ESC blasts off next week at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose.

This year, ESC features the Build your own Embedded System course, where a $595 registration gets you a Rev C Beagle Board (with working USB host mode!) and two days of classes about developing applications with the board.  I have heard a lot of buzz about this (even on local radio here in SF!) so I expect the classes with be jam packed.  If you haven’t heard of it before, the Beagle Board is a 3″ square 600Mhz ARM Cortex A8-based computer with a lot of fancy features such as DVI-D output.

Online registration closes today, so hurry up and register if you plan on attending!

You can keep up to date with the conference by following @esc_events on twitter.

Update: Screaming Circuits has a 50% discount code on their website!  Thank you, Screaming Circuits!