Mills planet14@boyznow.net writes:

If there is another meeting in Norwich/UEA I will probably be there.

I think November/December may be at UEA. Not really got that far ahead yet, but I suspect Syleham may get a bit less fun to get to in the depths of winter? I'd love to go to a Cambridgeshire or Essex venue, if anyone there can host a meeting...

If there is a Free Software Foundation (FSF) why is there no Free Hardware Foundation (FHF). FHF could have open source chip designs, that could be loaded on to FPGAs. Image free modem, cpus etc.. You could get the latest bug-fix, speed improvement, feature etc.

There are several related projects underway, I think. None have reached completion (and given how much has to be put in to chip design, perhaps they won't for some time yet). Try looking at http://f-cpu.tux.org/ for example.

MJR