------------------------------- Wed Dec 17 06:29:52 PM EST 2025 ------------------------------- Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, Dec 17. 2025 Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet In attendance (14 total): Speaker(s): * Federico Lucifredi * Kurt Keville BLU officers: * John Abreau * Jerry Feldman * Bill Ricker Attendees (named): * Brendan Kidwell * Edward Piecewicz * James (W1) Shaw Attendees (anonymous): * Chuba * grg * Joshua * Mike S * R * Ron BC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R says:Is there an installfest planned yet for 2026? 18:55 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Abreau says:Yes, we put in a request at UMB for Feb 21, 2026 18:56 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R says:Great! 18:56 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Abreau says:Waitingfor cofirmation before announcing it 18:56 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Feldman says:Yes, scheduled for March 18:56 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R says:March or February? 18:57 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Abreau says:Febrauary21 18:57 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Abreau says:oops, my keyboard farted! 18:57 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R says:Same day of week regardless R says:Does John's "oops" mean March or is there a disagreement? 18:58 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Abreau says:No, it'sstill pallned for February 21st 18:59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R says:okay 18:59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Feldman says:Yes, we had scheduled a few different dates. February is correct 18:59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R says:thanks 19:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joshua says:I'm going to be talking later too 19:11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R says:On the window that's in focus on the Mac desktop, the font is too small. You might resize it to fit the full desktop screen. R says:Some basic questions I might ask at some point since I'm not the best informed person on this subject: What is RISC V? What is a Beagleboard? What is the relation between RISC V and a Beagleboard? What is the advantage of Beagleboard over Raspberry Pi? R says:and what is Beaglebone? 19:21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joshua says:Click his Desktop video 19:23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R says:I missed a word: "everybody turn on ____ view" 19:24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Feldman says:A BeagleBone is a low-cost, powerful, open-source single-board computer (SBC) for developers and hobbyists, running Linux and featuring extensive I/O for hardware projects, often compared to Raspberry Pi but excelling in embedded control with "Capes" (add-on boards) and accessible interfaces for Python, C++, and more, with models like the BeagleBone Black (ARM Cortex-A8) and BeagleBone AI-64 (64-bit ARM) catering to different needs from basic hacking to industrial AI. 19:25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R says:Great, thanks! 19:25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kurt Keville says:Jason Kridner from Beagle board presented at BLU about 10 years ago... not sure we were recording back then... Kurt Keville says:We also got a Pandaboard demo and hackathon back then... man, that was a good SBC. 19:33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Feldman says:I found that google pixel buds tend to last a complete BLU meeting and more. 19:34 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:USB Micro B is an abomination. it puts stress on the host board instead of the cable. and both sides of the connection easily wear out quickly. 19:46 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R says:The screen we see isn't the one you want us to see R says:(i think) R says:This is the correct screen. Text is too small to read, but that's inevitable. 19:52 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joshua says:Lots of this will fit into our talk in a bit 20:04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:this write-up on the €1 board says 800×600 https://www.hackster.io/news/olimex-s-one-euro-rvpc-single-board-computer-goes-up-for-sale-next-week-1cfe4fe2c985 Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says: https://guacamole.apache.org/ Apache Guacamole is a server-side web app that gives users access to RDP, SSH, VNC. (you need to be have authorization to setup an HTTPS server, to use it) 20:19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Abreau says:Kurt, can you paste those URLs into the chat pane? 20:25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:Academic for the foreseeable future • XiangThan https://hackaday.com/2025/01/03/high-performance-rist-v/ • https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv • https://github.com/topics/risc-processor • https://cw.fel.cvut.czjwiki/courses/b4m35pap/ • Zero to ASIC • https://github.com/HPC-Lab-IITB/ Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:(OCR. caveat emptor) 20:26 Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:Conferences • RISC-V HPC workshop at IEEE SC https://riscv.epcc.ed.ac.ukicommunity/ workshops/sc25-workshop/ • RISC-V128-bit Workshop@Hipeac • RISC-V Summit https://riscv.orgicommunity/risc-v-summits/ • Secure RISC-V https://secriscv.org/ • FOSSi confs... next one is Down Underflow... https://fossi-foundation.org/downunderflow/ (not sure if I missed a slide. was looking away) 20:33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Abreau says:The conferences slide is the 2nd slide. 20:34 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:Conferences cont. • Posits in Boston https://posithub.org/ • RISC-V at IAP • https://elosniteeduhap/ • https://www.realityhackatmit.com/ • MICRO, ARITH, CHERI related conferences Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:Commercial • RISC-V Ecosystems • https://githubscom/mit-pdosixv6-riscv • https://www.aheadcomputing.com/ • OpenHW, Chipyard, • Tenstorrent, Bolt Graphics, Codasip, SiPearl • ZeroASIC, ZeroRISC, Securemicro • HPC class processors • Makerchip, Tiny Tapeout, 20:37 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kurt Keville says: https://workswithriscv.net/ 20:51 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:sorry for feedback. my computer blew up while starting a VM, and Jitsi is so helpful to rejoin a meeting with the mic opened. 20:52 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joshua says:Are any of those ports actually usb stack? (shared bus) 21:07 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kurt Keville says:N.B. the Google Nano Banana is neither a Banana Pi nor a Nano (Roofnet or Ipod). We are running out of fruit... 21:11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joshua says:for completeness, nor is it a Banana 21:12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kurt Keville says:Does it have appeal ? :} 21:13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joshua says: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7017274 Joshua says: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7054834 21:19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edward Piecewicz says:Thank you. 21:23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kurt Keville says:Thanks... 21:29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ meeting ended at Wed Dec 17 21:31:45 EST 2025