Making the future:
Developing hardware solutions to academic data/research problems using off-the-shelf components
Jonathan Younker & Tim Ribaric
Disclaimer
Agenda:
- What are they?
- What're they good for? And not?
- How do they work?
- Examples (show and tell)
What are they?
- prototyping platforms / single-board computers
- Open source hardware
- Open source software
- Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Software: C/C++/Python/Javascript (wait, don't leave!)
What are they good for?
- "Internet of Things"
- Small, low-power, low-cost applications
- Same hardware, different software applications
- Data collection/analysis
- Educational purposes
- Social Activism
- Synthesizers
- Robotics
What they're not
- High performance PCs
Show & Tell
Questions?
- Jonathan Younker @jtyounker Github
- Tim Ribaric @elibtronic Github
- http://jyounker.github.io/FOWG_2013