And a third for the hat trick... Ah, gotta love that 'new building smell' :) Nice to see y'all last night, the Arduino talk was very informative and I now have a whole new avenue for my OCD to explore, so thanks for that :)
Sorry I ran out early and missed the beers later, I was trying to capitalize on my trip to Burl to get in some fiddling at Radio Bean, and the session started at 9:00PM. Rubin On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 11:16 -0400, Sam Hooker wrote: > 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 -- Rubin Bennett rbTechnologies, LLC 80 Carleton Boulevard East Montpelier, VT 05651 (802)223-4448 http://thatitguy.com "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
