mbed will be at Makerfaire! (March 13-14, Newcastle, UK)
If you're there, come over and say hi!
For the uninitiated, a Makerfaire is where:
"...technology meets art, science meets fashion, engineering meets crafting and that's just the tip of the iceberg. This DIY festival features cool robots, clever gadgets, garden shed inventions, knitted wonders, renegade fashions, cars and bikes like you've never seen before, the occasional fireball, music-making and much, much more!"We'll be showing off demos, running an 'mbed workshop', and perhaps other things too. Watch this space and our twitter feed for updates.
I've just released a new site update which adds amongst other things, the following requested features:
Favourites
To bookmark a handy forum thread, program, page or even user, simply click the star 
icon. You can see all your favourites in your My Home area. This will form the basis of more interesting things to come regarding ranking of items.
Private messaging
On any user's home page, simply click send private message, and you can send that user an email. Your email address will not be revealed to the user you are messaging.
Enjoy!
An unexpected email this week told me mbed has been chosen for the finals of the EDN Innovation awards. That's pretty cool!
If you think we'd be a worthy winner for their tools category, it'd be great if you could support us and go and vote for mbed to win! It'd be an honour to win something like this, and certainly we never dreamed of being considered in these sorts of thing when we launched 4 months ago!
Next up, embedded world...
We're going to be out at embedded world next week in Nuremberg. We'll be around the show floor, and NXP should have a demo setup on their stand to play with so I'm sure we'll hang about that too. So if you are visiting, come and say hi!
We also noticed the last day at Nuremberg is Student Day, so if you are a student visiting who is using mbed in a project, or you are planning to, come and have a chat about your ideas. We're thinking of sponsoring a few student projects with mbed's too, so come and make your case :)
Hello from Munich Airport!
I just got confirmation of a couple of mbed "lunch 'n' learn" introductory events Silica have planned in the UK:
For all the details, see their mbed & Silica Seminar in the UK page, which includes a link to register for them.
We just spotted this cool mbed project on hackaday! Check it out:
According to Dave who created it, it was just a quick test project; can't wait for any *real* projects!
For all the geeky details, check out his full writeup on limpfish.com. Nice Work :)
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