Apparently every four years young hackers in Europe get together and make a sort of tent city. It's called "whathehack"
It looks like fun, at least if you like laptops and beer :-)
This is not very exiting, but people have been asking me about it. I have a small collection of MPC 8xx (850, 823e, 860) HDLC drivers. Most present a network interface but one I hacked allows userland access to the HDLC frames and modloadable 'filters' in the kernel which can do basic protocol work.
Here's the tar file
Digikey and Freescale have created an interesting contest around a new HC12 chip. The chip is interesting as it's an SOC with ethernet, an HC12 16 bit cpu, ram and flash. It also has SPI and I2C ports.
The contest is interesting in that you submit a proposal. The best 10 proposals are picked and given an eval board. They have 2 months to make their project work. At then end one winner is picked.
The prize is a 4-wheeler, which I don't get at all, but at least it comes with a trailer ("hello ebay!").
Here is the contest page.
Apparently every four years young hackers in Europe get together and make a sort of tent city. It's called "whathehack"
It looks like fun, at least if you like laptops and beer :-)
I was reading an article in Electron Design (04/14/05, pg 46) about DRAM speeds ("DRAM Advances Splinter to meet many system needs"). I was amazed at the new speeds for DRAM. I thought things stopped at about 166Mhz. Apparently not so. There is now DDR, DDR-2 and soon to be DDR-3. The seeds go from a pedestrian 100Mhz up through 1.6GHz. Last time I checked 1.6GHz was RF territory. I guess you need to be an antenna person to design SDRAM layouts.
I was confused, so I made a little table. It scared me.
I want one of these. Apparently it's from Toyota.
picture of 'walking foot' with person inside