Workshop
Building Your Own Cell Phones: Basic, Linux, and Rotary
Casey Halverson
Deva Seetharam, Researcher, France Telecom Research and Development Center (FTRD)
Nathan Seidle, Proprietor, Spark Fun Electronics Inc.
Date: Tuesday, January 24
Time: 3:45pm
- 5:15pm
Location: Salon ABCD
This session will have a review and discussion of the how-to's and practicalities of making your own cell-phone or wireless GSM device. Casey Halverson will cover his basic experiments with a PIC controller based device, Deva will talk about his work on a Gumstix Linux powered device and Nathan talks about his work on retrofitting old rotary phones with GSM hardware. Learn enough to go away and make your own wireless devices.
