26c3 in Berlin
As usually, I am at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin between the years together with huega. We are a quite reduced number of people this year for various reasons: The first one is that most of our direct friends chickened out and stayed at home. The second reason is that the CCC did put a hard limit on tickets sold this year. This is sad, because not everybody that came to Berlin could attend, but this is also good because the congress is not totally overcrowded: You have a chance to attend the talks you are interested in and occasionally you get a place to sit down and hack for a bit.
I did various things on the congress already:
- I invested some time in lua and learned how to embed it into C/C++.
- I continued my work on fbuild (link to new GitHub page) and wrote a cython builder for it. It still sucks, that's why you can't find it yet on the internet. Eric was so nice to implement some features which made my life much easier.
- I made a MiniPov V3 and learned how to use the AVR toolchain. This is quite impressive: The processor has more potential then the PICs I currently use for my projects and the tool chain is easier to use. To get acquainted with it, I wrote a software PWM that made the LEDs on the MiniPov fade in and out. This took less than 30 minutes. Impressive!
- I finally took some time to pimp my blog. See previous post. Hopefully this will push me to more often post some content here.
Okay, enough chit-chat. Next talk is coming up.
Oh, here is a picture of me happily hacking away taken by huega. And another of me waving my brand new MiniPOV.
