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Facial Recognition on the New Google Coral Development Board
Introduction My name is Pietra Ferreira Tadeu Madio and I’m an AI Research Engineer working at Embecosm. During the summer I was able to start working full-time on my own AI-driven project. Artificial intelligence is typically associated with high power computing and big data, but there is an increasing need for development of AI systems […]
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Monitoring Environmental Noise with a Raspberry Pi
Project requirements When I arrived at Embecosm, on the first day of my work experience, I was offered a real-world project at a local church, which is being used as a nursery for toddlers. There had been noise complaints surrounding the nursery from the nearby residents. I was given the task of finding a way […]
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Measuring the Accuracy of the Church Clock and Pendulum
The Project For my work experience with Embecosm, I was given a real-life project by Rev. Peter Salisbury, the vicar of St Thomas’ church in Lymington. The project was to measure the accuracy of the church clock and pendulum, by using a magnetic hall effect sensor to detect a magnet stuck to the bottom of […]
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Supporting the Lymington Cricket Club
As an embedded systems and open source software services provider, with specialist world class engineering capability in commercial grade Compiler Tool Chain and a full breadth of OS, Machine Learning and AI sectors, we recognise the inter-connected world we live in and the various ecosystems we are a part of. One of these is to […]
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OpenHW Group Announced
The Open HW Group, a not-for-profit organisation was announced earlier this week with the aim to boost the adoption of open source processors. Embecosm is in the vanguard of this initiative as one of the sponsoring organisations. As a specialist in open source compiler tool chains and operating systems, open standards are central to Embecosm’s […]
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Buildroot Support for 32-bit RISC-V
The patches that I submitted to add 32-bit RISC-V architecture support to Buildroot have recently been committed upstream. As part of this patchset a configuration was added to enable the Buildroot autobuilders so that any potential build issues could be highlighted as part of the Buildroot continuous build process. The system configuration at this stage […]
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My Winter Project: Making a Transistor Radio
Introduction So, I’m Mitchell Granger and this winter I had the pleasure of completing my second fortnight of work experience at Embecosm. You may remember if you read the blog, that on my previous visit here I was tasked with creating a timer for the clock pendulum at St. Thomas’ church next door. Since then, […]
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FOSDEM 2019
FOSDEM once again provided an exciting weekend with over 8000+ attendees, spread across 47 developer rooms. Embecosm would like to thank everyone at this year’s FOSDEM. If you were not able to attend or would like to see the various Embecosm talks, please note the links below. A recording of Jeremy’s talk ‘Embedded FreeBSD on […]
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Embecosm are presenting at FOSDEM 2019
Once again Embecosm will be presenting at the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) 2019, held in Brussels. This two-day event on the 2-3 February is a free and non-commercial event, to promote the widespread use of free and open source software. This year Jeremy Bennett, Mary Bennett, Mark Corbin and Lewis Revill […]
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