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VicPiMakers Meet & Greet (Hybrid)

Saturday, April 13, 2024
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM PDT

  • 9:30-10am Coffee & Conversation (BIG Classroom 175, first floor at Camosun InterUrban Campus)
  • 10am Presentations

Join us for our Meet and Greet, where we explain what we do, and why we do it. Visitors may have the opportunity to learn about cool technologies such as artificial intelligence on a Raspberry Pi, LAMP on the Orange Pi and automated sprinkler systems.

Parking at Interurban in lot P8 is free on weekends for Saanich parks and trail users.

Interurban map: https://camosun.ca/sites/default/files/2021-11/iu_map.pdf

https://camosun.ca/about/our-campuses/transportation-and-parking/campus-parking

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Sat. Oct. 28, 2023 – Forgotten Pill Warning (Hybrid)

George gets a scolding from Alexa for not opening his pill box on time.  Technologies include 

  • A dollar store pill box,
  • ESP8266 micro-controller
  • PHP server page to receive message from ESP8266
  • Cron job to notice late opening and to send a scolding email and SMS
  • IF This Then That (IFTTT) to signal Alexa
  • Amazon Alexa Echo Show to further admonish George to open the damn pill box.

George’s presentation .pdf is here

For the meet and greet, George explains how this device can be shipped without the recipients SSID and wifi password, using only 20 bytes of code on the micro controller.

9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation
10a Presentation

This is a Hybrid meeting (in-person and on Jitsi).

Small Boardroom @ Quality Foods, 27 Helmcken Rd #110 · View Royal

Join Us Online here:

https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vicpimakers

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Learn Python on a Pico

Saturday, July 8th 9:30 am til noon and Saturday July 15th 9:30am till noon.

At Quality Foods Eagle Creek Shopping Center in the upstains boardroom

Register here: https://forms.gle/py3BzTUxfyfPj67o8

You need to bring a laptop:

  • A windows laptop or 
  • Linux laptop or 
  • chromebook with linux enabled. 

We loan you

  • A Raspberry Pi Pico with LED and temperature sensor
  • A micro USB cable

You build a digital thermometer that can

  • Report the highest and lowest temperatures of the last 24 hours
  • Signal when a room is dangerously overheated

Here is a description of the class