Platforms for Engineering school labs (Was: Re: RFC: Public targets having a big potential: Engineering schools)

2007-03-02 Thread Gergely Kis
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),

Re: Platforms for Engineering school labs (Was: Re: RFC: Public targets having a big potential: Engineering schools)

2007-03-02 Thread michael
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

Re: Platforms for Engineering school labs (Was: Re: RFC: Public targets having a big potential: Engineering schools)

2007-02-27 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 14:14 +0530, Aanjhan R wrote: On 2/25/07, Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we get to the pictures to see them? Are they posted anywhere? Is it possible to get the presentation as well. Is it posted in the FOSDEM site? I tried hard finding them. I could nt

Re: Platforms for Engineering school labs (Was: Re: RFC: Public targets having a big potential: Engineering schools)

2007-02-25 Thread Aanjhan R
Hi, On 2/25/07, Tim Newsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we get to the pictures to see them? Are they posted anywhere? Is it possible to get the presentation as well. Is it posted in the FOSDEM site? I tried hard finding them. I could nt except for a pic of Sean and a brief abstract of

Re: Platforms for Engineering school labs (Was: Re: RFC: Public targets having a big potential: Engineering schools)

2007-02-25 Thread Marc Verwerft
Don't expect too much from the pics. The one showing the hacker's lunchbox was a picture of a closed plastic case with reinforcements along the sides and a handle. Nothing of the inside :-( Regards, Marc. On 2/25/07, Aanjhan R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 2/25/07, Tim Newsom [EMAIL

Re: Platforms for Engineering school labs (Was: Re: RFC: Public targets having a big potential: Engineering schools)

2007-02-24 Thread Rod Whitby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something else your post made me think of: Many engineering programs have labs that involve a particular hardware platform. ... All this at an extremely inexpensive price. I'll bet most lab platforms are much more expensive as they are low volume development platforms.

Re: Platforms for Engineering school labs (Was: Re: RFC: Public targets having a big potential: Engineering schools)

2007-02-24 Thread Aanjhan R
Hi Michael, 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