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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. [...]

dinosaurs and uavs

Jul 2nd, 2010
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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 [...]

release early, release often

Jun 17th, 2010
by matt.
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Last summer, I had the good fortune of taking part in Red Hat’s 2009 POSSE. It was an absolutely excellent experience, and many of the things we did and talked about have required much reflection and continued conversation for the ideas to take root. It also took some hutzpah: along with a colleague (and super-ninja [...]

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 [...]

it’s alive!

Nov 27th, 2009
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Omer passed on this picture:

That is a concurrency.cc Arduino-compatible board fired up and ready to go. As you can see, the vias aren’t really lined up that well, which may account for some intermittent USB-to-serial weirdness that he is chasing down at the moment.

Awesome job, Omer! If all goes well, I think we’ll have around . . . → Read More: it’s alive!

concurrency.cc boards are in

Nov 26th, 2009
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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 [...]