[LCA2019 Chat] Tomu and Fomu BoF - Thursday @ 03:10pm (Afternoon Tea) - Free (freedom and beer) hardware!

[Tim 'mithro' Ansell]

Hi everyone,

We (myself, Tim 'mithro' Ansell, and Sean 'xobs' Cross) are going to be
running at Tomu and Fomu BoF tomorrow at 03:10pm in A1. We would love to
meet users of the hardware and people doing similar or related projects!

For those who don't know - Tomu is a cheap, tiny microcontroller which
*literally* fits inside your USB port. Tomu FPGA (or Fomu for short) is a
new FPGA platform which has the same form factor as the Tomu (and
crowdfunding at https://j.mp/fomu-cs). You can find out more at Tomu and
Fomu @ https://tomu.im

While Sean and I we designed the Tomu hardware and created some simple
examples, we don't necessarily *know* what people are doing with the
devices. We would love to find out what people are doing with Tomu boards!
We have seen people do cool things like hiding data in the LED blinking
<https://hackaday.com/2018/06/10/joe-grand-is-hiding-data-in-plain-sight-leds-that-look-solid-but-send-a-message/>
and
running a Commodore 64 emulator <https://www.pagetable.com/?p=956>.

We would also like to find out what people want to do with the boards and
can't yet do so! Hopefully we can find ways to improve Tomu and the Tomu
ecosystem in the future to enable your applications.

Both myself and Sean will have various forms of the original Tomu and the
new Fomu hardware at the BoF for people to play with and give out. My
policy is that *anyone* who contributes to the project in any way gets some
type of hardware (coding is just one way)!

We will also have things like the EVT stretch board, plastic case and a
programming jig if people want to see various parts of the production
process.

Hope to see you then!

Tim 'mithro' Ansell

PS People who are following Fomu bootloader progress -- We now have data
flowing, should just be a matter of software now!
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