hacking, thanks for making the time to attend, it was
> great to meet you and everyone was impressed by the work you guys are
Michael Fisher
May 14, 2009, 9:26:17 AM5/14/09
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As an Open Hardware Hackers supporter who will probably not make any of
the meetings due to living in the US I thought I would chime in
regarding the headless computing. I recently purchased the SheevaPlug Development kit and find it really cool with a lot of potential. It runs about $99 USD with larger quantities even less. It runs a flavor of Debian and has a network connection and USB. check it out at:
http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp
By the way, I enjoyed the descriptions of the meeting even though I could not attend so keep up the details of the meetings for those of us out of walking distance.
Regards,
Mike
--
Michael Fisher
desN...@gmail.com
Sent from New York, United States
http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp
By the way, I enjoyed the descriptions of the meeting even though I could not attend so keep up the details of the meetings for those of us out of walking distance.
Regards,
Mike
--
Michael Fisher
desN...@gmail.com
Sent from New York, United States
folkn...@googlemail.com
May 14, 2009, 9:54:47 AM5/14/09
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Hi Michael
Great suggestion, I'd forgotten about Marvel's Kirkwood work (they are
not well represented over here yet) the SheevaPlug sdk would be
excellent and lower cost than say the Beagleboard. I haven't had one
to play with but it looks really promising.
As for not being able to meetup thats a real shame, maybe you could
consider starting your own meetups in your vicinity (New York?) and
using this list. We would love to see meetups happening everywhere
people share these common interests and principles. Obviously you
could then share New York OHH posie meetups with us here!
regards
Al
On 14 May, 14:26, Michael Fisher <desno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As an Open Hardware Hackers supporter who will probably not make any of the
> meetings due to living in the US I thought I would chime in regarding the
> headless computing. I recently purchased the SheevaPlug Development kit and
> find it really cool with a lot of potential. It runs about $99 USD with
> larger quantities even less. It runs a flavor of Debian and has a network
> connection and USB. check it out at:
>
> http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwoo...
Great suggestion, I'd forgotten about Marvel's Kirkwood work (they are
not well represented over here yet) the SheevaPlug sdk would be
excellent and lower cost than say the Beagleboard. I haven't had one
to play with but it looks really promising.
As for not being able to meetup thats a real shame, maybe you could
consider starting your own meetups in your vicinity (New York?) and
using this list. We would love to see meetups happening everywhere
people share these common interests and principles. Obviously you
could then share New York OHH posie meetups with us here!
regards
Al
On 14 May, 14:26, Michael Fisher <desno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As an Open Hardware Hackers supporter who will probably not make any of the
> meetings due to living in the US I thought I would chime in regarding the
> headless computing. I recently purchased the SheevaPlug Development kit and
> find it really cool with a lot of potential. It runs about $99 USD with
> larger quantities even less. It runs a flavor of Debian and has a network
> connection and USB. check it out at:
>
>
> By the way, I enjoyed the descriptions of the meeting even though I could
> not attend so keep up the details of the meetings for those of us out of
> walking distance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael Fisher
> desNo...@gmail.com
> By the way, I enjoyed the descriptions of the meeting even though I could
> not attend so keep up the details of the meetings for those of us out of
> walking distance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael Fisher
> Sent from New York, United States
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:52 AM, robert.ocallaghan...@googlemail.com <
>
>
> robert.ocallaghan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for running it Al - had a great time and my brain was spinning
> > with new ideas on the train home.
>
> > Love the idea of an inbetweeno - I need a headless unix box that can
> > run on very little power and can be connected/cooled/waterproofed
> > cheaply.
>
> > Rob.
>
> > On 14 May, 12:57, folknol...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > > Excellent meeting and good turnout heres some recollections from the
> > > meetup:
>
> > > Rob's Beehive monitoring project is coming on a treat you can now
> > > follow its status on twitter @beehiveyourself (http://twitter.com/
> > > beehiveyourself). Robs idea to hack maplin's weather station has
> > > enabled him to crack it in double quick time, nice hacking Rob.
>
> > > We also had some fascinating guests showing some of their work:
>
> > > Aaron from Oomlout brought along an Arduino based robot and the really
> > > cool Arduino starter kit which includes breadboard layout printouts to
> > > help you get up to speed quickly as well all the wires and components
> > > needed to get hacking, thanks for making the time to attend, it was
> > > great to meet you and everyone was impressed by the work you guys are
> > > doing. checkout Oomlout herehttp://www.oomlout.com/or follow them
> robert.ocallaghan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for running it Al - had a great time and my brain was spinning
> > with new ideas on the train home.
>
> > Love the idea of an inbetweeno - I need a headless unix box that can
> > run on very little power and can be connected/cooled/waterproofed
> > cheaply.
>
> > Rob.
>
> > On 14 May, 12:57, folknol...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > > Excellent meeting and good turnout heres some recollections from the
> > > meetup:
>
> > > Rob's Beehive monitoring project is coming on a treat you can now
> > > follow its status on twitter @beehiveyourself (http://twitter.com/
> > > beehiveyourself). Robs idea to hack maplin's weather station has
> > > enabled him to crack it in double quick time, nice hacking Rob.
>
> > > We also had some fascinating guests showing some of their work:
>
> > > Aaron from Oomlout brought along an Arduino based robot and the really
> > > cool Arduino starter kit which includes breadboard layout printouts to
> > > help you get up to speed quickly as well all the wires and components
> > > needed to get hacking, thanks for making the time to attend, it was
> > > great to meet you and everyone was impressed by the work you guys are
Michael Fisher
May 14, 2009, 3:44:19 PM5/14/09
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Hi Al,
There must have been a glitch today with Google when it said my email was from New York. I really live in Tampa, FL and unfortunately the number of 'outed' open source geeks is pretty low. But if I can get some people on this side of the 'lake' we will certainly add to the group.
I am currently doing some research on ZigBee components that run using Python. As soon as I get some more information I will share.
Regards,
Mike
folkn...@googlemail.com
May 20, 2009, 9:48:31 AM5/20/09
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OMG I just seen the newly announced Leopardboard (http://
www.leopardboard.org/) I think we may have found a new candidate for
the 'Inbetweeno'!
Hey rob this would be killer for the next version of your Beehave
yoursefl project as it could do the web cam along with everything
else!!
My cup brimeth over there is so much going on in this space, you just
have to think of something and 'bing' the internet singularity
conjures it up ;-)
regards
Al
www.leopardboard.org/) I think we may have found a new candidate for
the 'Inbetweeno'!
Hey rob this would be killer for the next version of your Beehave
yoursefl project as it could do the web cam along with everything
else!!
My cup brimeth over there is so much going on in this space, you just
have to think of something and 'bing' the internet singularity
conjures it up ;-)
regards
Al
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