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I've been invited by Andrew Back to give a talk during the OSHUG #8 to present the Milkymist project.
OSHUG means "Open Source Hardware User Group". It's located in London. The OSHUG has already done 7 events like this one, too bad I couldn't come, they looked all very interesting, here is the list of their events : http://oshug.org/
I have to say those guys are really welcoming and friendly !
You can find the slides I used there and the sources of the slides there, the slides are under CC-by-SA license.
I met really interesting and nice people at this OSHUG event, it was really great !
I met Ömer Kiliç (blog, twitter), hardware designer of the concurrency.cc, an "arduino like" board.
The design adds a connector to wire a battery and several colored LEDs. But what's really interesting about the concurrency.cc arduino is the way of programming it
You can program it using the occam-π programming language. A book has been written about how to program arduinos with this language.
The nice thing is it's a concurrent language, like in HDL. You can tell the arduino to execute several statements in parallel.
for example just do
PAR
blink (11 , 500)
blink (12 , 500)
And two LEDs are gonna blink simultaneously at the same frequency. Brilliant isn't it ? And bloody easy ! blink() is an example, you can put whatever function you want, f() ... g() ... etc ! I also met Nick Ager the director of get it made , his web site looks great, especially the video which is really funny :) I met a lot of other really interesting people, I don't remember all the names (sorry guys, I have a really bad memory for names ! I remember the two I quoted because they gave me their business card !!). I've been told about Xmos chips and the programming style which is highly parallel too and event driven and resembles a lot the FPGA programming style. I really enjoyed the OSHUG #8, I am blogging to report about my experience at this event and to thank everyone who came to listen to my talk and the guys who did the organization (mostly Andrew I suppose). Very nice meeting you guys, see you around :) Some pictures of the event on flickr :
Some goodies they gave me (thanks ! sorry I didn't have any Milkymist stickers :/) : I let you imagine what the next goodie is all about and how to use it ;) (Yes it's actually pined on my coat from now on ;))
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