Microcontroller meetup: Thursday, May 16

On May 16, there will be a meeting to discuss items of interest, including (but not limited to) Embedded Computers, PIC chips, Basic Stamps and Arduinos, at the Falls Township Municipal building, Room 205, on Business Rt. 1 about 1/2 mile north, after the Oxford Valley Mall, in Fairless Hills. The address is 188 Lincoln Highway, Fairless Hills, Pa, 19030, across the street from the Salvation Army thrift store. The meeting will start at 7:30 PM. If you need directions someone will be monitoring 147.300 (PL 131.8) or 147.090 (PL 131.8).

It's finally coming!

Well, I finally have a Raspberry PI on its way. After the usual play time, I intend to use it as a dedicated weather server to replace the Windows XP box I'm using now. Back to the books to refresh my memory for Linux! I really hope to get to to Design Notes for the next meeting.

Ken

Thanks for having me

Thanks to all who let me know about the Lower Bucks Hackerspace meeting. Seeing the Raspberry Pi was interesting. Looking forward to the next meeting at the electronics shop in Upper Southampton.

Mark

Forum and Me

I think the word has to be put out there to get more activity. (As if you didn't know that already)
I belong to a Nixie tube site where processors became a way of life with the occasional Strowger phone stepper relay clock or exceedingly populated multi-board non-processor decade counting clock..and so on..... The biggest challange was the passionate disagreements over which type of processor...PIC v everything else!

I'm not up on Arduino or the multitude of available attachments. Shields?

More later,

73 de Ken
K3QV

Arduino links

Forums:

I figured this would be a good place to post some links about Arduino, including some cool stuff you can do with it.

Main site: http://arduino.cc/
Tutorials: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage
Project Ideas: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Projects/Ideas
Arduino-controlled helicoptor: http://aeroquad.com/content.php (I think this is totally cool).

Hackerspace Launch

There are a lot of things that need to be done to get a hackerspace group off the ground. This project will guide us along that road.

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