Free Cortex M4 Seminars - free food, free discovery board

[bearmos]

Just got notice of some free seminars for the STM32F3 MCU's hosted by Nu Horizons - these are what's on the popular "discovery" boards. These seminars are free and have free food, a free discovery board, and more sales pitches than you can shake a stick at. . .

STM32F3 Discovery

Registration Site


In the past, some people found these useful, so I figured I'd pass this one along too.

Locations/Dates
Montrea l11/7/2012
Toronto 11/8/2012
Orange County, CA 11/13/2012
Santa Clara, CA 11/14/2012
San Diego, CA 11/15/2012
Indianapolis, IN 11/15/2012
Vancouver 11/28/2012
Dallas, TX 11/28/2012
Seattle, WA 11/29/2012
North Carolina 12/4/2012
Minneapolis, MN 12/5/2012
Orlando, FL 12/6/2012
Chicago, IL 12/11/2012
Boston, MA 12/11/2012
Milwaukee, WI 12/13/2012
Pittsburg, PA 12/13/2012

Event Details
This seminar will include technical detail on the STM32 F3 Cortex™-M4 core, system architecture, and advanced analog and digital peripherals featured in the STM32 F3 series.

Demonstrations will include how to start, develop and debug a project, develop and debug a project using the simple to use firmware libraries and low cost development tools and kits.


Seminar Agenda:

8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 12:00 Introduction to the STM32 F3 Series
Features of the Cortex™-M4 core
System architecture
Connectivity interfaces
Advanced digital peripherals
Advanced analog peripherals

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Served

1:00 - 2:30 Demonstration of STM32 F3:
Development and programming tools
Evaluation and development kits
Firmware libraries

[hak8or]

No love for New York! :(

How many people go to these things? Is it like a little room with 15 chairs, with desktops and dev kits set up for each individual, or is it like 100 or more people all sitting in folding chairs watching a presentation?

[bearmos]

I went to one hosted by Nu Horizons outside of Philli, mainly because my rep was trying to get some people at the last minute. There were 3 customers there (including me) and probably around 6 sales guys. We each got a dev kit and went through some tutorials on provided laptops - they also gave away a $3k SDK. They brought in some great food and had some really knowledgeable app engineers there (both from the company that was doing the presentation and Nu Horizons).

If you're really into face-to-face type of interactions, these can be nice. Usually they have someone with a decent technical background doing this type of presentation that's knowledgeable about the product line, so they've got a decent shot at fielding real questions.

[ian]

I have been to both types. uC presentations will attract 200 people from all over (movie industry, engineering, automotive, internet and tech, and others at the last but TI thing). Niche ones are like bearmos says, a couple people only.

[electronicsprototype]

i have been go to the montreal seminar and is good free food(and is very great food), free board, good presentation and free sample code