October 6, 2018 Adafruit’s Circuit Playground Express
Saturday, October 6, 2018
10:00am
Q-College, Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
A shallow Dive into Adafruit’s Circuit Playground Express
The Circuit Playground Express is a small, cheap($32) dev board from Adafruit Industries designed to introduce electronics and programming to the novice. It’s built around an ATSAMD21 ARM Cortex MO processor and is programmable with either circuitpython or Microsoft’s ‘Makecode’ block programming interface. The board also houses a variety of sensors (motion, temperature, light, touch), buttons, a slide switch and IR transmit/receive capability. In this presentation I’ll demo some of the easier projects that I’ve mastered and maybe include something using the Adafruit Crickit, and add-on board for the CPX designed for simple robotics. See the reading list here.
Hosted by Paul and Craig Miller
September 22, 2018 – ESP8266 Web Controlled LEDs (part 1)
10:00am
Camosun College
Bldg: Technology Bldg, Room: Tech 259 – 4461 Interurban Rd, Victoria, BC (parking at lot 8 for park users) presentation pdf
In this session, we’ll cover programming Neopixel LEDs driven by the ESP8266 using a Web Interface. We’ll cover the hardware interface to the LEDs as well as the web interface (running on the ESP8266 utilizing the PL9823).
In Part2, we’ll harden the installation by adding TLS/SSL and IPv6 support via NodeRed running on a Pi
September 8, 2018 – What I did over the summer
10:00am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
Welcome back from Summer. At this meeting we’ll be doing a show and tell, talking about what Pi (and others) projects we worked on over the summer break
Summer Break 2018
Victoria PiMakers and Others are on a summer break. We will meet again on Saturday, September 8th, at Q-College. The presentation(s) will be “My Summer Show & Tell.”
In the meantime, do attend the Linux Sigs! Saturday, July 7, 2018 and Saturday, August 18, 10:00am to 12:00pm at Island Savings, 3195 Douglas St.
June 23, 2018 – Interfacing Sensors and Devices to Microcontrollers
10:00am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
Jim’s presentation focuses on interfacing sensors and devices ( modules) to microcontrollers followed by actual examples. Two or more examples will be discussed using I/O from pulse inputs, IR transmitters/receivers, accelerometers, load cells, Bluetooth SPP and motion controllers.
See the presentation document here.
June 9, 2018 – Adventures with Google VoiceKit
10:00am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
Along with everything the Google Assistant already does, you can add your own question and answer pairs. All in a handy little cardboard cube, powered by a Raspberry Pi.
May 26, 2018 – R part 2
10:00am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
Two views of Statistical Programming. The second in the series. R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics that is supported by the R Foundation
May 12, 2018 – Node-red and MicroPython esp8266 sensing
10:00am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
A Double-header:
Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click.
Deid will connect his ESP8266 to nodeRed and show us how easy it is to put sensors online.
AND Mike will present MicroPython on the ESP8266. The presentation will share the Micropython breakthru that allows a $4 WiFi-enabled microprocessor to run a good portion of the Python standard library. It’s really quite amazing to have the Python REPL and filesystem built right into a microcontroller.
April 28, 2018 – Intro 2 to Statistical Computing using R
10:00am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
Two views of Statistical Programming. The second in the series. R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics that is supported by the R Foundation