On thursday I went to a hands-on workshop held by taskit here in Berlin to learn more about the Panel-Card which is developed and sold by taskit. The Panel-Card is an embedded system that is a bit bigger than a 3,5" LCD containing a complete embedded Linux system with 3,5" TFT display, optional ethernet and touch panel. It was the first workshop held by taskit. At the begining every participant got a virtual machine containing a ready-to-use Linux with devloper tools and examples. In addition everyone got an evaluation kit of the Panel-Card equiped with a touch panel and ethernet. After we spend some time to make the virtual machine run on every notebook, we were able to implement our first example application. It was a typical embedded "Hello World" by letting some LEDs blink. This application was implemented as a Linux application with memory mapping and direct access to the IO registers of the Atmel ARM chip. The IDE was based on eclipse which I'm using for my Java development since years. So I felt very
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