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FOSDEM 2016 Day 1: Talks that made me think
FOSDEM 2016 was as huge as usual. Several thousand open source enthusiasts, 600+ talks and, this year, lots and lots of rain. But the quality of the talks more than made up for the weather. Here are a few that got me excited over the weekend. I was fascinated to hear about the entire Italian […]
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LLVM Based Simulators at FOSDEM 2016
As keen eyes will have already noticed, this weekend Jeremy, Ed and I will be attending FOSDEM. Like the rest of the team I have attended several of these before, and I will also be presenting some of our work in the world of open source compilers and their supporting tools. This year I will […]
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AAP Talk at FOSDEM 2016
At the end of this month, Simon, Jeremy and myself will be attending FOSDEM. This will be my second time attending and my first time giving a presentation, and I hope it will be as entertaining as it was last year. My presentation will be on AAP (An Altruistic Processor), an architecture of our own […]
Read moreA Student Implementation of AAP for FPGA
I’m yet another work experience student and yet another Daniel. In the summer of 2014 I was tasked with creating a student’s introduction to Verilog. This summer I worked with the skills previously learnt and was tasked with creating a simple processor with Verilog, with the specification of AAP. Peter Bennett (my partner in crime […]
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How to Start Your Own Open Source Business
Many of you reading this post will have attended the one day Open for Business conference that was hosted as part of the Wuthering Bytes festival at the end of September. We recorded (almost) all the talks, to provide a permanent repository of information that will serve as an invaluable resource to those running, starting […]
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Open for Business: Making Money from Free and Open Source Software and Hardware
To those familiar with traditional business models, Embecosm is something of a mystery. A team of very highly paid engineers using expensive equipment to write immensely complex software, which we then give away for free. Yet despite this, we are a growing and profitable business. The answer of course is that we are not paid […]
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My work experience with Embecosm
Hello I am Daniel Hunter from Southlands School, where I have just finished my GCSEs. I recently spent two weeks at Embecosm for work experience. My main task was to build an autonomous car with sensors. Shrimping.it The Shrimp is an alternative to the Arduino Uno, with a component cost of around 10% of the […]
Read moreA work experience week and many projects
Hello, I’m Tommy and I spent one week here at Embecosm for my work experience, where I learnt a lot and completed many projects with the immense amount of material I had available to me. I worked along with Peter and Daniel, who were both doing their work experience here as well. The Blink Circuit […]
Read morePID altitude control of a Quadcopter
I’m a work experience student who was tasked with using a PID controller and a barometer to control the altitude of a Crazyflie quadcopter. Although I had active control of the upwards forces getting it to go upwards or the thrust, I had much less control for making the quadcopter come back down — gravity […]
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