Daily Archives: 2011-12-14

Teaching Embedded Systems (with Arduino)

Posted on 2011-12-14 by pappp

Now that the classes are winding down, I want to write up some internet-accessible notes about the embedded systems unit I designed and taught for EGR199 this semester. The unit went well, and I can see basically the same materials being reused, so having a nice content dump for me or any other instructor to use is worth the effort. Long winded version after the fold.
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Touchpad

Posted on 2011-12-14 by pappp

I picked up one of the $150 refurbished 32GB Touchpads in the last firesale on Sunday. It seems like HP has done their very best to get as many Touchpads into the hands of hackers as possible, so whether or not it is well supported by HP, the community will do something fun with it. Besides, a $150 ARM developement platform that will boot Android, various Linux chroots, AND let me play with WebOS was too appealing to pass up.
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