The Current Cost Bridge was developed using the open-source Arduino\nplatform. The reason for using Arduino, was to speed up the development\nprocess of the bridge, allowing for fast prototyping and producing a\nhackable device
\nChris Dalby (twitter) is Lead Software Developer at Current Cost Ltd with over 10\nyears experience in software development and network infrastructure. Chris\njoined Current Cost in December 2009 to develop desktop and web based\nsoftware for the Current Cost monitor range.
\nChris Dalby and Paul Downey talking about the Current Cost Bridge from Matt Lucht on Vimeo.
\nThe concurrency.cc project describes itself as \n\"a group of educators and researchers exploring the development of tools that make parallel programming more \naccessible to more people. Our hope is that concurrency.cc will serve the community of developers surrounding parallel \nand concurrent languages on the Arduino and other low-cost embedded platforms.\"\n
\nAdam Sampson is a research associate in \nthe field of concurrent programming and complex systems simulation at the University of Kent. \nHe has enjoyed electronics as a hobby ever since being told off for dismantling the family vacuum cleaner as a small child.\n
\nOmer Kilic \n(twitter) is a research student at the University of Kent \nworking on dynamically reconfigurable architectures and embedded systems. \nHe is passionate about the open-source hardware movement and likes tinkering, \nso much so that he founded TinkerSoc, The University of Kent Tinkering Society\n
\n\nAdam Sampson demonstrates a pair of concurrencyCC devices running an Occam driven LED display from Paul Downey on flickr
\nAdam Sampson and Omer Kilic talking with Dj Walker-Morgan after #oshug from Matt Lucht on Vimeo.
\nThe LilyPad Arduino \nis a microcontroller, plus a set of sewable electronic components designed so they can be put together to create interactive wearables \nor textiles based artworks. There is quite a range of components such as LEDS, sensors, buzzer, accelerometer and more \nthat can be connected with conductive thread. The board is based on the ATmega168V/328Vand was designed and developed by Leah Buechley \nand SparkFun Electronics.\n
\n\nRain Ashford (twitter) \nis Senior Producer at BBC Learning where she is presently across the BBC's Media Literacy supertopic portal. \nDuring her 10 years at the BBC she has developed and produced many of the BBC's high priority sites and online activities. \nPassionate about technology, she recently started a Women in Technology network for her colleagues to discuss careers, \ntraining, raising their profile and encouraging women to look at careers in tech. \nShe previously worked for BBC R&D as a Technologist where she worked on the \ngroundbreaking R&DTV project and the BBC's developer network, BBC Backstage, \nshe's a hardware hacker, coder, artist, gamer and blogger.\n
\nRain Ashford talking about Arduino and open source hardware from Matt Lucht on Vimeo.
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