This year the GNU Tools Cauldron was hosted by Google at their California headquarters and the Embecosm team were there in strength. While a cauldron typically implies heat, this was in many ways very much a cool place to be: the talks were leading edge, the venue had great facilities, and the temperature was much more pleasant than back in the UK Read More
Hola, I’m Adam, and I spent a week as a work experience student at Embecosm, attempting to build a face-tracking webcam. Before coming to Embecosm I had no experience of electronics, and my software experience was with Python and scripting… Read More
A couple of weeks ago, the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) held its own festival for all those involved in making things. Simon Cook and I went along to promote the activities of the UK… Read More
With thousands of Parallella boards due to go out to Kickstarter backers within the next few months, Embecosm has decided to host an event which prepares programmers for developing for the platform. We’re incredibly honoured… Read More
Benchmarking is important in the embedded world, where we need to know whether applications will meet their real-time constraints, how much resources they use and power they consume. For my work on the energy consumption of compiler options, I constructed a set of benchmarks that had certain desirable characteristics for measuring energy consumption Read More
I am not a fan of patents. I see companies of all sizes racing to patent new ideas, not because they particularly want or need to, but to give them a bulwark against law suits from other patent holders. In… Read More
The Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, together with the Comino Foundation, are hosting a day-long interactive showcase and celebration of making at London's historic Somerset House on Wednesday 19th June. Dr Jeremy Bennett will be giving a talk at midday, entitled Open Source Hardware: How freely available designs drive education, innovation and industrial progress. Read More
This blog post introduces the project I will be working on during an internship with Embecosm. The internship is supported by HiPEAC, an organisation with a key aim of promoting collaboration between industry and academia. This… Read More
Powerful FPGA development boards are now easily within the price range of the hobbyist. The Terasic DE0-Nano is around £65/$100, yet capable of running a complete Linux-capable SoC. Last weekend, to coincide with Hardware Freedom Day, a group of us ran a hands-on workshop, Chip Hack, to introduce complete beginners to FPGA development Read More
Big science is important, not just because the questions it asks define what it is to be human, but because experiments of such magnitude have the potential to change all the fields of science around them Read More