embedded systems to learn and create
10:00am
Camosun College
Bldg: Technology Bldg, Room: Tech 259 – 4461 Interurban Rd, Victoria, BC (parking at lot 8 for park users)
In this session, we’ll cover programming Neopixel LEDs driven by the PL9823 using a Web Interface. We’ll cover the hardware interface to the LEDs as well as the web interface (running on the PL9823).
In Part2, we’ll harden the installation by adding TLS/SSL and IPv6 support via NodeRed running on a Pi
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
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.
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.
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.
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
10:00am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
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.
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
10:00am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
One of the many cool things you can do with your Raspberry Pi is to add a $30 DVT-T (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T) USB dongle and install some software to turn your Pi into a live flight data feeder for Flightradar24 (https://flightradar24.com/), FlightAware (https://flightaware.com/), and Plane Finder (https://planefinder.net/).
10:00am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.
With the success of data science and big data analytics in the last decade, Python has emerged as a major language for data analytics. In 2014, Project Jupyter started as interactive, browser-based platform for data analysis and visualization in Python. Today, Jupyter is a widely adopted framework in industry and academia and has spawned many further applications. I will introduce the Jupyter Universe and discuss Jupyter’s advantages and its shortcomings. Together we will walk through a few of its various capabilities and extensions with Jupyter notebooks available at https://github.com/chritter/Talks/tree/master/VicPiMakers.
Finally I will discuss and demonstrate the rising star of the Jupyter project, Jupyter Lab.
Also, see notes here: http://vicpimakers.ca/tutorials/python-tutorial/the-jupyter-notebook/