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<DIV><BR>>We do also have an announce list John, which you can sign-up to via
the<BR>>web site <A
href="https://hacktionlab.org">https://hacktionlab.org</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>will do</FONT><BR><BR>>> For workshops,
I can't really keep up with software goings on these<BR>>> days so by
complete contrast I could offer one on how processors and<BR>>> logic
chips actually work right down at the component level, a history<BR></DIV>
<DIV>>sounds great, although is it going to be too techyfor a lot of people?
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<DIV>DEFINITELY not the intention as I really do want this to be suitable for
absolutely anyone at all who's curious to know just at a simple level what's
going on inside the silicon in their iphones etc. This will therefore NOT
be a full description of cutting edge chips as it'd be impossible to describe
completely how such beasts work in much less than a few weeks? Remember, modern
processor chips with their tens of millions of transistors are now so
phenomenally complex that no single person in the world knows every part of
them. So this workshop would be a simple description of how the most fundamental
logic elements of such - (and, or & not gates) work & are made
& then very briefly & with plenty left to the imagination, how such
simple elements are continuously joined/cascaded together to make more &
more complex components that make up the complete item.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR>>I will be interested, if I've time
to come to it....<BR><FONT size=2 face=Arial>></FONT><BR>>please add your
workshop at<BR><FONT size=2 face=Arial>></FONT><BR><FONT size=2
face=Arial>></FONT><A
href="https://hacktionlab.org/hacktionlab/index.php/BarnCamp_2013_ideas_scratchpad">https://hacktionlab.org/hacktionlab/index.php/BarnCamp_2013_ideas_scratchpad</A><BR><FONT
size=2 face=Arial>></FONT><BR>>or let one of us know if you don't have a
wiki login and need us to do it.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ok I'll have a stab but still seem to be wiki
phobic ;-(</FONT><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>