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… Read More
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… Read More
[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… Read More
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… Read More
In my previous post I talked about the main track presentation “Who Ate My Battery” given at FOSDEM 2014 with my colleague Kerstin Eder of Bristol University. That was on the… Read More
Early every February, around five thousand people take over the Free University of Brussels for a weekend for the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting. The attendees at FOSDEM span the whole gamut of society: amateur beginners through… Read More
In a little over two weeks FOSDEM will once again be taking place in Brussels, with around 4,000 free and open source software (and hardware!) advocates set to descend upon the city for a weekend of talks, workshops and… Read More
There is something of a race to make the cheapest possible computer and if the Internet of Things is to succeed, then we need such products. The good thing about many of these boards is that they are readily available to the consumer, and very accessible for the embedded non-specialist, whether a product designer, a teacher or a hobbyist Read More
The annual OpenCores conference is now in its third year and comes to the UK for the first time. We'll be meeting on 5-6 October at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. This is the ultimate informal conference, where all of those interested in open source silicon chip design can get together to talk, design, eat and drink Read More
No, your eyes are not deceiving you and there is a simple explanation to the curious title of this post! The Pennines are a range of hills that have been described as the backbone of England and as this suggests are some distance from the sea. However, in a few weeks time the Pennine town of Hebden Bridge will once again play host to Open Source Hardware Camp (OSHCamp), and Embecosm will be running a ShrimpingIt workshop on the Sunday. Read More