Ghent has a hackerspace : Whitespace

tom — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:22:49 +0000

Since a couple of weeks Ghent has it’s first hackerspace named Whitespace (after the street it’s located : Blekerijstraat).

Whitespace is driven partly by a bunch of people who started/helped growing, hackerspace Brussels but live in Ghent and wanted to skip the commute. The other part are new enthousiastic locals (like me) who are commited to build something great.

Check out the Whitespace website at 0×20.be . If you don’t know what a hackerspace is have a look at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/

Whitespace has it’s official opening at the beginning of spring in the weekend from the 19th to the 21st of March.

Feel free to drop by for a drink, a snack and some resistors! Hope to see you then!

Here’s a flyer for the event:

Make sure to check the website for a more complete and up to date agenda.

Whitespace is located at Blekerijstraat 75, 9000 Gent in Belgium.

Awesome : Atmel AVR ATmega644 Homebrew device with iPhone aspirations

tom — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:41:37 +0000

Rossum made a an awesome device with just an 8-bit Atmel AVR ATmega644 processor and a cheap touchscreen LCD.

Hardware specifications from Rossums’ site :

320×240 LCD with 4 wire resistive touch screen – a ELT240320ATP variant from a dead Sylvania MP3 player – uses a ILI9325 controller.

12Mhz Atmega644 CPU with 64k Flash and 4k RAM – demo fits in 32k.

USB connector for PC communication and charging.

Lithium polymer battery with software controlled power.

Software controlled backlight.

SD Micro slot.

I can’t wait to see where he takes his ATmega644 next!

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