LinuxConf.Au: Electronics with Linux

Main content:

• list some of the open source tools for electronics development,
• describe the author's electronics design software environment, (what packages has he got installed),
• discuss the various means to fabricate printed circuit boards,
• show a few recent small-scale personal projects, such as the motion detecting night light or the doorbell pulse extender and event logger
• Relating to the OpenWRT project
• display and discuss car boot based wireless automatic offsite backup system, using OpenWRT, rsync, ssh, and a laptop hard drive,
• display Netrek server operating on an embedded router using OpenWRT,
• briefly describe the packaging constraints.

Relating to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project:

• display and discuss two of the OLPC A-Test laptop boards,
• display and discuss three of the OLPC B-Test-1 laptops,
• discuss results of rural low noise testing.