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Deid will share his Scooter Speedometer project with us.
Event topics
Robotics Microcontrollers Arduino Electronics Education & Technology
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:
We will be having a discussion about Projects that we are working on, but haven’t shared with the group. These can be projects that are successful or ones that just didn’t work out and have been abandoned. We’ll enjoy hearing about other’s projects, and perhaps even offer to help.
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
George will share his old man savers. Consumer kitchen appliances are designed for one size fits all, not for my personal needs. My needs change as I age, and I need alerts for faults.
George’s presentation is here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/107pIcvgMJfG5TxZLBdD5MD1n3QWQPcR2-Dehy2xVzjI/edit?usp=sharing
His code .pdf file is here:
9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation
10a Presentation
QCollege has welcomed us back to meet in-person. We thank them for their support.
We will be holding a Hybrid meeting (in-person & Jitsi).
9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation (virtual)
10a Presentation
Mark will share his work in stripping tracking info on Firefox on a Pi, and how to load it onto your Firefox.
QCollege has welcomed us back to meet in-person. We thank them for their support.
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave · Victoria, BC
We will be holding a Hybrid meeting (in-person & Jitsi).
https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vicpimakers
Mark’s presentation .pdf is here.
Share the projects you have been working on over the summer. This will be a hybrid show and tell using Jitsi, and in person.
QCollege has welcomed us back to meet in-person. We thank them for their support
Suite 303 771 Vernon Ave · Victoria, BC
9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation (virtual)
10a Presentation
https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vicpimakers
We will be holding a Hybrid meeting (in-person & Jitsi).
Come share your recent projects with the group, online or in person.
9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation (virtual)
10a Presentation
QCollege has welcomed us back to meet in-person. We thank them for their support.
George shared some pico links
https://learn.adafruit.com/welcome-to-circuitpython
https://learn.adafruit.com/getting-started-with-raspberry-pi-pico-circuitpython/blinky-and-a-button
https://learn.adafruit.com/getting-started-with-raspberry-pi-pico-circuitpython/neopixel-leds
Virtual…
I decided to build my own Raspberry Pi music player using Python, as the available players didn’t really do what I wanted. This is Python at the beginner level, and the saga of making the player. Mostly it is about the little things in Python that caused me to stumble for a while. The music player is functional, the interface isn’t elegant, and I learned a few things about Python programming. – Don
9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation (virtual)
10a Presentation
Here are Don’s presentation .pdf and(change to .py) .txt file.
Intro to Pi & Others Discussion. We will review the course materials, and discuss improvements, and getting the word out.
Intro to Pi & Others is a four part series with each session building on the previous sessions, where Pi basics of software and hardware will be explored.
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM PDT
9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation
10a Presentation
Share the projects you have been working on over the summer. This will be a virtual show and tell using Jitsi.
https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vicpimakers
Sadly, we are still dealing with Covid-19, and the meetings will be virtual in the month of September.
Deid’s Clock presentation is here.
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM PST
Don will share with us some cool hardware additions to automate your Pi.
9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation
10a Presentations
Presentation material is here.
Jitsi Virtual Meeting
https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vicpimakers
Please contact markg@vicpimakers.ca if you are having trouble connecting to the meeting server.
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM PST
9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation
10a Presentations
Jitsi Virtual Meeting
https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vicpimakers
Please contact markg@vicpimakers.ca if you are having trouble connecting to the meeting server.
Jim will review the answers to the Challenge (1 and more). Did you get the answers right? Find out on Saturday. Find Jim’s Challenges here.
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM PST
Jitsi Virtual Meeting
https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vicpimakers
Please contact markg@vicpimakers.ca if you are having trouble connecting to the meeting server.
Now that you have the world’s most useful project, it is time to package it up so the world doesn’t break it. We’ll discuss using different packaging containers to protect your project.
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM PST
Jitsi Virtual Meeting
https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vicpimakers
Please contact markg@vicpimakers.ca if you are having trouble connecting to the meeting server.
George’s packaging presentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivUou7D7rNFYmZPl1GAi4F6A5dP52ewsqoxxl0eUt5c
Deid’s packaging presentation: http://drsol.com/~deid/pi/packaging/
Electronics doesn’t have to be all tiny surface mount components that you can barely see. George will tell us about how to do electronics using bolt cutters this month.
This will be a virtual Jitsi meeting.
https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vicpimakers
9:30-10a Cocktails & Conversation
10a Presentations
Jitsi connection:
https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/vicpimakers
See the Projects presented here.
Due to the current situation @ March 14, 2020, in-person meetings have been suspended until further notice. Please do join us on Slack or at our online learning sessions using Jitsi. Write to hello at vicpimakers.ca for invitations and information.
Q-CollegeSuite 303 771 Vernon Ave · Victoria, BC – 10am
It is fun to repurpose battery powered consumer products. For instance, here is a Leak Detector made from a window alarm. The article includes the window alarm schematic.
And George made a bike theft deterrent alarm with remote radio alerting from the same window alarm.
In normal operation, the window alarm senses separation from its external magnet via its internal reed switch and feeds its piezo disk with an oscillation. The window alarm runs on 3 button cells and draws no current when the reed switch is open. There is also a slide switch to enable/disable the alarm.
Here is a photo of the circuit board: The OUT signal from the 8 pin oscillator chip is a 10V DC wave, pumped up by the inductor from 5 volts. A voltage divider can be added to lower this chip output signal to less than 5v to feed another device.
Or the piezo can be used as a microphone, providing about 100mv into a very high impedance input
In May we can show what we achieved.
Deid successfully connected a 50 light string of addressable LEDs to an ESP8266 to cause the lights to light and change colour and move and …
Deid created the following patterns:
The ESP8266 C code to do this can be found here. Deid makes no representation that the existing code is good. In fact he knows some of it is not. Feel free to fix.
The challenge is to add more patterns and the code to implement the patterns. If you send Deid the code he will load and try the code. Unless someone comes up with a better way for folks to test remotely.
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Learn how to measure the electrical world using your embedded device. In this talk, we’ll answer the following, and show you lots of cool stuff:
Camosun College Interurban Campus
4461 Interurban Road · Victoria, BC
Tech Bldg, Tech 177
Victoria PiMakers and Others are on a summer break. We will meet again on Saturday, September 14th, at Q-College. The presentation(s) will be “My Summer Show & Tell.”
In the meantime…
Linux Sigs!
First Saturday of the Month
July 6th and August 3rd
9:30 am – 12:00pm
Quality Foods, Upstairs Large Boardroom
Eagle Ridge Plaza
27 Helmcken Rd
And The Net Sig!
First meeting
Thursday, July 25, 2019 and the next meeting is August 22.
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Q-College
Suite 303 771 Vernon Ave · Victoria, BC
A Special Interest Group focused on computer networking. Building networks for Today and Tomorrow!
Half of the meeting is education or presentation. Half is sharing and problem-solving.
Bring a laptop with Wireshark installed: We’ll be covering the basics of packet capture, and seeing what is actually on your network.
Jekyll sites can be connected to cloud-based CMS software such as CloudCannon, Forestry, Netlify or Siteleaf, and Github enabling content editors to modify site content without having to know how to code.
Here is the link to Gordon’s fine presentation.
Saturday, May 25, 2019
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Camosun College Interurban Campus
Tech Bldg, Tec 177
4461 Interurban Road · Victoria, BC
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Q-College
Suite 303 771 Vernon Ave · Victoria, BC
Intro to Pi & Others is a 4 part series of short monthly sessions to help get you up and running with your Pi or Other (embedded device). It is a structured hour-long session where you can ask questions.
Please bring in your Pi, HDMI cable, and power supply. All other equipment will be provided.
This is a four-part series with each session building on the previous sessions, where Pi basics of software and hardware will be explored. Read More
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Q-College
Suite 303 771 Vernon Ave · Victoria, BC
Intro to Pi & Others is a 4 part series of short monthly sessions to help get you up and running with your Pi or Other (embedded device). It is a structured hour-long session where you can ask questions.
Please bring in your Pi, HDMI cable, and power supply. All other equipment will be provided.
This is a four-part series with each session building on the previous sessions, where Pi basics of software and hardware will be explored. Read More
10:00am
Q-College,
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
How’s your Project coming along. How can we help? Spring has sprung, we’d like to hear how the projects are doing?
Come share your favourite software or project with the group.
