I second Nick's thanks and props, and note (for the record) that I did nothing last night other than eagerly receive information, be entertained, and mooch pizza and beer off our hosts. (I think you were sitting next to Jim. ;-))
Cheers, -sth sam hooker|[email protected]|http://www.noiseplant.com Are you satisfied? ([y]/n): ----- "Nick Floersch" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you to Logic Supply for their generosity and generally-awesome > facilities! > > Thanks to our presenters Brian, Matthew, and Anthony! There was a > whole lot of knowledge and understanding flowing around that table and > it was a great experience to evesdrop on it all despite not being the > most well informed electronics hobbyist (yet!). > > Brian certainly had some kits and gear that were tempting to buy, and > the free breadboard was really cool. I know I'll be perusing his site > quite a bit over the next few days (wulfden.org) > > It struck me that the Lilypad Arduino board, which can "Go through the > wash" might be an interesting Arduino board for the ROV project ... if > it can handle being underwater, it makes me wonder if it would be more > resistant to moisture when used inside the ROV? I'm not saying to run > the board submersed... but that if it got wet, it wouldn't be a huge > deal to dry it off and keep going? Just a thought. > > I talked with someone (Sam maybe? ... who was sitting beside me > again?) about his basic example of programming an Arduino board from > his Mac and making an LED flash... it seemed to me that we could do > another Arduino meeting with some presenters showing, on a projector, > them writing out some basic code and commands to do different things: > and Arduino programming tutorial type of night. Start with something > super-simple like making the LED blink for those who have no > experience, and move on to controlling motors and servos and sensors. > Go over the basic circuits being built so folks who don't remember > electronics 101 can get refreshed without feeling like they are asking > stupid questions, and then show the code that interfaces with the chip > and the circuit... etc. Just a thought to anyone interested in leading > such a presentation... I think there were a wide variety of skill > levels with electronics hobby work present last night... you have > folks like Flint who used to work with Charles Babbage and can tell > you why the Babbage mafia sucked, and then folks like maybe Sam and > Josh who know enough to fool around but haven't built a major Arduino > project yet, and folks like Me who used to know what I was doing, way > back in University but consider handling a soldering iron a yearly > event, and probably folks with little or no experience at all, but who > are curious. And it seems also that most of the people there have a > lot of software programming background, so seeing the hardware mixed > with the code would be interesting...? > > Anyway. It was one of the coolest meetings I've been to for VAGUE and > am super-glad that the idea was suggested and followed through on. > > > Thanks again! > > Live Long and Prosper! > > -Nick
