Eric Weddington

Eric Weddington

Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States
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About

Unique combination of technical and people background, with a variety of roles and…

Articles by Eric

  • OSPO Maturity Model Problems and a Solution

    The Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Maturity Model (found here) is a good start, but it has two fundamental problems:…

  • The dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy

    Finagle's Law is not always appreciated in the software engineering community. It's far easier to put together a system…

  • Open Source Junkies

    Just like junkies, Open Source developers want their fix. They forget that the risk is always in reuse.

  • Motivation and Success in Open Source

    Success is an elusive thing. Even the words Success and Failure are charged with judgement.

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  • Open Source is a Double-Edged Sword

    It's easy to get the impression that Open Source is all about Linux, back-end infrastructure, or web services. That…

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  • 3D Printer Evolution & Disruption in the Open Source Final Frontier

    The RepRap project describes itself as "humanity's first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine"…

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  • Chicken Little in Open Source

    The Sky is Falling. Open Source is fatally flawed! Well, at least according this article, which proclaimed even in the…

  • The Devil in Open Source Details

    For those in the Open Source community, there is the latest feel-good article making the rounds, "GitHub sees support…

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Experience

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    Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States

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    Golden, Colorado, United States

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    Westminster, Colorado, United States

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    Westminster, Colorado, United States

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    Westminster, Colorado, United States

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    Westminster, Colorado, United States

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    Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

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    Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

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    Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

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    Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

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    Golden, Colorado, United States

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    Golden, Colorado, United States

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    Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Publications

Patents

Projects

  • AVR-LLVM

    AVR port of the open source LLVM compiler.

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  • AVaRICE

    - Present

    AVaRICE is an open source project that connects AVR GDB to the Atmel JTAG In-Circuit Emulator (ICE).

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  • avrdude

    - Present

    avrdude is an open source project for downloading and uploading software to AVR microcontrollers

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  • AVR-LibC

    - Present

    The C runtime library for the AVR family of microcontrollers. For use with GNU toolset (Binutils, GCC, GDB, etc.)

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  • WinAVR

    - Present

    WinAVR (tm) is a suite of executable, open source software development tools for the Atmel AVR series of RISC microprocessors hosted on the Windows platform. Includes the GNU GCC compiler for C and C++.
    Project creator and maintainer. Popular open source development toolchain package for the AVR on Windows. Used as toolchain in Arduino software on Windows.

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Honors & Awards

  • Maker Faire Editor's Choice Award

    Maker Faire New York 2013 - Marc de Vinck

    Editor's Choice award for showing what Atmel makes: ICs, with raw silicon, wafers, and a fab bunny suit!

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