BUG+NYC (The Voyage Home) and CES 2008 (Viva La Vegas)
As we wrap up 2007, we look back on how far we’ve come since we
introduced Bug Labs over four months ago. There’s been lots of awesome coverage about BUG, Peter has captured the hearts
and eyes of adoring fans everywhere, and our BUG+ events have
brought together several hundred people to share in our vision of
Community Electronics – and also help consume over a thousand beers in
the process.
So, especially after an awesome BUG+SF, Bug Labs is celebrating a
fantastic 2007 by bringing BUG+ back to our native New York. We are
hosting BUG+NYC on Monday, December 17 between 6-9pm at Verlaine,
a Bug Labs favorite located on the Lower East Side. Come by, see the
BUG and SDK in all their working glory, chat it up with your fellow
tech chums, and have a drink on us. This is our last BUG+
gathering of 2007, so we hope to see you one more time before the
holidays consume us all.
Also, Bug Labs is exhibiting at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
between January 6th through 10th. This is our first time exhibiting at
CES, otherwise known as the world’s largest tech exposition, and we’re
very excited to show BUG to the over one hundred thousand people (!)
expected to attend. If you plan to be in the crowd (here’s my CES tips if you’ve never been there before yourself), stop by our booth
(#IP 256) in the Innovations Pods area located in the Sands. We’ll have
a station where you can play with the BUG and SDK, and perhaps for the
first time in CES history, you can help us create a new device right
there on the show floor. There’s no better way to start off 2008!
December 6th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
See you guys on the 17th. Sounds like fun, I’ve walked by the place hundreds of times…
December 8th, 2007 at 5:37 am
I threw this post a link, but Haloscan choked on the trackback URL. I’m interested in seeing how this pans out. Best of luck to all of you!
December 12th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Are you keeping a list of desired modules? Here’s my list:
HDMI, Telephone modem (for auto-dialing), speaker, Bluetooth (for keybrd/mouse), battery, 1Gb ethernet, harddrive, radio clock, non-touch LCD.
December 16th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
This sounds like an awesome event. I agree, the key to BUGs success is the amount of modules available….fingerprint scanner I would like to add to Rob’s list…
December 16th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
We have the communication modules – one Si3050 DAA, another ADSL modem, with Ethernet. What would anyone do with them?
Not sure what you mean by HD – SSD, IDE?
BTW – the Si3050 DAA will still require the software. We were using a MCF5275 CPU, and the software was a commercial RTOS and TCP/IP stack. If you already have the modem SW you can use any CPU. The Coldfire CPU here is accompanied by a TI DSP and that’s where the DTMF and all, gets done. You need that, otherwise you’re stuck using DTMF transceivers.
Also, don’t forget it will have to be FCC. If you buy a certified module, say, from Clare, it’s canned, but limited and expensive. The total Si3050 is around $10 in a couple square inches, but then you have to get the FCC yourself, which isn’t too bad.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Are you planning to add RFID reader and barcode scanning modules by any chance?