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One of our mbed developers, 
Luc Smeesters , is an active ham radio operator. He contacted us last year with an idea to run a competition to explore how microcontrollers could be applied to ham radio applications. It sounded like a great idea, so we sponsored him with a bit of mbed kit for prizes and in conjunction with the publication "QSP Revue", a competition was born. Here is a great summary from Luc of the results of what became the first "QSP Revue mbed Ham Radio Contest"
There are currently millions of ham radio (amateur radio) users around the world. These fellows are motivated by all techniques and technologies that enhance all forms of radio communications.
Belgian French Radio Amateur publication QSP Revue ran a contest, sponsored by mbed and Plantronics, to use an mbed microcontroller in a ham radio application.
Contestants were asked to submit a proposal for a project suitable for a ham application. A jury of independent amateur radio users judged the feasibility and appropriateness of the project and the most appealing proposals received an mbed to develop their projects. The contestants were also required to produce all the necessary documentation to allow other ham fellows to produce their own prototypes of the described application.
We're putting together a little demo using the new mbed NXP LPC11U24. Here are a couple of shots of it in prototype:
Can you guess what it is yet? :)
Jim Carver, Technical Director of Advanced Processor Architectures at Avnet Electronics, has just sent us a link to an interesting presentation he put together about migrating an existing 8051 based NXP RGB LED board to the ARM Cortex-M0 using the new mbed LPC11U24 microcontroller.
Our first batch of the mbed NXP LPC11U24 Microcontroller are now officially available! Order one here!
This latest mbed is designed for prototyping USB devices, battery powered applications, and 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 designs, and will be a great little brother to our existing mbed NXP LPC1768 Microcontroller.
Here are the specifications, some of the libraries we've built for you, and some examples of it in action:
O'Reilly Japan held Make: Tokyo Meeting 07 (MTM07)) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in the Meguro district on 3rd and 4th December 2011. Makers exhibited, performed, and offered workshops over a weekend to showcase and inspire others with their development projects.
Tedd OKANO was there and has written a great summary for those who weren't lucky enough to experience it...See how many mbed's you can spot!
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