[Robotgroup] New low cost embedded controller products coming soon any RG interesting in developing open source demos?

[Bryan Bishop]

On Friday 11 July 2008, Andre Lamothe wrote:
> Anyway, if there are any master embedded programmers that are
> interested in doing some fun opensource PIC and or AVR coding in
> C/ASM, I am preferably looking for people that are into tools,
> compilers, and interpreters, I would like to see basic, logo, forth,
> etc. something ported to either or both systems that makes calls to
> our drivers for video, etc. Thus, not looking for graphics and game
> programmers per se, but more system programmers, that might like
> writing little OS, compilers, interpreters for these things and has a
> lot of experience with that kind of technology. Its also fine to take
> opensource interpreters, etc. and "port" it to our systems and then
> add features.

While I am hardly a master embedded programmer yet, I've been meaning to 
look into the compiler compilers, the process of cross-compilation, and 
I really need to get the linux kernel architecture under my belt. 
There's a good number of embedded options from the linux end of things, 
so that might be an option. I could do some of this work, but my time 
is extremely weird in that it's fluxuating out of my control :-) so I 
can't guarantee much at this time, but I think it's worth discussing.

> In any event, any master PIC/AVR systems programmers that work fast,
> like embedded systems, wearable computers, physcial computing, and
> have a passion for compilers, interpreters, OS's, etc. that might be
> interested send me an email.

Alright, I'm not experienced when it comes to porting kernels to new 
architectures. Hardly. So I might have to pass this one up.

> Because of competitors, I can't divulge details publicly, but can
> privately, and full disclosure of details, prototypes, etc. will be
> provided under NDA. Graduate students from UT very welcome as well,
> Ph.d candidates even more welcome :) Just have to know your stuff in
> practical terms!

Ah, well, I'm an undergrad at UT, so I've missed this one. Maybe I'll go 
fetch a few microcontrollers from somewhere else anyway and do the 
porting thing, any suggestions re: the hardware? One of the reasons I 
ask is because I'll be needing some hardware for my own projects 
anyway, like the open rTMS stuff < 
http://heybryan.org/~bbishop/docs/open-rtms/ > (which I only mention 
because I was working on it just last night). 

- Bryan
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