Making the future:

Developing hardware solutions to academic data/research problems using off-the-shelf components

Jonathan Younker & Tim Ribaric

Disclaimer

Agenda:

  1. What are they?
  2. What're they good for? And not?
  3. How do they work?
  4. 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

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/27220171.jpg

Questions?

Resources

Thank You!

Now go make something cool

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