Hi Gergely,
That's wonderful news.
This would make a great story for Linux Journal or Linux Magazine (not to
great mention publicity for OpenMoko).
I will be trying to make contact with those teaching courses like this in the
universities around me (Stanford, UC Berkeley, etc.). If I am able to do so, I
may contact you offlist for more information. I trust that's OK?
Regards,
Michael
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Gergely Kis wrote:
Hello,
Actually we are planning on doing this at the Technical University of
Hungary.
I have an Embedded Linux course, where in the past years we used Siemens
Blue2Net devices + HP Ipaq 5500s with Familiar as the target, but the
former device is very low power (50 Mhz PPC, limited peripherials),
and the later is not really designed for Linux, altough it can be used
for education.
We just acquired Glomation GESBC-9315 developer boards, which has
similar parameters as the Neo + a CAN / RS485 bus controller which
makes it useful to demonstrate industrial applications. We also plan
to acquire Neo/OpenMoko devices to replace/complement the Ipaqs.
Best Regards,
Gergely
On 2/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Something else your post made me think of: Many engineering programs have
labs
that involve a particular hardware platform.
OpenMoko would make an ideal platform for labs on all the different
technologies involved: embedded systems programming, small screen UI,
hardware
control, modem interfacing and control, GPRS applications, etc.
With access to the openmoko website and sourcecode, instructors have a
huge
range of material to work with.
Students will have access to the hardware via JTAG, and more via the
lunchbox.
All this at an extremely inexpensive price. I'll bet most lab platforms
are
much more expensive as they are low volume development platforms.
Heck, some of you here could be teaching these classes. Perhaps just write
up
a proposal and send it to your local college extension program?
Thoughts?
Michael
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