News
PPSi
ppsi-v2013.11
While we tagged releases 2013.08 and 2013.09 without a public news item, we are now proud to announce the release of ppsi-v2013.11, that is going to be used by default as PTP engine in the White Rabbit node.
RHINO
High-performance Signal and Data Processing Workshop 2014
The next High-performance Signal and Data Processing in South Africa (HPSPSA) Workshop will take place between 27-31 January 2014 at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. The workshop aims to bring together key people to discuss grand challenges facing the signal processing community in Radio Astronomy, Gamma Ray Astronomy and Particle Physics, and to provide knowledge sharing to delegates in both a lecture format, as well as a classroom environment for hands-on hardware training.
CERN BE-CO-HT contribution to KiCad
06-11-2013: EETimes article
Javier D. Garcia-Lasheras, Open Science Activist wrote the EETimes article KiCad: CERN’s Contribution to Free/Open PCB Design: The hardware fraternity at CERN believes that KiCad can do to PCB design what the GCC compiler did to software, letting design and development knowledge flow more freely in the open hardware community.
White Rabbit
06-11-2013: WR goes to see the galaxy
Martin Bruckner and Ralf Wischnewski from DESY has presented at the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013) several articles describing a White Rabbit setup used for the HiSCORE-Tunka detector. This HiSCORE detector, a new non-imaging wide-angle Air-Cherenkov ground based array, is currently in its engineering phase.
ZIO
ZIO presented at ICALEPCS'2013
On behalf of the ZIO development team, Tomasz Włostowski presented a mini-oral and poster at ICALEPCS'2013 in San Francisco. You will find the paper, poster and slides in the files section.
White Rabbit
23-10-2013: First WR project newsletter published
The first WR project newsletter has been published. The newsletter is made of voluntary contributions from people who are developing or using WR technology. The style is informal and aims at giving a quick snapshot of where the project is and where it’s heading.
OHR Meta Project
07-10-2013: "How to create successful OH projects"
How to create successful open hardware projects - about White Rabbits and open fields (pdf) is a presentation describing the CERN Open Hardware projects and contains a very short introduction about the White Rabbit project.
OHR Meta Project
07-10-2013: OH workshop held in San Francisco
An Open Hardware workshop was held on 6 October just before the start of the ICALEPCS 2013 International Conference on Accelerator & Large Experimental Physics Control Systems. Soon you’ll be able to find the presentations at the workshop page.
OHR Meta Project
07-10-2013: Programmable Planet blogs about OHWR
William Murray writes about the ohwr.org site in his blog CERN’s Open Hardware Project: Where White Rabbits Photomultiply. Note that, unlike the blog states, the designs are not made with the Kicad tool.