And it went pretty well, all things considered. Most of the talks were interesting, and we had fewer clunkers than we had in the past, though what counts as a clunker's always pretty subjective. We had robots, too, which is darned cool, though I'm somewhat biased there. (And the poster session on PIC chips was interesting. You can get a fully programmable 8-bit microcontroller with 64K of RAM for $11. (This would be the spot to cue the "Imagine a beowulf cluster..." splashblot posts) You can do a lot with 64K of RAM on an 8-bit system, and at that price you can gang together a half-dozen affordably)
Unfortunately my talk was, well... sloppy. Kim was fairly kind in her assessment--the talk desperately needed a good edit and runthrough, and I should've had more concrete examples in it. I was trying not to pull Parrot into it and be more general, and I think that was a mistake.
Nah, that's not true. I know it was a mistake. Bleah. Next year maybe.
Can we have slides Dan?
Posted by: Andrew Stopford at November 13, 2003 06:20 PMSure. I'll need to annotate them a bit and yank an image or two (not mine to redistribute) but I'll get a PDF of the talk up when I get a chance.
Posted by: Dan at November 14, 2003 02:04 PM