Sorry about the late notice on this, but we’ve decided to forego this month’s talk (the one scheduled for today). There was just too much swirl around the topics and presenters. Next month’s should be pretty interesting: a round table discussion with several mobile platform developers here in town where we discuss the iPhone, Android, and Palm platforms.
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Hi, guys, do you already have the lineup for next month’s talk? I have a friend, formally with Sony, who is doing some mobile app developement. I didn’t know if you were interested in adding more folks to the mix.
Looking forward to next month then…the mobile apps discussion is always an, excuse the loose pun, apt one.
I really have been confused what “tech” means as coming from the silicon valley where I spent 25 years in the high tech areas it seems the tech talk here is narrow in what a few believe fits the “tech” label.
I posted here and also sent an email about 1 1/2 years ago when people were asked to present what they do with their business that is tech related and I stated a would do a full blown demo and discussion of how I took electronics, LAN/wireless networking, EPA/SAE OBD car standards along with backward engineering to monitor, obtain data and custom change how the computers and controllers work in cars/light trucks.
I got zero reply from anyone on this.
JR in Bend
@John RovnerFirst, my apologies for the lack of followup on your offer to present last year. The best excuse I can give is that you were a victim of the overall malaise that fell over BendTech in 2008. I’ll email you offline to talk about getting you on the talk calendar if you’re still interested.
Regarding, “what a few believe fits the ‘tech’ label,” let me politely put that conspiracy theory to rest. If BendTech focuses on one area of tech (I assume you’re referring to all the software/Internet-y talk around here) it’s not by design or intent. We’ve been very clear about our willingness to open this blog up to contributions from anyone involved in “tech”, however they chose to define it. But the reality is that nobody is stepping forward.
The content of this blog is comes largely from Matt and I, and from the COWPU, COISUG, and G5 blogs which we aggregate here. And also from James Gentes, who recently joined our roll of authors. This is not because we choose to limit it to these sources; it’s because these are the only sources we have available. If you’d like to blog for us, or know of blogs that you’d like to see aggregated here please, by all means, let us know!
Due to the state of the economy, outsourcing and tens of thousands of non American VISA workers that took away the high tech jobs we worked hard for decades it is clear to make any use of our high tech college degrees we have to go beyond the norm and use our experiences to learn how to use our talents in new ways.
I did that, though barely but it took a ton of my own time and self learning along with backward engineering to take hardware, software, electronics and networking to form a product/service very few can do.
To demo all this what would be needed from your end is a way to show my laptop’s video onto a screen so all can see and best case located so that I could have my car or truck close to the demo room so that while parked and engine running connect to all controllers in the car via wireless to the laptop.
If that is not possible then I can bring a “OFF-Board” setup of a engine controller and static connect to it.
You’ll have to give me a hard date to do this and to cover all the parts and then questions, could take 2 to 3 hours in time.
Would cover.
Car controllers, computers, feedback sensors.
SAE/EPA OBD standards and protocols
LAN/wireless Ad-hoc, peer to peer and intranet using TCP/IP
Real-time scanning, recording and analyzing live captured data.
Connecting to car’s controllers via IEEE 802.11g or USB, taking control of them and changing their software to change how the car functions.
Using spreadsheets to take car data, making sense of it and computing engine functions to custom tune how engine management uses adaptive strategy and changing how it functions for better performance or even to increase fuel mileage.
JR – Team ZR-1 Corvette Racer’s LLC
JR,
I would be interested in your presentation!
Rich
@John Rovner
I would be interested also! Sounds very interesting.
I could set this up within a few days of someone contacting me that sets the schedule dates.
At this time I have not been contacted.
JR
John – let’s meet directly and discuss. Robert and I already spoke and certainly there is interest for having you present. As such, we’ll nail down a schedule and Robert will email you further. In the meantime, let’s see if we can meet up the week of the 6th for lunch. Please email Robert and I directly as to your availability for the week of the 6th of July.
Thanks.
Matt
I do software development related to trading global financial markets: US stocks, various global futures, and forex. There are a lot of “trading platform” products targeted at individuals that are extremely capable. I’ve used a number of them and am generally familiar with many more.
I have no idea whether a presentation about these trading platforms and how they are configured and how they can be used by individuals would be interesting as a BendTech talk.
If it would be interesting, I’d be happy to prepare a presentation and demo.