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First Steps

Aug 24th, 2010
by khardey.
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Summer is over, so it’s time to get to work! Of course, my summer wasn’t spent being lazy all the time. With Dr. Jadud’s advice, Dr. Goadrich obtained an Arduino – open source hardware –  in order for me begin … Continue reading →

OSCON is good

Jul 22nd, 2010
by matt.
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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. [...]

plumbing goes to hollywood…

May 13th, 2010
by matt.
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Or, at least, OSCON. I think I’m supposed to put one of these somewhere… for now, I’ll put it on my blag. We’re talking about parallel programming on the Arduino. Tray shwet. The semester is over, grades are in, and now I hit the road for points east: Syracuse, Boston, DC, and then home again. [...]

cccboard in the wild

May 1st, 2010
by matt.
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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

Feb 1st, 2010
by matt.
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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 [...]