In a recent edition of the Embedded FM podcast, you can listen to ideas for projects from a fire hose. This is a concentrated and amplified version of the sort of ideas regularly floated, discussed, and demonstrated every second Monday night in one of the NCSU engineering buildings during monthly Triangle Embedded Interest Group (TriEmbed) meetings.
If you’re a student hoping to find a killer internship or permanent job doing embedded development this summer, check out TriEmbed. Details are under the Meetings dropdown menu above.
We look forward to seeing and getting to know you there.
Starting with this month’s meeting and at each one in the future there will be a drawing in which lucky attendees can choose items from a collection such as those shown below.
Folks are invited to donate interesting items they no longer need to add to the collection for future drawings.
Next Wednesday and Thursday (each day self-contained) October 10 and 11, there will be a Design to Part (D2P) trade show. Free admission with registration at the door. 9:30am to 3pm each day. Raleigh Convention Center, 500 South Salisbury St, Raleigh, NC 27601. Details here on the Internet .
Thanks to Dan Stipe for the tip about this upcoming event.
A whole bunch of generous folks kicked in for the triembed.org domain renewal this year and we won’t have to deal with this for a long, long time. THANK YOU!
2018 has a good chance of seeing embedded development accelerate sharply. Best wishes to the interest group and the wider community during this new year.
On October 20th Nordic Semiconductor is conducting an all-day seminar with members of their R&D organization on Friday, October 20th. They’ll cover the nRF52 chip series, Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth Mesh, and “802.15.4 and Thread: Mesh technologies for IoT applications”. They say somewhere that attendees will receive an nRF52 dev board. Registration here.
Monday, November 1st at Duke University the IEEE/Robotics (aka TAR) meeting will offer a presentation about Duke’s humanoid robot project. (This is not the same as the IEEE project being done at the Forge Initiative ) Again: this meeting is not at NC State for November. Pizza and beverages at 6:20 pm, the program starts at 7 pm. Location, parking, and other details and painless “register now” button to gauge the pizza order are here. Program:
Humans and Autonomy Lab – Humans’ Interaction with Autonomous Systems, by Dr. Michael Clamann
Explainable AI, by Dr. Alexander Stimpson
Experiment on Humans’ Trust in Risk-Aware Autonomy, by Dr. Lixiao Huang
November 8th at the McKimmon Center at NC State will be PCB Carolina, “North Carolina’s Premier Electronics Trade Show”. They offer outstanding food, a range of technical presentations and many vendor and organization booths to do with PCB design and production, and electronic assembly as well as related vendor’s wares. Details here.
Problem of the Month
Paul presented his “sorting a mixture of colored marbles” mechanical+electronics problem and gathered ideas submitted by the attendees
Details of problem-solving sessions are available here.
LTSpice talk. The materials are on Carl’s GitHub repository here and he’ll update it as the project matures.
Show-and-tell
Glenn Smith showed a charging base he build for his Ham Radio. There was a 3D printed (ABS plastic) base with a LiPo charger board inside. It plugs into his car dash (not via cigarette lighter port, but a more robust connection).
Paul MacDougal showed his mushroom growing box. A plastic tub with a 12V fan, a CO2 sensor, and a DHT22 temperature/humidity sensor. An Arduino monitors the CO2 and turns on the fan at 800 ppm CO2 and turns off the fan at 750 ppm CO2.
Paul MacDougal showed his pushup counter based on the horizontal ultrasound sensor technique suggested in the September meeting. It worked well “in the lab”, which has hardwood floors, but not so well on carpet. He will continue to develop this project.
