2013 Sparkfun AVC location announced!

Barrels of doom. 2012.

Sparkfun announced the location of the 2013 AVC on their Google Plus page:

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines! We have now nailed down the location for the 2013 SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition - it will take place on June 8th, 2013 at the Boulder Reservoir. We are still hammering out some final details (including entrant and spectator signups) which will be forthcoming, but save the date! We hope to see you there!

mbed sdk is open source

from mbed.org

The mbed team announced a few days ago that their SDK, that is, the new mbed library, is open source.

I'm sure more than a few folks had some reservations about such a previously closed system.

For me, it'll be very educational with great examples on how to implement the mbed library of which I'm quite fond on LPC. They have extensive internals documentation posted up. I've scanned through it and I think it'll make a fascinating read.

It will likely open the door for porting to other Cortex M chips and platforms as well. Think LPC1769, STM32F4, Stellaris, etc.

AVC 2013, Sharp IR I2C

My AVC 2013 preparations have begun.

I have a list of improvements planned for my rover Data Bus to make it faster, more precise and accurate. I'll soon add the convenience of telemetry and FPV.

Some changes are small but quite helpful. One such improvement is to I2C-ify my Sharp IR Rangers.