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Who wants a BeagleBone Black and BaconCape?

fustini

At The specified item was not found., lead a hands session with the Beagle Bone BlackBeagle Bone Black entitled Rapid Prototyping with Sensor/Actuator Breakout Boards using Bonescript:

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The workshop showed how to interact with the BeagleBone and BaconCape using Bonescript (a Javascript library) by editing code live in the browser:

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Here's a video of it in action:

 

The following day after all sessions were over, Jason kindly gave me a BeagleBone Black and BaconCape that was used in the workshop.  I already have a BeagleBone Black so I thought I would pass the favor along and give it for free it to a Community member:

 

Reply to this post with a short description of why you are interested (1 to 2 sentences is fine).  I'll then pick a winner at random on Thursday, May-9, at 7pm US CDT.

 

Note: I'm located in Chicago and will ship it for free to the winner using the lowest cost option available.  If the winner is located outside the US, then the winner will be responsible for paying any customs fees or duty that may apply.  I will list the value as $45USD (there is no price listed for the BaconCape, I think it was just made for the workshop). Also, these two board come as-is.  It was used during four 45-minute sessions at DESIGN West.  I have tested the basic operation of this unit, but I make no guarantee about its functionality.

 

Cheers,

Drew

http://www.twitter.com/pdp7

  • in reply to morgaine

    Morgaine Dinova wrote:

     

    You may find this odd Drew, but I dislike reminiscing about the old days.  I like ever-better technology, ever-stronger engineering, and every more-capable systems which empower people more in their daily lives.  I love the very latest in technology.  The trouble is, not all modern-day systems are better than they were some decades ago.

    I like good engineering whether it's from Ancient Rome, Mesoamerica, Ancient Egypt, Gustav Eiffel, Antonio Gaudi, John Roebling, Jules Verne, Steve Wozniak, Monty Denneau, myself, or who/where/whenever.  As you point out, sometimes there are great ideas from a while back, and a good question when Aged P's start reminiscing is "was it really better, and more important why was it better?"  When answers come back like "things were as simple as possible because you couldn't afford to make them more complex than necessary" you get important rediscoveries like RISC.  When people say that in the old days you had complete documentation instead of NDAs, that gives an important clue about why engineering may have been a lot more fun and productive.

     

    Also, old ideas have a way of coming back when technology changes.  Vacuum tubes (valves) begat bipolar transistors which encouraged gate-oriented logic, but when MOSFETs became practical the relay logic Shannon wrote about in his 1937 master's thesis suddenly became important again.  As Arnold Horshack said on Welcome Back, Kotter:  "What is, is.  What was, will be.  What will be was -- but will be again." (Horshack was quoting the leader of a cult he had joined).

  • in reply to fustini

    There's a working pdp7 (one of five working world wide) at Living Computer Museum; @livingcomputers on Twitter; in Seattle. They were checking out a radiation detector that University of Oregon had interfaced to it decades ago & used up to 2005.

  • in reply to ihackmore

    Oh cool!  I'll have to check that out if I ever get to the northwest.

  • Here is the list of entries sorted alphabetically:

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    I choose the winner based on whoever would be in 1st place after a random sort:

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    The winner is colecago!  I've you sent you a contact request so that I can PM you to ask for your shipping address (if you can get it to me tomorrow morning then I can ship it out.  otherwise i'll have to wait until I'm back from California on May-23).

     

    (I know that seems a bit weird that 1st place in sorted list was 1st place in random list, but I suppose colecago is just lucky.  In drawing I did yesterday for the Renesas board, this did not happen so I don't think it's a problem with random.org - just an odd occurrence).

     

    Cheers,

    Drew

  • This would be a great opportunity to port my microcontroller projects to embedded Linux. I would use it to interface multiple sensors and peripherals using I2C, SPI and UART.

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Hi Kelvin, that sounds like an interesting idea, but unfortunately the giveaway has already ended and a winner has been selected.

     

    Thanks,

    Drew

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    John Beetem wrote:

     

    I like good engineering whether it's from Ancient Rome, Mesoamerica, Ancient Egypt, Gustav Eiffel, Antonio Gaudi, John Roebling, Jules Verne, Steve Wozniak, Monty Denneau, myself, or who/where/whenever.  As you point out, sometimes there are great ideas from a while back,

    Concrete. Used by the Romans, forgotten until the 18th or 19th century, then 'rediscovered'. Where would we be without it today.  Sometimes the old ideas really are the best, especially when they're effectively cast in man made stone!

  • Awesome,

    This board fits my needs.

    I have a good working exp in linux and its flaovours Debian, Ubuntu Fedora, red Hat etc.

    I want this board for initial development purpose.

    My Contact email id shaileshk2000@gmail.com

    6634 maplewood drive, #APT 103, Mayfield Heights,OHIO 44124.

    Thanks.

     

    Regards