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Welcome, Tim “Mithro” Ansell!
- Tim is on the show to discuss the Tomu, a new project currently funding on CrowdSupply. It’s mentioned at the beginning of the show and continued around 1:13:00.
- Tim is a software engineer (Back end/ front end) during the day and hardware engineer on the side.
- He also started PyCon AU, which is coming up August 24-26, 2018 in Sydney (there is also LinuxConf.au which is in January). There is a large IoT section as well, usually attended by the micropython crowd, including founder Damien George.
- Due to dyslexia in elementary school, Tim was told to use the spell check on his IBM XT 8088. This plus the “Dick Smith’s Fun Way into electronics” sparked his love of hardware.
- University of Adelaide
- His senior project was creating a phone exchange using a PIC with built in USB Interface. It has 8 ports connected to phones via standard RJ12 jacks and was all written in assembly.
- We got into the idea of unit tests for schematics.
- TimVideos
- Tomu
- Training at Linux.conf.au – Jan 23rd
- This will take participants through the steps of creating an embedded soft processor in an FPGA. There will also be a Python framework that switches between different softcores.
- Cores discussed/explored
- They are using the Arty A7 board
- Soon “upy-fpga” will become “fupy“
- Gateware
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