Meeting #5 announcement: Embedded development with FOSS

Posted by simeon
July 22, 2009

Topic: Embedded development with FOSS
Speaker: Stewart Allen
Date: 3 August 2009
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: University of Pretoria, lecture hall 1-18 in the Economics and Management Science building (building 54 on this map: http://web.up.ac.za/interactivemaps/mapeng/maincampus.htm).
Content:

  1. What FOSS Schematics capture/ PCB layout tool are out there. Talk about Eagle CAD (not FOSS but works under linux and has a free version for non commercial), Kicad ect.
  2. Microcontrollers that have FOSS tool chains, AVR (ATMega), ARM, MSP430, Foxboard. Respective projects and how they fit together. I also want to touch on some debugging. GDB and OpenOCD.
  3. Arduino, what it is and how it works, also include a simple demo of the code and bootloader, blink some LED’s.
  4. Foxboard, It’s a embedded SOC that can run a full 2.6.2* Kernel, not uLinux. Have a bit of a demo.
  5. Q&A
Announcement, Meetings

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