Hi! My name is Deid Reimer and I have taken on the task of ensuring that we have presentations, demonstrations, or something else of interest as the focus of our biweekly Saturday Victoria PiMakers And Others Meetups.

Send me your ideas and suggestions as to:

• What topics you are interested in seeing covered at our meetings?
• A topic or project you could present or showcase at a meeting.

We’d also like to know:

• How are you using your Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or Others?

Please don’t worry if you have an idea for a topic or a project you can present but don’t know how to structure your talk, or are just shy about speaking in public. I can help with this: send me your idea and we’ll work to make it happen.

Presentations should be about an hour long, leaving up to an hour for questions and answers, directed help, and general discussion.

Some possible future topics could include:

• More on GPIO and sensors
• More on command line Linux
• Projects you or others have completed or are still in progress
• Programming (could be a series of tutorials) in:
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS
  • C+
  • Scratch
  • Sonica
• Using the Pi (And Others) as a:
  • Media centre
  • DNS server, or a
  • Web server
• Backing up your SD cards and devices
• And all the other topics that I haven’t thought of…

Please contact me at presentations@vicpimakers.ca with your ideas.

Meetups for the first quarter of 2016 are:

• January 9th and 23rd
• February 13th and 27th
• March 12 and 26th

First 2016 presentation – January 9th

To kick off the New Year, I’m going to present simple Raspberry Pi General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) (basic turning an LED light on and off — don’t worry, I’ll bring the LED!) on January 9th, 2016. This is the equivalent of the introductory Hello World printout in programming. So this date is covered unless anyone else wants it; if so I will yield.

Happy New Year!

Deid