Robert Wolff

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• OpenHours Episode 150 - 96Boards AMA

  Thursday, June 6, 2019

  Introduction Sahaj showed off some demos, and the community spoke up a bit! Another fun OpenHours. Links and resources Ultra96 on 96Boards Livestream recording Join us next week! https://www.96boards.org/

• OpenHours Episode 149 - 96Boards AMA

  Thursday, May 30, 2019

  Introduction In this episode, we covered quite a few things. Even though it is labeled as an AMA, we do not get very many questions during the stream, and we...

• 96Boards Maker Faire Bay Area Breakdown!

  Monday, May 27, 2019

  Before diving into this blog, I wanted to first provide everyone with a little note/disclaimer. This is a breakdown of my overall experience at the Maker Faire Bay Area (some...

• OpenHours Episode 148 - WizeIoT and the AiVA-96

  Thursday, May 23, 2019

  Introduction WizeIoT Presets the Aiva96 Mezzanine, Episode 148. AiVA-96, built around the XMOS XVF3000 voice processor with direct interfacing to a line array of four digital microphones, the AiVA board...

• OpenHours Episode 147 - Experience Daliona

  Thursday, May 16, 2019

  Introduction **Alex Martin joins us for OpenHours, Episode 147. Experience Daliona, Sidewalk Science Centers and science-fiction novels! Experience Daliona provides initiatives and strategies to engage the public with accessible science...

• 96Boards at Maker Faire Bay Area!

  Tuesday, May 14, 2019

  See you at Maker Faire, Bay Area! For the first time ever, 96Boards will have a booth at Maker Faire Bay Area! Joined by a small group of amazing partners...

• OpenHours Episode 146 - Arm Laptops and 96Boards repo review

  Thursday, May 9, 2019

  Introduction Let’s dive into the forums, documentation and website repositories and review issues, maybe even fix a few? To top this off, we will be joined by Linaro Enginner, Daniel...

• OpenHours Episode 145 - 96Boards AMA with Sahaj and Mani

  Thursday, May 2, 2019

  Introduction This week the 96Boards team took a few rounds of Q&As, we updated on what we’ve been up to and threw in a few demos! Unfortunately, Robert was out...

• OpenHours Episode 144 - Bootloaders and Secure Firmware with David Brown

  Friday, April 26, 2019

  Introduction Secure Firmware with David Brown of Linaro! David Brown is a Senior Engineer at Linaro who has been working on ARM Linux since about 2007, as well as general...

• OpenHours Episode 124

  Wednesday, November 21, 2018

  Introduction This week, we spoke with Janelle Letzen, the sushi scientist! Janelle is a PhD and postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University conducting research on brain function associated with chronic...

• 96Boards at Arm TechCon

  Wednesday, November 21, 2018

  Introduction Last month, I had the opportunity to go to Arm TechCon in San Jose, CA. While this trip was originally intended to evangelize 96Boards at the Linaro booth, it...

• OpenHours Episode 109 - Shiratech, FPGA Mezzanine

  Thursday, August 2, 2018

  Introduction This week, we met with Ramon Horkany from Shiratech Solutions. Shiratech is a new 96Boards partner who has hit the ground running with two amazing 96Boards mezzanine boards, which...

• OpenHours Episode 108 - Contest Announcements!

  Sunday, July 29, 2018

  Introduction This week, we had three special contest announcements! In the first half of the broadcast, we spoke about several contests which will take place in many places around the...

• OpenHours Episode 107 - Hello Chava

  Thursday, July 19, 2018

  Introduction This week, we will spoke with Meral and Isaac from Hello Chava, two of the hardest working people I follow on Instagram. On an almost daily basis, you will...

• OpenHours Episode 106 - Disruptityourself

  Thursday, July 12, 2018

  Introduction This week, we met with Andrew from Distrupt it Yourself, who uses 3D printers and other disruptive tools to encourage others to make! Andrew was seriously well versed and...

• OpenHours Episode 105 - Shiratech

  Thursday, July 5, 2018

  Introduction This week, we met with Ramon Horkany and Guy Zohar from Shiratech Solutions. Shiratech is a new 96Boards partner who has hit the ground running with two amazing 96Boards...

• OpenHours Episode 104

  Friday, June 29, 2018

  Introduction This week, we spoke with Ron Justin from GroupGets and Michael Welling of QWERTY Embedded. Thanks to these two, we were able to launch the first ever crowd funded...

• OpenHours ep 93 - Software Defined Radio on the DragonBoard 820c

  Wednesday, February 28, 2018

  Introduction Episode 93, coming at you loud and clear! This week in OpenHours, we will be speaking with Don Harbin of Linaro about his work with the DragonBoard 820c! As...

• OpenHours ep 90 - A look at the 96Boards Cello

  Thursday, February 8, 2018

  Introduction The big 90! This week we come at you with possibly four segments (time permitting) that will surely make you anticipate the weeks and months to come. A look...

• Coursera Revamp! UCSD's IoT Specialization featuring 96Boards

  Thursday, February 1, 2018

  Coursera IoT Re-vamp! Featuring UCSD, Qualcomm and 96Boards! Introduction In 2015 the University of California, San Diego - Qualcomm Institute (CALIT2) teamed up with Qualcomm to create a massive open...

• Welcome to 2018, WW96D!

  Monday, January 1, 2018

  Happy New Year - WW96D! As 2017 comes to a close, I could not help but write a blog to summarize the many things 96Boards has done throughout the year!...

• Holiday Special OpenHours Episode 83

  Saturday, December 23, 2017

  Introduction OpenHours Episode #83 - The holiday season is here and so is the time of giving (says many traditions :-)! For this, we once again welcome back maddog to...

• 96Boards goes to Japan!

  Friday, December 1, 2017

  ET2017 - Embedded Technology Conference Introduction The Embedded Technology 2017 conference kicked off on November 15, 2017. Day one, the gates of the convention center rolled up at 8:00a and...

• OpenHours ep 76 Recap - Deep Learning and Tensorflow on 96Boards

  Thursday, October 26, 2017

  Introduction This week on OpenHours we took a journey into Deep Learning and Computer Vision with the Snapdragon while focusing on both 410 and 820 chip sets. Joined by Ali...

• OpenHours ep 75 Recap - OneRF, 96Boards IoT Gateway

  Thursday, October 19, 2017

  Introduction OneRF designed a robust IoT gateway based on 96Boards DragonBoard 410c for outdoor and industrial IoT. With DragonBoard 410c, the gateway has edge processing capacity. This means processing happens...

• OpenHours ep 73 Recap - DragonWally

  Thursday, October 12, 2017

  Introduction DragonWally brings two high-resolution cameras to take pictures of the same scene from different points of view. An epistolary geometry algorithm then calculates the distance of the detected objects,...

• OpenHours ep 73 Recap - Safe2Med

  Thursday, October 5, 2017

  Introduction Saúde Certa(Safe2Med) is a project that aims to minimize the error in the administration of medicines and at the same time allow a smarter interaction of patients in hospital...

• OpenHours ep 72 Recap - Live from Linaro Connect SFO17

  Thursday, September 28, 2017

  Introduction Panel of industry professionals including Gumstix, Qualcomm, Arm, 96Boards, QWERTY Embedded and Red Hat! Sponsored by Linaro - We welcomed everyone (on site and online) to participate in the...

• OpenHours ep 71 Recap - AWS Greengrass

  Thursday, September 21, 2017

  Introduction Edge computing and industrial IoT were on the docket for this week’s OpenHours. Once again, we were joined by Rajan Mistry from Qualcomm to talk about the amazing efforts...

• OpenHours ep 70 Recap - The 96Boards Project Cycle

  Thursday, September 14, 2017

  Introduction Does anyone remember the home surveillance project created by Mani Sadhasivam (96Boards Applications engineer) several months ago? Well since then, people from Qualcomm have taken this project and turned...

• Open Source Summit - 2017

  Wednesday, September 13, 2017

  Introduction Day one of the Open Source Summit in North America started out with a bang! After the scheduled morning meditation and breakfast, a series of Keynotes kicked off which...

• OpenHours ep 69 Recap - DragonBoard & Linaro Team

  Thursday, September 7, 2017

  Introduction In this episode of OpenHours, we met with Nicolas Dechesne of Linaro! Nico works as tech lead for a team within Linaro focused on software enablement (among many other...

• OpenHours ep 68 Recap - Tech Talk

  Thursday, August 31, 2017

  Introduction In this episode we talk about Fuchsia OS, Fedora Flock, the new protomezzanine from the mezzanine-community repository and more! Join us as we meet with Sahaj Sarup from Geek...

• OpenHours ep 67 Recap - Live from Denver, Colorado

  Thursday, August 24, 2017

  Introduction This episode was hosted from the Hyatt Regency hotel lobby in Denver Colorado. The episode caught me slightly off guard since I had just finished attending a conference and...

• OpenHours ep 66 Recap - Monero and Kovri

  Thursday, August 17, 2017

  Introduction This week (August 17th) on OpenHours we met with several folks from Monero and Kovri (cryptocurrency and I2P service). In this episode, we got a crash course on cryptocurrency,...

• OpenHours ep 65 Recap - Fedora on 96Boards

  Thursday, August 10, 2017

  Introduction This week (August 10th) on OpenHours we met with Peter and Paul from Red Hat to talk about the soon to be Fedora images for 96Boards! The entire episode...

• OpenHours ep 64 Recap - Blackwhale (HIJ) and 96Boards

  Thursday, August 3, 2017

  Introduction In this week’s episode of OpenHours (August 3rd), we spoke with Xingchao and Wing from Blackwhale which is an innovative technology company out of China. Blackwhale focuses on smart...

• Brazil Partnership in San Diego

  Monday, July 31, 2017

  Introduction Last week on OpenHours ep #63, I had the opportunity to hang out with some of the coolest people I have ever come across. I am of course referring...

• 96Boards OpenHours#59 and the D3 DesignCore Camera Mezzanine announcement

  Monday, June 26, 2017

  Introduction This special episode of 96Boards OpenHours was brought to you live from the Qualcomm Thinkabit lab in San Diego. We were joined by both Lawrence King and Rajan Mistry...

• D3 DesignCore™ Camera Mezzanine Board on OpenHours

  Tuesday, June 20, 2017

  Introduction Since I started with Linaro/96Boards I have had the fortunate opportunity to participate in a variety of product releases, and today marks yet another exciting milestone. We would like...

• Some 96Boards updates from different Regions

  Saturday, June 17, 2017

  Since the beginning of this year, 96Boards has been seen around the world. Let’s take a look at some of the impact we have made… Mexico In February of 2017,...

• Google’s Magenta Kernel On The Hikey 960

  Thursday, June 1, 2017

  Introduction - Written by guest Author, Sahaj Sarup I would like to start off by thanking Sahaj Sarup for providing all of the necessary materials for this blog. Including draft...

• Playing on the 96Boards Sensors Mezzanine with Jean-Marc Jobin

  Monday, May 1, 2017

  Introduction - With help from guest Author, Jean-Marc Jobin I would like to start off by thanking Jean-Marc for providing all of the necessary materials for this blog. Including draft...

• HiKey960 takes over 96Boards and OpenHours!

  Saturday, April 29, 2017

  Introduction On April 25th, 2017 96Boards OpenHours broke away from it’s usual broadcast time to offer a special announcement episode via their regular BlueJeans channel. This surprise gathering brought people in...

• Chihuahua, Mexico hacks 96Boards

  Wednesday, April 26, 2017

  It’s been two months since I had the opportunity to visit Mexico and take part in an amazing event around 96Boards, more specifically the DragonBoard 410c… In light of some up...

• OpenHours "Community Minute" - Testing the 96Boards Audio Mezzanine with Jean-Marc Jobin

  Thursday, April 20, 2017

  Introduction - With help from guest Author, Jean-Marc Jobin The following notes summarize Jean-Marc’s experience with the DragonBoard 410c, running Android OS, complimented with the Audio Mezzanine available from Arrow...

• 96Boards in Brazil - Country wide IoT Partnership Program!

  Friday, April 14, 2017

  Hello everyone! Olá a todos! Good morning, good afternoon and good night! 96Boards is lighting the beacon to call forward all Brazilian embedded hackers and Internet of Things (IoT) enthusiasts who...

• "Project BIG Button" with Barry Byford

  Sunday, April 2, 2017

  Introduction With help from guest Author, Barry Byford I am sure you are all wondering… What happened in this week’s OpenHours?! Especially for those who missed the live call, this...

• 96Boards for 96Brews - Automated Home Brewing

  Tuesday, March 28, 2017

  Introduction OpenHours (episode #45) was on this week, and as usual it was a lot of fun! With so much happening recently, the OpenHours team thought it was about time...

• ST, System Level ESD Protection and OpenHours

  Friday, January 20, 2017

  It all started with an email and a referral, and before you know it, the 96Boards OpenHours team was ready to meet with the great minds of STMicroelectronics. The topic...

• Welcome to 2017, Year of the 96Boards!

  Friday, January 6, 2017

  Happy New Year! NOTE: Pair this blog with this episode of OpenHours! Yes that’s right, it is now the year 2017, and here at 96Boards headquarters (i.e. everywhere) things are...

• DIY Drone featuring Gumstix! 96Boards take flight on OpenHours

  Wednesday, November 2, 2016

  96Boards take flight on OpenHours! As you may have seen, OpenHours broke into Season 2 with an exciting miniseries on drone development for 96Boards! In this two-part series we spoke...

• DragonBoard 410c Workshop - 96Boards visits Qualcomm

  Wednesday, August 31, 2016

  Hello everyone! Welcome to the always fun (to read) and never boring blogs by the 96Boards team here at Linaro. I would like to keep this post short and sweet,...

• 96Boards Out of box experience guide - part 5

  Wednesday, June 8, 2016

  Congratulations! Four whole blogs down and ready for the fifth. In this last month we have been through a lot of material, I think it deserves a short recap: Part...

• 96Boards Out of box experience guide - part 4

  Wednesday, June 1, 2016

  Hello again, and welcome to part 4 of the out of box experience guide. This week we will be looking at the low speed expansion header on your 96Boards. The...

• 96Boards Out of box experience guide - part 3

  Tuesday, May 24, 2016

  You’ve made it to part three of the out of box experience! Previously we spoke about three different Consumer Edition boards (HiKey, DragonBoard 410c, and Bubblegum-96) and what makes them...

• 96Boards Out of box experience guide - part 2

  Tuesday, May 17, 2016

  In the last issue of this blog series, we took a quick look at the 96Boards unboxing process. I talked about gathering all the out of box necessities, setting up...

• 96Boards Out of box experience guide - part 1

  Monday, May 9, 2016

  So your first 96Boards was just delivered, you open the box and find a shiney DragonBoard™ 410c staring right back at you… Ok, well what now? Hopefully you remembered to...

• Summary of most frequently asked questions at ELC (3/3)

  Monday, April 25, 2016

  All in all, ELC was a great event - full of interesting keynotes, sessions and opportunities for networking. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the level of interest around Linaro and...

• Day two and three of ELC (2/3)

  Friday, April 22, 2016

  Day 2 Tuesday(04/05/16) - ELC Day two started with setting up demos and an entire set of keynotes dedicated to IoT. As I was busy managing the booth, I did...

• Brief intro to ELC and day one (1/3)

  Wednesday, April 20, 2016

  The Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) has been the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for the past 10 years for companies and developers using Linux in embedded products. As a Gold Sponsor,...