By matt, on November 27th, 2009%
Omer passed on this picture:
That is a concurrency.cc Arduino-compatible board fired up and ready to go. As you can see, the vias aren’t really lined up that well, which may account for some intermittent USB-to-serial weirdness that he is chasing down at the moment.
Awesome job, Omer! If all goes well, I think we’ll have around . . . → Read More: it’s alive!
By matt, on November 26th, 2009%
For years, my colleagues and I have been working on lightweight runtimes for parallel languages. To put our work in context, we’ve often targeted small robotics platforms like the LEGO Mindstorms for demonstrating the power of a parallel-safe language for real-time systems. This summer, we realized that the Arduino was a marvelous, open-source platform with an . . . → Read More: concurrency.cc boards are in
By matt, on November 15th, 2009%
Operation: Stick Figure Army is a project that will provide tools for converting 2D imagery (as typically found in many introductory computing texts) into 2.5D representations: physical tiles with raised and textured surfaces that represent one or more diagrams from a text. This lets us explore, as a group, image processing, 3D printing, and the process . . . → Read More: programming less visually
By matt, on November 12th, 2009%
RedHat has kicked off another POSSE, this one on the other side of a continent and an ocean from where I live. (The faculty have come together in Singapore… I hope my travels take me that way someday!) I’m looking forward to seeing what they have to say, and what their experiences are like. Their blogs . . . → Read More: new POSSE bloggers