ESC - Luminary micro

I'm big on the robotic type applications. It fits too because robots are just embedded systems that move. Right?

Luminary Micro designs and manufactures Arm Cortex-M3 processors. I'm not familiar with the specific details for the Cortex-M3 implementation, but I do know that part of Luminary's reputation is good processor at a good price.

At the ESC here, they're showing off the power of their processors with some intelligent manipulator arms using their Arm processors. They're in booth 3010.

Duane Benson

ESC - RadiSys Robot demostration

I found another cool thing over at the RadiSys booth. They use an Intel Dual core processor and run half of it powered by embedded Windows and the other half of powered by with Linux. Dual core and dual OS. Neat.

Thier demo is a little robot that find a sign. You move the sign and it finds it. Find them in booth 1526.

Duane Benson

ESC - National Instruments

I spoke with Jamie at National Instruments, booth 1508, about just about the coolest way to distribute show premiums I've ever seen. They're showcasing a new version of LabView for Arm processors. It brings all of that power down to less expensive computing platforms.

I've used a variant of LabView in the Lego Robot system but this is real stuff. It does a great job of combining visual programming with lower level coding, like C.

I got a Twixt.

Duane Benson

Sunstone is Here Too

The show is on and engineers are starting to come by. We also have two folks here from our board fab partner, Sunstone Circuits. That's Lee and Nolan there. I'm not telling who is who. You have to stop by the booth for that information. (#1944)

Duane Benson
Smile. You're on Screaming Camera

ESC Go time!

We have a booth. We have staff. We're ready to go. The show starts in about ten minutes and we're jazzed up! Well, most of us are. I'm tired and hungry. I've had a chocolate chip cookie for breakfast. That's it.

By the way, it was a really good cookie. The place I got it from is on the back wall in the 1500 column. The might be sold out by the time you get there or maybe they won't be warm an gooey like the one I had was. Very yummy.

In a bit I'll take a walk around and see what's cool. I think there's more than in past years. Luminary Micro had a bunch of little robots. Outside, there was a robotic Giraffe and someone else had an automated system for dispensing booth give-aways.

Duane Benson
Feed me... Feed me...

ESC - Day 0.128

Well, I'm here and unlike in past years (here and here), ALL of my boxes are here too. We've got a bigger booth this year (#1944), at 10x20 instead of a 10x10 and we're also inside the hall for the first time. That's cool. I'll probably be done setting in up twenty minutes or so. Then I have a couple of hours to hang out and do whatever. Maybe I'll go check out the nearby Tech Museum.

Duane Benson
See (some of you) soon

On The Way To San Jose

A scene being repeated all over the West coast... I'm sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to San Jose. I had to get up at 4:00am to get here on time and I'm tired. I'll get down there in a couple of hours, set up the booth and then find a way to occupy myself for the evening.

I always like this show. It's refreshing to be surrounded by so many engineers and cool things going on at the other booth's. I hope to see you there - booth 1944. Read this post, and you can get a free pass to the show.

Duane Benson
I'm going to find some piece of mind...

Upcoming Tradeshows

We're going to the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose and we'll be in Booth 1944 on April 15-17. Come see us. It'll be fun. You can get a get a free strongly motivationalist Screaming Circuits poster. Maybe even a true geek shirt.

Follow this link to get a free admission to the exhibits. When you register, be sure and enter our priority code: "SC01".

Later in the month, we're also going to the Del Mar Electronics show April 30/May 1 in the Del Mar fairgrounds, Booth 202.

Duane Benson
Hope to see you there!

ESC Go time!

Show floor. day one. We're set, just waiting for all the attendees. Drop by and see us in booth 1131 if you're here at the show.

I'm not sure what else is here, but I'll look around and hopefully find something interesting to write about.

That's Jered in the red speaking with our first booth visitor today.

Duane Benson
1 if by land, 10 if by sea

Embedded Systems Conference, Boston 07

I left Portland for Boston via Newark sometime last night. I don't remember exactly when but I know I didn't sleep more than about 20 minutes during the overnight flight. Any of you that have flown coach lately know why. I'm sure we loose a couple of inches of leg room every year.

Well, I'd like to say "we have tradeshow" but it's still early in the setup so all we have is chaos.

That's pretty normal. Four of our six boxes are here. The booth is in the two missing crates. All of our cool T-shirts are here though.

I'm running on 20 minutes of sleep and two latte's. One from New Jersey and one from Boston. Not much to do but relax and wait...

Duane Benson
Fight Uni