Photo collection one. Taken by Brian Grawburg of Imagination Station, Wilson, North Carolina.
Photo collection two. Taken by Pete Soper.
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February Meeting
The monthly meeting of the Triangle Embedded Interest Group “TriEmbed” will be this Monday starting at 7pm in room 1007 of NCSU Engineering Building One, 911 Partners Way, Raleigh.
This month will be completely “open mike” for show and tell (the room has excellent AV equipment). Bring your projects, lightning talks, questions and project challenges to share.
For January 11th: Arduino <==> Raspberry Pi Communication
Paul MacDougal will talk about arranging communication between these two popular single board computers, and Alex Davis will have a Raspbery Pi with Retropie and MAME to show. This will be followed by the usual show and tell and chat session. Bring your projects, ideas and questions.
We’ll be meeting in EBI room 1007, next door to the one for previous months (and the same as the one TAR is meeting in). This room will be stable through April.
Details and maps here.
Also, we took advantage of TI’s special offer of MSP432 Launchpads. They’ll be available at the meeting for $5. (They will also be at the Splatspace open meeting tomorrow evening.)
Arduino Project Demos and Idea Session @ Splatspace Saturday
Terry King and Mary Alice Osborne of Yourduino in Huntsville Alabama a few days ago, standing near a Saturn V F-1 engine nozzle.
Terry and Mary Alice will be at Splat Space (Durham Makerspace) Saturday morning, November 21st from 10am to noon to demonstrate Arduino projects and help attendees explore ideas. Kids are welcome (middle schoolers and older will get the most out of it) but there will be plenty of interest to attendees of all ages.
Soft drinks will be available at the ‘space. Some Yourduino inventory will be available for purchase (but this is not a sales pitch event).
There is a Meetup Page that has location and other details. The best way into Splat Space is via the gate on Corporation Street between Mangum and Roxboro.
More details about Yourduino on their info page.
Next Meeting Monday, November 9th @ 7pm (NCSU EBI rm1005)
This month’s meeting will be a general show and tell and chat session with the occasional very short presentation as folks throw their gadgets under the A/V microscope or put something else into the projector.
Location, maps, and other details on the meeting page here.
Next Meeting October 12th, 7pm @ NCSU
Fluid modeling of resistance, current, potential, capacitance, and inductance by Ryan Shuster.
The last part of the meeting will be the usual open forum. Bring your show and tell items, problems needing help, etc.
THERE WILL BE AN ASSORTMENT OF DONATED DEV KITS TONIGHT AND ATTENDEES WILL DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH THEM AT THE MEETING.
Location, maps, and other details on the meeting page here.
NC Regional Internet of Things conference TONIGHT
Tonight starting at 6pm is the NC’s Regional Internet of Things free conference (except for parking) at the Raleigh Convention Center. See the first link for the schedule. Of particular note is that you can see Qualia Networks Chariot mesh board in action.
June 8th Meeting: Lessons learned in an Embedded Systems Course
(Note room change to building 3 (extending through August). Details and maps)
The June talk will be about what Craig Cook learned between January and May 2015 working on a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) – “Embedded Systems – Shape the world” provided via edX by lecturers from the University of Austin, Texas, Jonathan Valvano and Ramesh Yerraballi.
Craig Cook has been working in IT since the mid 90’s. Most of his career has been working as a Systems Administrator where computers have plenty of Memory and CPU power and they run an operating system.
Recently Craig became interested in small computers like the Raspberry Pi and Arduino. He wanted to learn more about them. After reading a post to Triembed about an upcoming edX course on embedded systems he decided it was time to jump in.
May 11th Meeting 7PM @ NCSU
This meeting will have a handful of short presentations, the usual show and tell, face to face networking and hands-on project help. Maps and additional details here. Planned:
- Switch de-bouncing (Paul MacDougal)
- Gathering ideas for an “Embedded Software Engineering 101” course (Christopher Svec)
- Trivially solving arbitrary resistor networks with multiple voltage sources using Thévenin’s Theorem (Pete Soper)
- <your very short presentation goes here>
(Pete and Christopher might possibly be on the road or late getting back into town, so their talks are tentative)
Upcoming monthly TriEmbed meetings at NCSU
- The May 11th meeting is open to some short presentations, ideally relevant to the recent “learning curve” list discussion. So far there already planned is a short switch-debouncing tutorial by Paul MacDougal and (if his flight isn’t delayed) a very short how-to by Pete Soper for using Thévenin’s Theorem to solve nasty resistor network/mixed voltage source problems like the one in the XKCD Circuit. Also, if he’s not on the road with his job Christopher Svec will give a short talk and open the floor for ideas for the “Embedded Engineering 101” course he’s mentioned on the email list.
- The meeting room assignment request is in for June/July/August, and it was early enough that we might hopefully keep the same room. With luck we’ll get the assignments in time to announce them at the May meeting.
- June 8th will be focused on Craig Cook’s experience with an edX embedded systems course offered by U of Texas/Austin.
- July 13th will feature Adam Haile and Dan Ternes of Maniacal Labs providing an update about their AllPixel project along with whatever else they’d like to discuss (perhaps some discussion with their co-conspirators about lighting up windows in downtown Raleigh?)
If you’re interested in giving a (short) talk in May or a talk at another TriEmbed meeting the best starting point is the TriEmbed email list (or, if it would be more comfortable, a message to Paul MacDougal and Pete Soper). You would ideally include a short synopsis and bio and conservative estimate of the amount of time you need.