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	<title>Seabright Technology</title>
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	<description>Good Software Engineering</description>
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		<title>Coworking in Christchurch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m quite keen on the coworking idea &#8211; small businesses sharing space with others working in similar areas.  Great if you want someone to talk to or bounce ideas off.
Two different ones have popped up on mailing lists recently:

Epicentre for ~$350 a desk
Clarus for ~$500/10 m^2

The Canterbury Innovation Incubator is along similar lines.
One on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seabright.co.nz/2010/08/16/coworking-in-christchurch/</link>
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		<title>ARM performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently purchased a couple of KwikByte KBOC_BB2 OMAP3530 based development boards.  I was a bit surprised how slow it was to do a native build of FFmpeg but, after a bit of reflection, it does all add up.
The following tests are for a sample size of one, and therefore aren&#8217;t very scientific, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seabright.co.nz/2010/07/04/arm-performance/</link>
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		<title>Announcing wrdk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to announce wrdk, a development kit for the WikiReader.
wrdk is a pre-built toolchain, libraries, set of examples, and simple
serial loader that makes developing applications for the Openmoko
WikiReader a little bit easier.  Included is fairly high level access
to most of the hardware including the file system, LCD, buttons, and
touch screen.
The development cycle is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seabright.co.nz/2010/06/01/announcing-wrdk/</link>
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		<title>Pong on the WikiReader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a simple development kit for the Openmoko WikiReader.  I&#8217;d like to get a win32 build up and going before releasing it, but here&#8217;s a bit of a teaser until then:

My son and I made this in a couple of hours.  There&#8217;s a blitting glitch when the ball hits the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seabright.co.nz/2010/05/22/pong-on-the-wikireader/</link>
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		<title>Bouncing a ball on the WikiReader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my standard &#8216;hello world&#8217; applications is bouncing a ball around the screen.  Here&#8217;s a video of the WikiReader version:

The rig at the top is a 3.3 V serial level converter that hooks into the debug connector.  The WikiReader boots a small serial loader from the SD card so that I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seabright.co.nz/2010/04/25/bouncing-a-ball-on-the-wikireader/</link>
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		<title>Cracking the WikiReader open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pictures of a cracked-open WikiReader are (suitably) on the wiki
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		<link>http://seabright.co.nz/2010/04/20/cracking-the-wikireader-open/</link>
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		<title>First steps on the WikiReader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a small achievement, but I got my first application running on the Openmoko WikiReader.  It&#8217;s a hacked version of their application that only displays a image and single line of text but, still, it&#8217;s a start:

I can think of a range of uses for the device so far:

A scrollable map with details on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seabright.co.nz/2010/04/18/first-steps-on-the-wikireader/</link>
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		<title>Exercising a battery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had an enjoyable time today exercising a new Lithium Polymer (LiPo) battery for a client.  The enjoyable part was how well the tools came together and how little effort was involved in the end.
The battery is a single cell 3.7 V with a 3500 mAh capacity.  I charged it at 1 A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seabright.co.nz/2010/04/13/exercising-a-battery/</link>
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		<title>Jobs available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Christchurch based client is interested in hiring an embedded engineer and a C# desktop application engineer.  Please contact me if you&#8217;re interested.  Python or control system knowledge is a plus.
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		<link>http://seabright.co.nz/2010/04/04/positions-available/</link>
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		<title>The Ben NanoNote and open hardware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: I got a nice email from Wolfgang at sharism about running Debian on the NanoNote.  See here for more.  It seems that OpenWRT is still the platform of choice but you can opt for Debian when trying out new ideas.
Qi Hardware have an interesting new product called the
Ben NanoNote.  While the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seabright.co.nz/2010/03/18/the-ben-nanonote-and-open-hardware/</link>
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