Happy Canada Day from Scimatic Software!

Jim Thomas, an attendee of the first SciBarCamp, has written an excellant review for The British Association for the Advancement of Science (The BA).

In related news, there will be a BioBarCamp held in Palo Alto this August which I'm planning on attending.

Back in March when I was attending the Pittcon conference in New Orleans I dropped by the Wiley booth to see what was new.

Goodbye Liberty Village, Hello Spadina!

Things have worked out well for us sharing an office in Liberty Village with Steve Van Egmond's crew from Tiny Planet. So well that we decided to keep sharing an office and went for an upgrade.

Recap
The last week was able to simply copy files from the host PC to the CF via a USB card reader. Then after placing that CF back in the TS-7200 and re-booting it, I was able to copy over that file to the Linux root structure.

Expectations

File Transferring - Wrap Up

Recap
Over the past week the system was connect and Linux was able to boot off the embedded board. The console, via the serial port, was accessed with HyperTerminal on a desktop. The network configuration was also setup with Apache and the board was working as a web server. After navigating to the /www/apache/htdocs/ folder, the index.html file was altered with meta tags that would re-direct any client to the Scimatic Software Homepage.

Expectations

Recap

Over the past week the system was connected and Linux was able to be booted off the embedded board. The console via the serial port was accessed via HyperTerminal on the desktop. The network configuration was also setup with Apache and the board was working as a web server. After navigating to the /www/apache/htdocs/ folder, the index.html file was altered with meta tags that would re-direct any client to the Scimatic Software Homepage.

Expectations

Background

Scientific instrumentation, that requires operator control, is typically configured with a PC and an embedded control system (contained within the instrument). This configuration requires application software to be installed on the PC for issuing user commands and displaying the collected measurements. Additional custom software drivers are required to be able to communicate with the Instrument. Embedded software is installed in the instrument itself to able communication with the PC.

Limitations

Detailed instructions for something that I don't think I'll ever have to do... How to ship your brain.

SciBarCamp got a decent write up in the National Post (here)

A very important message to pass on from the author of the article (Dave Sachs)..."Don't blame me for the title!"