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 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.
March 24, 2018 – Jupyter & Python
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/
Jan 13, 2018 – Python Webserver
10:30am
Personal IPv6/IPv4 Python Webserver
Why have a personal webserver? Easy distribution of files.
Why support IPv6 and IPv4? Not only is it cool, but it is very easy to do. IPv6 is the future of the internet, setting up a little personal webserver that supports both protocols will help you learn about the future.
Q-College
Suite 303, 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
Nov 25, 2017 – PHP and SQLlite
9:30am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC (map)
PHP the language of the Web (well one of the languages) can connect to SQLlite on the backend, storing your dynamic content in a database. In this presentation, you will see how to make that connection, and directly populate data (into your database) from the Web.
Oct 28, 2017 – Open Source Routers with OpenWrt/LEDE
9:30 AM
Q-College, Suite 303 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC (map)
You have seen Craig carrying around routers, but he has never shown you what is inside. In this session, Craig will show you the Open Source alternative to Router Software, which supports over 1000 router models. There is a good chance your router is supported by OpenWrt/LEDE.
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start
https://lede-project.org/toh/start
OpenWrt/LEDE also have excellent IPv6 support. What could be better to prepare you for the future of the internet.
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Oct 8, 2017 – Django – The ‘D’ is silent
8 October, Saturday, 9:30am
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC (map)
A high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design, Django takes care of much of the hassle of Web development so you can focus on writing Web apps without needing to reinvent the wheel.
Free, full-featured, and open source, Django is well documented, offering an attractive avenue for Python newbies and experienced Web developers to improve and apply Python programming skills.
This introductory presentation will show you how to set up a Django development environment as we explore the many ways you can set about learning Django.
Sep 9, 2017 – ESP8266 and 433 Mhz
Saturday, 9:30 AM
Q-College
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC (map)
The Internet of things now can control things wirelessly. Control of things using inexpensive radio frequency switches (operating on 433 Mhz) and an ESP8266 micro controller.
wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266
Jun24, 2017 – PHP – the language of the web server
Saturday, 9:30 AM
PHP is a script language used on the backend of many webservers. Learn the basics of PHP, and how you can use it to make your Pi Project web accessible.