Saturday, August 7, 2021
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
We'll be meeting virtually this month.

https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vlug

For 2021: First Saturday of the month

Net Sig

Thur, 27 Aug 2021
NetSIG: BeerSIG: Social Networking in Person - at Browns Socialhouse in Uptown
Be sure to BRING a THIRST, as this includes hands on sessions.
6:30pm - 8:00 pm
QCollege has graciously offered to use their campus for our fall meetings. We thank them for their support.

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RPI sales soar! Covid 19.

In Tech Republic, April 17, 2020... "From ending battles over the only PC in the house to supporting 3D printing and ventilator projects, the tiny single-board computer is suddenly in great demand."

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/raspberry-pi-why-sales-have-rocketed-in-the-middle-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak/

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What you might have missed.

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Raspberry Pi News

Humane mouse trap | The MagPi #108 July 30, 2021
Safely catching mice is a better way of fixing a problem, and using Raspberry Pi means it needs less supervision. In the new issue of The MagPi magazine, Rob Zwetsloot takes a look with the maker, Andrew Taylor. With some IoT projects, it’s the little things that help. For example, take Andrew Taylor, who did… […]
Ashley Whittaker
Educating young people in AI, machine learning, and data science: new seminar series July 29, 2021
A recent Forbes article reported that over the last four years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in many business sectors has grown by 270%. AI has a history dating back to Alan Turing’s work in the 1940s, and we can define AI as the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to… […]
Sue Sentance
Raspberry Pi makes your retro analogue camera digital July 28, 2021
Befinitiv has built a custom film cartridge, using a Raspberry Pi Zero W, that turned their gorgeous old analogue camera into a digital one, and enabled it to take digital photos, videos, and even wirelessly live stream to the Internet. The analogue camera they used in the build was considered state-of-the-art around fifty years ago,… […]
Ashley Whittaker
Celebrating the community: Laura July 27, 2021
We love seeing all the wonderful things people are doing in the community — that’s why we’re sharing our new series of short films documenting some of the incredible journeys of community members in all corners of the globe! Today we bring you the third wonderful film in this series of community stories. For the… […]
Katie Gouskos
Archimedes the AI robot | HackSpace #45 July 26, 2021
When we saw Alex Glow’s name in the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, we just had to share their project. HackSpace #45 celebrates the best Raspberry Pi builds of all time, and we remembered spotting Alex’s wearable robotic owl familiar back in the day. For those of you yet to have had the pleasure, meet… […]
Ashley Whittaker

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