Trip report: Embedded World
Mar. 2nd, 2013 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izardIt was hectic week with Embedded World, but very interesting. Now packing for a trip to Phoenix, San Jose and Portland.
In December I received a request to help with a demo at Mobile World Congress. Embedded World is more important for me than MWC, so I had to invent some excuse to go to Nuremberg rather than to Barcelona. The best excuse would be owning a demo at our booth at EW, so I got a relevant demo. And after I organised and set up the demo I received a request to speak about Yocto Linux at EW... If I knew this earlier I would not have bothered with a demo - being a speaker is much better than standing 3 days at the booth, plus setup, plus shipping. But I did not want to disappoint partners, so finally I had to do both, plus to help a colleague from Taiwan with a Yocto Linux demo.
Next to my work place at the booth there was a robot solving the Rubik's cube.
The demo was actually not about a robotic arm but about Springville ethernet NIC. A device that have some features relevant for fieldbuses e.g. Profinet they demonstrated.
Every day around 4PM, the cube was breaking to pieces.
I think it has nothing to do with a Kuka robotic hand being too harsh on the cube, just the cubes you can buy now are not robust enough to withstand constant rotation of all axis for many hours in a row.
Here is my demo by the way:
It was interesting that there was this robot demo, running PLC software from KW and Profinet, and my demo was running PLC software from Codesys and Ethercat. So both major vendors of IEC61131 software development tools and fieldbus standards were present.
For the eye catcher at Intel booth there was a big interactive wall.
On Thursday evening at 5PM I finally disassembled my setup, and packed everything to hand carry in a backpack and two small bags.
My legs were hurting a bit because of standing for 9 hours every day, but my colleagues were complaining about their backs too. I guess swimming helped me with a back.
To get to Nuernberg I bought a weekly ICE pass for 140 euros. ICE Munich-Nuernberg and back takes 2 hours 40 minutes. Plus some times to wait for a train, time in U-Bahn and S-Bahn makes it up to almost 4 hours.
In December I received a request to help with a demo at Mobile World Congress. Embedded World is more important for me than MWC, so I had to invent some excuse to go to Nuremberg rather than to Barcelona. The best excuse would be owning a demo at our booth at EW, so I got a relevant demo. And after I organised and set up the demo I received a request to speak about Yocto Linux at EW... If I knew this earlier I would not have bothered with a demo - being a speaker is much better than standing 3 days at the booth, plus setup, plus shipping. But I did not want to disappoint partners, so finally I had to do both, plus to help a colleague from Taiwan with a Yocto Linux demo.
Next to my work place at the booth there was a robot solving the Rubik's cube.
The demo was actually not about a robotic arm but about Springville ethernet NIC. A device that have some features relevant for fieldbuses e.g. Profinet they demonstrated.
Every day around 4PM, the cube was breaking to pieces.
I think it has nothing to do with a Kuka robotic hand being too harsh on the cube, just the cubes you can buy now are not robust enough to withstand constant rotation of all axis for many hours in a row.
Here is my demo by the way:
It was interesting that there was this robot demo, running PLC software from KW and Profinet, and my demo was running PLC software from Codesys and Ethercat. So both major vendors of IEC61131 software development tools and fieldbus standards were present.
For the eye catcher at Intel booth there was a big interactive wall.
On Thursday evening at 5PM I finally disassembled my setup, and packed everything to hand carry in a backpack and two small bags.
My legs were hurting a bit because of standing for 9 hours every day, but my colleagues were complaining about their backs too. I guess swimming helped me with a back.
To get to Nuernberg I bought a weekly ICE pass for 140 euros. ICE Munich-Nuernberg and back takes 2 hours 40 minutes. Plus some times to wait for a train, time in U-Bahn and S-Bahn makes it up to almost 4 hours.
