I’ll have to write a longer post later, but I thought I’d just mention that OSCON is a great conference. Our presentation went well, and we’ve had a lot of great conversations with people about all kinds of things in the open source world. More later… for now, it’s time to head out the door. [...]
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dinosaurs and uavs
This past week, Radu and Drew worked through the details of setting up PWM-based servo control on the Arduino. This gives us robust control over servos from our occam-pi based programming environment without having to interrupt our execution every 20ms to update a servo. Here, the Science Dinosaur demonstrates how things work. Radu and Drew’s [...]
cccboard in the wild
The concurrency.cc board (cccboard) was photographed in the wild being its own bad self. Some of the Kent crew made their way to a meetup in London of the OSHUG, the Open Source Hardware Group, hosted by Osmosoft. psd shot this picture: Yes, Omer’s step-up circuit lets our Atmega328-based board run off a single AA [...]
plumbing is released
The concurrency.cc logo I am excited to announce the release of Plumbing, software and documentation to support artists and makers in the programming of low-cost, open-hardware platforms like the Arduino. The Plumbing libraries are a collection of parallel components written in occam-pi , a small language with a long history. Last summer, we decided that [...]
concurrency.cc boards are in
For years, my colleagues and I have been working on lightweight runtimes for parallel languages. To put our work in context, we’ve often targeted small robotics platforms like the LEGO Mindstorms for demonstrating the power of a parallel-safe language for real-time systems. This summer, we realized that the Arduino was a marvelous, open-source platform with [...]