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Chip Hack for Teens
Hello, I’m Dan, I spent a weekend at the ‘original’ Chip Hack and have now had two weeks of work experience to convert it into a teen friendly format. Before coming to Embecosm I had an interest in computers but no real prior experience, beyond playing around on the Internet all day. The Original Chip […]
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Opportunity to obtain MAGEEC energy measurement hardware
On 1st October 2014 the MAGEEC project will be placing an order for the manufacture of a new batch of energy measurement boards. These are used together with the ARM Cortex M4-based STM32F4DISCOVERY board and a python framework, to provide a low cost solution that is capable of measuring energy consumption at 3 independent points […]
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GNU Octave and Circuit Simulation
I’m a mathematics graduate and for the past two weeks I’ve been an intern with Embecosm, charged with looking into open source alternatives to Matlab and Simulink, particularly for silicon chip modeling. About GNU Octave GNU Octave is an open source Matlab alternative, however, it lacks a Simulink-like companion program. Octave is of particular interest […]
Read moreChange logs: Why they still matter
Cray 1 computer core. Let’s hope they had a record of where all those wires were connected! I have often been told that the change log is obsolete; it being suggested that with modern distributed concurrent version systems like Git, the commit log combined with tools such as git blame, git show and git diff, mean the […]
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Shrimping with #techmums
This Sunday Embecosm in partnership with #techmums, RS Components and Ravensbourne will be hosting a Shrimping workshop in Greenwhich that is purely for mums. We’ve previously run Shrimping workshops with a number of different groups, but this is the first time we will have hosted one with #techmums and on our involvement Jeremy says: “The […]
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Migrating git repositories
For the last year or two, many of our customers have requested that that source code for their GNU tool chains is held on GitHub, even though the upstream repositories were in Subversion (GCC) or CVS (everything else). That was not a major problem, since for some time there have been git mirrors of all […]
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Euro-LLVM 2014
Last month we attended the Euro-LLVM meeting, a conference for the LLVM developer community in Europe. We were presenting our poster of our work on the MAchine Guided Energy Efficient Compiler framework, which is nearing the first release version. The meeting was held in Edinburgh, hosted by the University Department of Computer Science. Edinburgh is […]
Read moreVideo: The GNU Compiler Collection at Manchester Free Software
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgFr4Jnhff0&w=640] On Tuesday 18th March Jeremy gave a talk at Manchester Free Software, entitled The GNU Compiler Collection: How to Use, Port and Upstream the World’s Most Widely Used Tool Chain. Just over an hour long, the talk explained how you can build your own tool chain from source code, and covered testing and bug […]
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Electronics is for Anyone: Shrimping for the Over 60s
Lymington (UK) has a number of interesting characteristics. For example, it has produced much of the UK Olympic sailing team in recent years, the vicar of its parish church, the Rev Peter Salisbury, is a former open source software engineer and, of course, it is home to Embecosm. As you would expect, the church office […]
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