To give attendees a chance to see some cool Microsoft .net-free technology and to reflect on how to inject innovation into their projects, I will give my favorite talk: "Innovate - Tweak, Hack, and Bend Technology".
Attendees will see how a small device (available for about $100 at Dallas Semiconductor), about the size of an iPod Shuffle, but capable of executing Java-Byte-Code, is turned into a Web server. After taking a very close look inside the workings of a digital toy camera, (available for about $10 on eBay), we are connecting it to the embedded device, creating a full featured web-cam.
Then we are going to write some Java code, load it into the device, and execute it remotely. But be warned, we are targeting an 8-bit processor running at only 40 MHz and its 1MB SRAM serves as file-system, program memory, and runtime heap.
Along the way we may add some more hardware and learn a few things about how CMOS sensors capture image data and how a Bayer-Pattern can be used to decode the sensor data.
San Diego Code Camp is taking place this weekend in the UCSD Extension buildings.
See you in Room 143, 1:15 PM to 2:30 PM: Innovate - Tweek, Hack, and Bend Technology
