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Next Gen BeagleBone is coming - sign up for more info!
Cathy Wicks
Hello Educators and Students, the next generation BeagleBone is coming soon. Are you signed up to receive more info? Check out this teaser video and sign up to receive info as soon as the product launches www.beagleboard.org/unzipped (Please visit the site to view this video) With l ower price...
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Apr 15, 2013
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Get a piece of DSP history, come with us to the future!
Cathy Wicks
If you haven’t seen our principal fellow, Gene Frantz’s blog post about retiring , then you may not believe it’s true. Gene will be trading in his corporate email address for a university one this week. It is impossible to simply say that I will miss his contributions at TI because...
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Jan 29, 2013
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Vote by 1/31/13 for your Favorite Beaglebone Cape!
Cathy Wicks
It's been exciting to see the BEAGLEBONE cape contest entrants submitting their designs and now it is time to VOTE ! Please take a few minutes to review the designs at http://beagleboard.org/CapeContest/entries and hit the LIKE button on your favorites. All of the designers had to do quite a bit...
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Jan 18, 2013
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2012 U.S. and Canada Analog Design Contest winners trip to Dallas
AmberPizano
Another year of the Analog Design Contest Engibous Summit is in the books, and what a great few days it was to have all our invited students and educators come to Dallas. We apologize for the Texas heat, but hopefully they won’t hold that against us! We made sure their time spent here was educational...
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Aug 3, 2012
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Now is a Great Time to Update Your DSP Lab - Or Start a New One
Cathy Wicks
This summer, with lemonade in one hand and new materials in the other, update your DSP lab with ease. You’ll be able to spend more time relaxing because we’ve got you covered . New high performance, floating point, C6000 dev kits, workshops, free software, teaching materials and best selling...
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Jun 3, 2012
Blog Post:
Maker's Faire 2012 Recap
Larissa Swanland
It's been almost a week since the annual Bay Area's Makers Faire 2012 -- but the residual excitement still remains. Makers Faire is sponsored by the O'Reilly media group in conjunction with Makezine.com . The Bay Area event is the annual largest gathering of "Makers", whose motto...
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May 27, 2012
Blog Post:
Lubbock Mini Maker's Faire- First Maker's Faire in Texas!
Larissa Swanland
I am so excited that this past Saturday the TI-University Program was able to participate in Lubbock Mini Maker's Faire! Myself, another TI'er and a carful of launchpad demos + give aways made our way to Lubbock this past weekend to participate. Launchpad at Lubbock Mini Maker's Faire...
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May 1, 2012
Blog Post:
Introduce Programming to your Students--- with a little Boost
Larissa Swanland
Traveling to various universities over the past several months, I’ve observed that many undergraduate students in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering loathe learning embedded programming languages. I’m not sure if I’m the only one that feels this way, but being able...
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Apr 6, 2012
Blog Post:
Ever After Senior Design... make it work for you.
Larissa Swanland
Senior Design is one of my favourite places to stop when I am visiting Universities. A lot of different methodologies exist for teaching Senior Design. Some have pre-ordained projects that the teams of students have to execute. Others let the students choose their own projects and make them design...
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Feb 4, 2012
Blog Post:
A Place to Play – Innovation Labs
Cathy Wicks
I’m at home this week on holiday and thought it’d be a good time to do a few ‘out of box experience’ tryouts on new dev kits . First I had to find a place to play. Clearing the dining room table and setting up electronics for an extended period causes problems with the family...
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Dec 30, 2011
Blog Post:
Easy Hands-On DSP Teaching with a Audio Out-of-Box Demo
Cathy Wicks
I have to hand it to our C5000 DSP team; they took the out of box experience challenge for demos to the next level. I absolutely love my new C5535 eZdsp USB Stick Development Kit . Without loading any software onto my PC, I set it up the first time by myself following the instructions on Mark McKeown’s...
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Nov 8, 2011
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Sign up for C2000 MCU Workshop on Oct 25 and MSP430 Launchpad training on Oct 26
AmberPizano
Wanted to share some great MCU workshops that you might want to attend! 1 Day MCU Workshops C2000 Microcontroller Workshop Agenda · Workshop Introduction ·...
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Oct 20, 2011
Blog Post:
Where has your LaunchPad been? Mine goes everywhere!
Cathy Wicks
This could be titled – Hey, what’s that in your purse ? It is so exciting that I can now carry around a live demo of our development technology safely in my purse. I’ve been hoping to accomplish this for a long time and thanks to our friends in the MSP430 team – I can take...
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Oct 13, 2011
Blog Post:
Steve Jobs: Messages for Innovation
Larissa Swanland
This past week we say goodbye to one of the technology industries visionaries: Steve Jobs. Granted there is no shortage of tributes, articles and analysis on this great man. As one of the pioneers of personalizing technology for the every-day person, I look to him as a great source of inspiration for...
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Oct 10, 2011
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Project Round Up
Larissa Swanland
Here are some really fun projects that I have found while doing my every-day internet searches. Top Row: 1. Instructables.com: A cheap motion detection camera (for Wildlife) by member : Doug Paradis 2. ti.com/launchpad: Hack a HEXBUG Spider: Eric Gregori 3. embedds.com: Chicken Coop Door...
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Oct 3, 2011
Blog Post:
Find your Car ... with embedded processing
Larissa Swanland
I was in the Santa Monica Shopping Centre this weekend, visiting a friend the weekend before this week's upcoming Anaheim TECH DAY , when I came across something really exciting! We were on our way back to our car and were laughing about now needing to find our parking spot, when a glowing kiosk...
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Oct 3, 2011
Blog Post:
TI supports Educators through SPEN Fellowship
Cathy Wicks
Attention Signal/Embedded Processing Educators – SPEN now has a fellowship for authors putting educational materials into the repository! We just returned from the Signal Processing Education Network (SPEN) meeting at Georgia Tech where Gene Frantz , TI’s Principal Fellow, announced the award...
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Oct 2, 2011
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Free lunch! oh... and a 1 Day MCU Workshop on Oct 26 at TI in Dallas
AmberPizano
Jacob, who used to be in our University Program team (defected to MCU business team a few months ago) was kind enough to remember where he came from and shared this MCU workshop with us. So, I wanted to pass this along to all you E2E Community peeps. If you're free and in the area, then you better...
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Sep 23, 2011
Blog Post:
It’s an exciting time to be an engineer
Cathy Wicks
I am inspired each time I visit a campus and meet with professors and students to discuss their goals, teaching, learning and see these ideas in progress. The greatest ideas are formulating right this minute in our world’s universities with tomorrow’s innovators, the engineering students...
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Sep 22, 2011
Blog Post:
Instructables Wireless Challenge
Larissa Swanland
Check out something interesting from www.instructables.com Apparently, they have a WEEKLY challenge that they give numerous prizes out for the best "How To" Project. This week? One of the best places that TI excells at... Wireless! This Week's Challenge: Make anything wireless...
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Sep 22, 2011
Blog Post:
Welcome to the University Zone!
Brad Ruzicka
Welcome to the first blog for the University Zone! My name is Brad Ruzicka and I manage the WW University Marketing program for Texas Instruments. Engaging and partnering with universities are an important focus for a company like TI. For a semiconductor company such as TI, it is vital to not only have...
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Sep 14, 2011