We have received a lot of requests to have an event on python and this is the motivation to host one such event !
The event is planned for the last weekend (27th and 28th) of feb and if you are interested and want to grab a seat or share your experience on using python with other folks then please leave a comment !
Its been a long time that we have documented our work with the chipshare !
ChipShare is a slowly growing community with very good traction from electronic enthusiasts from various parts.
We have had varying spectrum of people visiting our discussions and hands on sessions. One of the interesting factor has always been handling the students who come to us with all sorts of crazy ideas.
One of the group of students wanted to know if they could learn and also build something useful so that it enables others to easily learn stuffs !
That’s a difficult question to answer but nevertheless we said lets attempt for the same. We asked the students who regularly visited us to form a group and start brainstorming on what they wanted to learn and then what possibly could they design.
We took two weeks to decide to choose the platform and finally took a call !
The students wanted to learn the famous 8051 architecture and also come up with some kind of learning material (low cost ) for the same.
We also named the kit the “ustick51″ .
Now that it is was named, we had to come up with some requirements as well as some learning experience that they could get in doing the same:
What more do you need for product to be good !!!
Action Items and the results:
The Scary SMD soldering now easy to a group of students !!
The boards are sold through Tenet Technetronics as well as EasyElectronics at 19.28$ (892.50 INR) and we are expecting the prices to come down even more lower in the coming days based on the number of boards that we produce !
We are planning to build more daughter cards and projects in the future based on this platform and also make the source code as well building instructions available freely to all through various online mediums.
Below are some of the videos that show the ustick in action !
Interfacing a LED to the Ustick
Interfacing an array of LEDs with the ustick.
Interfacing a switch with the ustick
Interfacing an LCD to the ustick
Interfacing a ADC to the Ustick
Interfacing DC motor with the Ustick
Interfacing the Stepper motor with the Ustick
Interfacing the Ustick with the Processing Environment
Again to remind , we are working on the cost factor of the board and we believe that we can definitely make it more affordable if more companies come foward to help us promote as well as help out in funding the production activities.
For sales related queries please feel free to contact Tenet Technetronics at info@tenettech.com
Its been a busy week for us the whole week and here is the event report for the processing free day event !
We had 12 attendees for the day and we started off with an introduction to processing in general and we also had a whole lot of questions to answer of various levels. Most of them were excited to see how processing could help them design some meaningful applications both technical as well as artistic.
We divided the whole attendees into groups of 3 and we asked them to take up a design idea and start writing the sketch for the same.
Here is a link of the Apps and the documents that they made for the same
http://chipshare.tenettech.com/chipshare/?page_id=190
http://chipshare.tenettech.com/chipshare/?page_id=193
http://chipshare.tenettech.com/chipshare/?page_id=139
http://chipshare.tenettech.com/chipshare/?page_id=201
At the end of the day i also ended up showing them a demo of how to do some real time video processing , augmented reality as well as interface wiimote, arduino to processing which they were excited to see !
I am going to soon document the demo sketches in a couple of days and would post them as soon as they are ready !!
We are looking forward for more people to build this community to learn freely and if you are ineterested please feel free to write to us at chipshare@tenettech.com
Its been a fantastic response for us to get people for the free day event !
We have got a whooping registration of 12 against 6 that we announced ! We planned to get an other free day on the same topic if we get more people !
Processing has always been one of our favorite tools to use to develop visualization as well as measurement experiments at Tenet.
It would be great to discuss how this can help in a way to visualize data , do video , audio processing …etc
The free day is now planned to start with an introductory talk on some of the projects that we have used Processing for and then give an overview on the basics of using the software, finding resources , interaction with hardware ..etc
We have space for 6 people free in the brain room and we are hoping to explore for space if we find more people !
Send in an email ram@tenettech.com if you are interested to come so that we can register a seat for you !
Some of the topics that we would like to touch base on would be :
1) Video libraries
2) Audio Processing
3) Augmented reality
4) Text to speech !!
It was another day of fun meeting like minded people at Tenet. This time we met to see how the mbed platform works !
It was indeed a great event. We had 5 attendees on Saturday and 1 on Sunday. Some of the feedback that i got were :
Never the less it was a good session. At the end of the day 2 session one of the participants volunteered to compile a book to get started with the mbed.
A user also contributed a processing code to build a simple graphing system that could plot the serial data coming out of the mbed platform.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 | import processing.serial.*; Serial myPort; // The serial port int xPos = 1; // horizontal position of the graph void setup () { // set the window size: size(400, 300); // List all the available serial ports println(Serial.list()); // I know that the first port in the serial list on my mac // is always my Arduino, so I open Serial.list()[0]. // Open whatever port is the one you're using. myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600); // don't generate a serialEvent() unless you get a newline character: myPort.bufferUntil('\n'); // set inital background: background(255, 204, 0); } void draw () { // everything happens in the serialEvent() } void serialEvent (Serial myPort) { // get the ASCII string: String inString = myPort.readStringUntil('\n'); if (inString != null) { // trim off any whitespace: inString = trim(inString); // convert to an int and map to the screen height: float inByte = float(inString); inByte = map(inByte, 0, 1023, 0, height); // draw the line: stroke(127,34,255); line(xPos, height, xPos, height - inByte); // at the edge of the screen, go back to the beginning: if (xPos >= width) { xPos = 0; background(0); } else { // increment the horizontal position: xPos++; } } } |
We are extremely happy to write about our first open house event at ChipShare. The open house event was attended by 3 of the participants who tried out the “Maple ” boards .
Some of the feedback that we got from the participants:
Nevertheless , the best part of the whole event was that the attendees tried to address one of the pain points that they faced and donated us with a neat user guide to get started on the Maple on a windows platform.
mbed an Arm based board is available for a free day event the coming two weekends (Aug21-Aug22/Aug 28-Aug29) . We are looking for students/professionals who could try out this tool and possibly set up a short session on getting started on this tool where people could learn what this board is capable of and also come up with a conclusion on what are possible designs on this platform.
There is a blog post by folks at Tenet here
If you are interested to work on this platform then shoot us an email with you profile on chipshare.tenettech.com
Leaflabs an open source electronics company has come up with “MAPLE” and ARM based opensource board similar to the arduino. It is as easy as to get started on the arduino and provides more resources in terms of the hardwares as well as the performance.
A series of introductory events to introduce the usage of MAPLE is planned in universities as well as corporate environments in the coming months !
We are currently open for a free day session on these boards at Tenet where you could drop in to see how exciting these boards are to work !!!
Chip Share is a community driven model to learn, educate and evolve for Free.
ChipShare is a movement initiated as well as funded by Tenet Technetronics and we believe to see a lot more companies join hands with us to build an active community around the model.
To find out more on What ChipShare is please visit the page here for more details.
