Community news 2011-02-01
From Qi-Hardware
[edit] NanoNote
- Werner published the first real life signal strength tests for atusd and atben 802.15.4 boards. [1], room coverage, video showing ben-wpan in action
ben-wpan showing the RSSI of background traffic
- Jane Andreas designed another one of her famous crochet NanoNote cases, this time Jlime inspired. [2]
Ben NanoNote crochet case
- Jane Andreas made the first Ascii Comic for Ben NanoNote. [3]
Aewan in action
- David Kuehling wrote an article about Forth on the Ben NanoNote that was published in the 4/2010 issue of German Forth magazine 4th Dimension. [4], article pdf
- David also continued his porting efforts with GNU Octave, PLplot LUA bindings, the zgv image viewer and others. GNU Octave, PLplot Lua bindings
zgv
Lua bindings for PLplot
gnuplot
Emacs
[edit] Milkymist
- German Linux Magazin published a nice introduction to Milkymist One. [5]
- Milkymist One is now also available from Tuxbrain. [6]
[edit] SIE/SAKC
- Cristian Paul uploaded the first live GPS I/Q data captured with his SiGe EVB, and asked people to join the software effort. [7]
SiGe 4162T EVB hooked up to SIE
- Carlos Camargo forked the SAKC/SIE project to linuxencaja.net. He asked David from Tuxbrain to leave the project, so SAKC/SIE is now unmaintained at qi-hardware.com. linuxencaja.net has since started AndroidStamp, a breakout board around Freescale i.MX233. [8] [9]
[edit] Events
- FOSDEM 2011. 5-6 February in Brussels(Belgium) Tuxbrain will be sharing a stand with Hackable Devices, Tuxbrain will expose NanoNote, MilkyMist ONE and some other products. if you plan to visit FOSDEM don't forget to go to the hallway and wave :)
