Hacking should be both with hardware & software, not just anyone. But why? This was the presentation used to answer it.

1. Hardware Design
for
Software Hackers
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2. Motivation
Why Hardware for a Software Hacker?
But why design Hardware?
Isn't it tough?
But where to get the details from?
Internet
Basic Electronics: http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/
Workshops like FOSS Workouts (to get the real feel)
Last but not Least
Computer Club of India (Ideated @ FOSS '09)
Mailing Lists, Regular Meetups & various other Activities
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3. The Flow
Getting Started
Bare Bone Hardware Design
Software Environment Setup
Design Hardware Using OSS Tools
Real Hardware & Write OSS for it
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4. Getting Started
Bare Bone Hardware Design
Base it on AVR
Backed by open source tools
Choose the hardware
Learn by skimming Datasheets
Visit the market
Enjoy shopping @ S P Road
Do it soldering-free
Start with a bread board
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5. Bare Bones
USB to Serial
Converter
Stripper
Multimeter Bread Board
9V Battery LEDs
Caps
Resistors ICs
Multimeter Cables
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6. Getting Started ...
Software Environment Setup
Install the OSS Compilers and C Libraries
avr-gcc, avr-libc, ...
Install the OSS Programmers
avrdude
Start with sample code
Toggle an LED @ 1 Hz
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7. First Design
Do it on your Bread Board
Test & Experiment
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8. Next Steps
Tested & Confident with your Bread Board Design
Move onto OSS Design Tools
Our club favourite is “kicad”
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22. PCB Fabrication
Again could be done ourselves
But is a more mechanical process
And many fabricators are there just for it
So, we get it done
And, what we get is ...
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29. What now?
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30. FOSS '10 Workout
Come & Join us at the workout
Get a hands-on experience of all these
Workout Overview
Setting up your Laptop
Bare Bone Hardware Design
Design a Hardware Kit using Kicad
Get a PCB & Experience the Solder
Test, Debug & Get your first Design working
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31. Expecting More ...
“Let the Hackers' hack – be it software or hardware”
Join us @ Computer Club of India
Vision
Make Open Hardware Hacking a commonplace thing
Mission
Promote & Support the Open Hardware Community /
Hobbyists to create their own cost-effective Kits
Bring together the Open Source Software & Hardware
Communities from India
Mailing List: computerclubin@googlegroups.com
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32. Any Queries?
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