Atmel is wanting DMS to help host a local stop of the Atmel Tech on Tour this summer. We are discussing a date of August 17th.
The Atmel Tech on Tour is a rolling training exhibit. Currently they are highlighting their Internet of Things (IoT) solution.
I think it would be great face to face time between our makers and Atmel.
http://www.atmel.com/microsite/tech_tour/
Sounds like a great idea! But we should avoid telling them how much we prefer their competitors product, since that isn’t polite!
Cool!
Could they setup out back instead of inside, and would we need landlord permission for them to do that?
I dunno about you, but I much prefer AVR microcontrollers to all other brands. As far as I can tell, they’re the only 8-bit micro producer that’s properly embraced GCC. I am very happy to not need a multi-gigabyte IDE to program a device with less than 1KiB of storage space (looking at you, code composter).
Before everybody knew them from Arduino, they had some of the best/simplest in-app debugging with breakpoints in an 8-bit platform and good support for C.
The event has been scheduled and will happen August 17th from 9:00am to 3:00 pm. With 2-3 getting started training sessions. We are parking the trailer out front of Tanners so as not to obliterate DMS parking with a slide out semi trailer.
They will be demoing their wireless and encryption devices. Possibly giving out 328P based dev boards.
Atmel has published the schedule for their visit to DMS for Tech On Tour.
Tech On Tour Schedule August 17th 9am-3pm
Sign up to attend a free session and get some free Atmel hardware and software!
Kit Giveaway
As part of your training, you will be able to walk away with:
• USB Flash Drive preloaded with datasheet, Getting Started App Notes and Atmel Studio 6
And One of the Following Kits:
• Atmel megaAVR168PB Xplained Mini
• Atmel | SMART SAM D10 Xplained Mini Evaluation Kit
Looks interesting. It would be nice if something were available after hours.
Ummm. I just signed up for the Tanner’s event and got a thank you for signing up for the 8/20 event in Rockwall. 
Maybe it’s full?
Joe
Yes I know…My phone number is there…
It’s not full but I sent them an email about it. Probably a coding error that send out the wrong auto-responder. 
I just signed up and got the correct location.
I’m signed up. See ya’ll there.
Let’s show Atmel a good turnout, and grab all their goodies in the process.
Reminder Atmel Tech on Tour is Monday @ 9 am!
Please come out and support our joint event with Atmel, Tanners Electronics and DMS.
Do they honor walk-ons? I do not know whether I can be there and do not want to hog a seat. I may try to register Monday morning.
I’m sure they don’t mind you coming at anytime between 9am and 3 pm.
Please register if you want a free kit - http://techontour.atmel.com/Aug17_Carrollton
They have only 30 of each board set.
I do wish I could be there. It would be nice to get the kit, too.
There were about 16 attendees in the morning session. About 1/2 were Dallas Makerspace members, and at least two found the event thru the Dallas Makerspace Meetups page.
