Once more Parallax came up with a surprise at DEVCON 22 in Las Vegas.
https://www.defcon.org/
they made the electronic badges for the conference within 60 days ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Trv7yCbfA#ws
the fast and the furious ;-)
the story behind the story:
http://www.parallax.com/news/2014-08-06/propeller-1-defcon-22-badges-las-vegas
Parallax is heavily open sourcing their products.
transscript from elektor (google translate from german to english):
"What costs nothing is worth nothing!" This saying may apply to hardware - generally for software and the Internet is not really. Not only electronics engineers and programmers benefit every day from open source in many forms. Anyone who believes that the "Gift" of self-developed software is not good business, is mistaken. Add a little and gets (usually) much more back.
Last week, the DEF CON 22 was held in Las Vegas. Here is the not unknown company Parallax design files to their most famous product propeller freely available. This interesting chip also put on small boards, which were distributed to the participants of the conference. The tools PropellerIDE and SimpleIDE are now open source. Everyone can now so its very special Propeller chip tinker, tailor-made by pouring it into an FPGA. Perhaps it was inspired: In June, Tesla already announced suddenly all car-free patents. If the school do? I believe that the release of own developments is a sign of self-awareness of a company. Why things jealously guard if you are sure that you continuously improving its products? Parallax is the proof, because they have already created a new propeller version. But now I must go unpack this propeller-board ...
Jaime @ Elektor
Propeller - quick and easy powerful controller for all kinds of applications:
now the propeller chip is also open source! ... and both IDEs and hardware are released :-)
http://www.elektor.de/news/parallax-propeller-open-source-design/
more ...
google translate:
Parallax has introduced the source-code design files for propeller 1 (P8X32A), the well-known multi-core microcontroller under the GNU General Public License v3.0 on the DEF CON 22 Conference in Las Vegas. Parallax thus follows the ideas of the founder Chip Gracey, which he developed when he taught himself to program in the early 1980s. Electronics engineers and students, it is now possible to modify the Verilog design files for propeller itself and to transfer to an inexpensive FPGA.
The now open design of the controller allows now that you z. B. just more pins, more memory or architecture makes changes and constructed his own specially adapted controller based on FPGA. This is very interesting for the education at universities. The multi-core microcontroller is particularly suitable for applications with many sensors, complex user interfaces or in cases where z. B. Several motors have to be controlled simultaneously. This includes controls for unmanned flying objects, 3D printer, or solar control and medical devices.
The decision to publish the files did not fall Parallax very difficult, since this measure also supports its newest product: Propeller 2 Some of the improvements of the Successor go back to the suggestions of the users who worked with propeller solutions on FPGAs.
https://www.defcon.org/
they made the electronic badges for the conference within 60 days ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Trv7yCbfA#ws
the fast and the furious ;-)
the story behind the story:
http://www.parallax.com/news/2014-08-06/propeller-1-defcon-22-badges-las-vegas
Parallax is heavily open sourcing their products.
transscript from elektor (google translate from german to english):
"What costs nothing is worth nothing!" This saying may apply to hardware - generally for software and the Internet is not really. Not only electronics engineers and programmers benefit every day from open source in many forms. Anyone who believes that the "Gift" of self-developed software is not good business, is mistaken. Add a little and gets (usually) much more back.
Last week, the DEF CON 22 was held in Las Vegas. Here is the not unknown company Parallax design files to their most famous product propeller freely available. This interesting chip also put on small boards, which were distributed to the participants of the conference. The tools PropellerIDE and SimpleIDE are now open source. Everyone can now so its very special Propeller chip tinker, tailor-made by pouring it into an FPGA. Perhaps it was inspired: In June, Tesla already announced suddenly all car-free patents. If the school do? I believe that the release of own developments is a sign of self-awareness of a company. Why things jealously guard if you are sure that you continuously improving its products? Parallax is the proof, because they have already created a new propeller version. But now I must go unpack this propeller-board ...
Jaime @ Elektor
Propeller - quick and easy powerful controller for all kinds of applications:
now the propeller chip is also open source! ... and both IDEs and hardware are released :-)
http://www.elektor.de/news/parallax-propeller-open-source-design/
more ...
google translate:
Parallax has introduced the source-code design files for propeller 1 (P8X32A), the well-known multi-core microcontroller under the GNU General Public License v3.0 on the DEF CON 22 Conference in Las Vegas. Parallax thus follows the ideas of the founder Chip Gracey, which he developed when he taught himself to program in the early 1980s. Electronics engineers and students, it is now possible to modify the Verilog design files for propeller itself and to transfer to an inexpensive FPGA.
The now open design of the controller allows now that you z. B. just more pins, more memory or architecture makes changes and constructed his own specially adapted controller based on FPGA. This is very interesting for the education at universities. The multi-core microcontroller is particularly suitable for applications with many sensors, complex user interfaces or in cases where z. B. Several motors have to be controlled simultaneously. This includes controls for unmanned flying objects, 3D printer, or solar control and medical devices.
The decision to publish the files did not fall Parallax very difficult, since this measure also supports its newest product: Propeller 2 Some of the improvements of the Successor go back to the suggestions of the users who worked with propeller solutions on FPGAs.
