[57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday

[Neil Pilgrim]

I hope to be along tonight (moist atmosphere permitting), and will
certainly not be mentioning maps..maybe. I could bring some electronics but
it's a lot of stuff given the weather; anyone done anything much with the
fabled 8266(?) chips?

Neil


On Tuesday, 18 August 2015, Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:

> We've rolled around into another week and Tuesday has again arrived, so
> this evening the space will be open to any and all who want to come
> along.
>
> If you're planning to come in reply to -discuss to let folks know that
> you'll be there and what plans you've got.
>
> I'm planning to get some more of the changes needed in hackhub to move
> it to its new home done (or more likely drink beer and glower at the
> code wondering which idiot thought that was a sane way to do things).
>
> This week also has TechMeetup tomorrow, with Tony talking  about the
> Parallella:
>
> "Hi-Ho Silver Lining...
>
> Parallella is a credit-card size SBC (Single Board Computer) inspired by
> the RPi (Raspberry Pi) that was crowd-funded through a successful
> 'Kickstarter' project by its manufactuer Adapteva. Like the RPi it has
> an ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) processor on board, but the ARM on
> Parallella is there to provide a host environment to control a MIMD
> (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data) array of mesh-connected 'Epiphany'
> CPU's using a Zynq FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). The main
> objective of the Parallella project is to democratise access to parallel
> computers and encourage the development of grass-roots support for open
> hardware and software to do parallel computing in a similar way that the
> RPi has done for conventional (serial) computing: The Parallella project
> aims to make parallel computing accessible to everyone. It has sometimes
> been a controversial project, a victim of its own hype, but over 10,000
> Parallella boards have been shipped and the project may well succeed in
> its main objective."
>
> Robert
>
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