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2020-01-13 01:01
in Linux
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LCA had been nearby twice, in Brisbane, but this was the first time in the Gold Coast. I had been there twice in the past though, so there were fewer things left to see, I went to check them
I gave a couple of talks this year:
Planning for and Handling Failures from Open Hardware, Aviation, to Production at Google
ESP32 Memory Management, Neopixels and RGBPanels
I also had fun at the Open Hardware Miniconf 2020: Dingo Car with Tensorflow Video Analysis v2
I met Chris and Jon for dinner before the conference:
Chris had a fancy wheelchair enhanced with Jon's improvements
Then came time for the conference:
I much enjoyed a very cool talk on emulating old game consoles in an FPGA
took a lot to run those video consoles back then, lots of it was RAM
there was no framebuffer, sprites and backgrounds were rendered real time during CRT gun scans
backgrounds were rendered fro a bunch of tiles to same RAM
Random talk slides:
great to have Bunnie back
Nice to see the usual people again:
of course I 'need' an ESP32 watch :)
this one is cute too
Nice dinners as usual:
I brought my new LED outfit
And just like this, it was conference close, where we we told to guess where the next conference would be:
it'll be back in Canberra a 3rd time
Jon Oxer won the Rusty Wrench award this year, and it was well deserved
After an ice cream social, the conference was over. |