A Brief Intro to highlight the fact that Open Hardware Modules could be used in Academic Projects

1. Open Source Hardware for
academic projects
Aung Ko Ko Thet
B.Eng Electronics 2003
https://sg.linkedin.com/in/aungkokothet

2. 5 Mins to ask questions..
Open Source Hardware for academic
projects
–What do you expect me to talk about?
–What are the requirements for a FYP and
Master Thesis Projects?

3. Can you relate this to your life in university?

4. Learn???

5. A ca de mia
• Academia is the nationally and internationally recognized establishment
of professional scholars and students, usually centered
around collegesand universities, who are engaged in higher education
and research.

6. You need to learn details on the components of the system you are
going to create as a professional, and you also need to learn to
integrate those components as a whole and make sense out of it

7. So…let’s see if you could make sense out of
my presentation…..

8. Agenda
• Definitions
• Open Source Hardware
• Project Management
• Key Take Aways

9. The Electronics Landscape
… by Prof. Anant Agarwal (MIT) from Circuits and electronics open course ware

10. System Architecture Physical Devices

11. Picking a topic
Future Hardware Trends
– 3D Printing
– Consumer Electronics (Mobile Phones, Kitchen
Equipments..etc)
– Health and Wellness
– Home
– The Internet of Things
– Mobile Accessory
– Life Logging (Quantified Self)
– Toys and Games
– Wearable Technologies

12. Electronics Hardware Deliverables
• Documents
– System Architecture
• Interfaces? I2C, SPI, UART etc etc
• Power 12V, 5V, 3.3V, 230V, 400V etc
• Controls PWM, Digital High Low etc
– Schematics
– Bill of Materials
– PCB Layout
– Wire Lists/Wiring Drawings
• Physical Parts
– PCB Assembly
– Encasing
– Wires
– HMI
• End Product

13. System Architecture Functional

14. Schematic

15. Bill of Materials

16. Academia

17. Open Source?

18. OSHW Definition
Open source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can
• study,
• modify,
• distribute,
• make, and
• sell the design or hardware based on that design.
The hardware’s source, the design from which it is made, is available in the preferred format for making
modifications to it.
Ideally, open source hardware uses
• readily-available components and materials,
• standard processes,
• open infrastructure,
• unrestricted content, and
• open-source design tools to maximize the ability of individuals to make and use hardware.
Open source hardware gives people the freedom to control their technology while sharing knowledge
and encouraging commerce through the open exchange of designs.

19. Open Source Hardware Layers
Silicon Chip Level
Functional Level
Sub-System Level
Product
Level

20. Product Level Examples
• 3D Printer (MakerBot? Reprap?)
• Drones (AR Drones?)
• Mobile Phone (Open Moko?)
• Vehicle (Tabby?)
• RF (HackRF?)
• Instruments (RedPitaya)
• Renewable Systems (Opensource Ecology)

22. Open Source Hardware Exercise
Look at the catalogs and you can ask questions
• Type in the links in your mobile phones
• Figure out those you found there if they are at the…
– Silicon Chip Level
– Functional Level
– Sub System Level
– Product Level
….sub system level might be more suitable for FYP, for master
theses..product level (integration) or functional level (research) might be
a better approach

23. Microchip Open Source Hardware Platform

25. Arduino Business Model

27. Adafriuit

28. Processing Boards
LinkIt ONE Edison
Raspberry Pi Beaglebone

29. Factors to compare
• Expandability
• Hardware Accessibility
• Community
• Processor
• RAM
• Flash
• Std I/Os HDMI, Audio, USB, Ethernet, COM, Wifi, Bluetooth, GSM, GPRS
• Digital I/Os GPIO, PWM , Timers, Counters etc
• Analog I/Os
• Interface I/Os I2C, CAN, I2S, SPI, 1 wire
• Power Consumption
• Arduino Comaptibility
• Dimension
• OS
• Price

30. Raspberry pi

31. beagleboard

32. Typical Example
..from beaglebone black wiki

33. Communities
• Myanmar PIC Group
• Open Source Hardware Association
• Open Source Ecology
• DIYs
• Audrino
• Sparkfun
• Adafruit
• Raspberry Pi
• Chip Makers Supported Community
• Component Suppliers Supported Community

34. Element 14 community

35. Digikey Product Training Modules

36. Myanmar PIC Group

37. NYE Tech Force

38. Chip Makers Supported Community
• Microchip
• Texas Instruments
• NXP Semiconductors
• ARM
• AVR
• Power Integrations
• Altea
• Wolfson Open source Audio Board (Jasper)

39. And…more
• MIT Open Course Ware ..recommended circuit
and electronics
• Coursera
• khan academy
• TED Talks
• Ben Heck’s show (element 14)
• EEVBlog
• Tear Downs

41. Constraints are everywhere in every project, embrace them to push your creativity
Thesis/FYP
requirements
Budget???
NYE??
Lin Yar Ma???
I have other
things to do???

42. The idea of iterations

43. Projects?

46. The devil’s in the details
I really got over the “get into details right away” attitude after I took some drawing classes..If
you begin to draw the details right away you can be sure that the drawing is going to
suck….you should begin by getting your proportions right for the whole scene, then you
sketch the largest objects in your scene up to the smallest one. The sketch must be very loose
at this point. Then you can proceed with shading which consists of bringing volume to
life….do it until the volumes are there..work from large to small…always…
-Patrick Lafleur, Creation object Inc (from Signal vs. Noise) [getting real 37 signals]

48. Key Take away’s…
• You are at the center of the academic project
you are working on, you need to know where
you are going, you need to decide what is
important for you, you need to use the
information wisely
• Constraints are everywhere in every project,
embrace them to push your creativity