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 to

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)

2007-02-27 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 c

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 P

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 t

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

2007-02-25 Thread Tim Newsom
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:45, Richard Bennett wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2007 01:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Students will have access to the hardware via JTAG, and more via the lunchbox. Yesterday photos were shown of the lunchbox. Sean said they were thinking of changing the name to som

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

2007-02-24 Thread Richard Bennett
On Sunday 25 February 2007 01:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Students will have access to the hardware via JTAG, and more via the > lunchbox. Yesterday photos were shown of the lunchbox. Sean said they were thinking of changing the name to something like 'OpenMoko Bombsquad' as 'lunchbox' carrie

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 sy

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 platfor

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

2007-02-24 Thread michael
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