Embedded Design With GNU/Linux

The Free Software Cell, Government Engineering College, Barton Hill, Thiruvananthapuram, Organised a One Day National Seminar on “Embedded Design With GNU/Linux” on March 21, 2009, Saturday at the College Auditorium in association with Visiting Faculty Scheme, Directorate of Technical Education , Govt. of Kerala and Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment.

The inauguration was almost at 9.30 AM. There was welcome speech from students and also from the Principal of the college.

At 10 AM we had the Keynote Address  ‘Free Software for Science and Technology’ by  Dr. V.Sasikumar . It was about Free Software, its importance and also a short introduction to Creative Commons.  It ended at 10.30 AM.

Next session was by Mr. Shakthi Kannan on ‘Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems’.  It was interactive.  He gave a very good description about the important topics in Embedded Systems.

There was one more session by  Shakthi  on ‘Electronics Design Automation Using GNU/Linux’. It was mainly about the Free Software EDA tools. He showed some electronics designs done using Free Software.

Jeffrey Antony gave a small description of the GNUdino board design, GNUdino board and  ARDUINO. This session ended at 1.00 PM.

The afternoon session was ‘How to Hack an ARM Microcontroller Using GNU/Linux’ by Pramode. He showed some of his STM32 Primer experiments which is documented here.All we eagerly listening his talk. There were also some question about the compilation.

The second afternoon session was ‘Java In Action- With Lego MindStorm NXT - Robot’ by Mr. David John. This session was about programming the Lego MindStorm NXT - Robot. It was also a nice and interactive session. At the end he showed a line following robot using Lego MindStorm NXT - Robot .

The workshop ended at 4.30 PM.