NetSig Launch
NetSig
First Meeting – Thursday, July 25, 2019
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Q-College · Suite 303 771 Vernon Ave · Victoria, BC
Bring a laptop with Wireshark (download) installed:
We’ll be covering the basics of packet capture, and seeing what is actually on your network. More Wireshark: pad
What is NetSig?
A Special Interest Group focused on computer networking.
Building networks for Today and Tomorrow!
1.5 hours on a weekday evening
Half of the meeting is education or presentation.
Half is sharing, and problem-solving.
A gathering of like-minded persons.
Understand and solve some of the challenges in networking today.
Are you IPv6 ready?
Help Victoria become a leader, rather than a follower in Networking.
Topics
Education | Traffic analysis: ELK stack and Packet Beat | Virtualized Networking in Cloud containers | IPv6 | Routing |
Saturday, Aug 3, 2019 Linux Sig
9:30 AM to 12:00 AM
Quality Foods, Upstairs Large Boardroom
Eagle Creek (near Victoria General Hospital)
27 Helmcken Rd · Victoria, BC
Summer Break 2019
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.
Sat June 22, 2019 – Useful Tools part 2
Over the years, we have found certain software tools, which not only make our life easier, but make the project more fun to do.
In this meeting, we’ll share some more of these software tools, and ask the group for other tools that they have found useful.
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Camosun College Interurban Campus
Tech Building, Tech 177
4461 Interurban Road · Victoria, BC
Sat June 8, 2019 – Node Red – Take Two
This time we’ll delve into how to write a Node-Red program using the web-based GUI.
Presentation Notes are here.
10:00am
Q-College,
Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
Find Part One here.
Sat 6 July 2019 – Linux Sig
9:30 AM to 12:00 AM
Quality Foods, Upstairs Large Boardroom
Eagle Creek (near Victoria General Hospital)
27 Helmcken Rd · Victoria, BC
Sat. May 25, 2019 – Jekyll and Github Pages
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
Intro to Pi and Others: Part 4
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
The Linux Pages – Tools
Git to GitHub – Sat 11 May 2019 – QCollege 10am
Intro to Pi & Others Part 3
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
Sat Apr 27, 2019 – Wireguard IPv6 VPN – IPv6 in the Land of NAT
10:00am
Camosun College
Interurban Campus
4461 Interurban Road · Victoria, BC
Tech Bldg, Tec 177(parking at lot 8 for park users)
Go to any Starbucks, McDonald’s, the airport, the Library or even Camosun, and you will find yourself on a NATted network. How to get on the IPv6 Internet when stuck behind NAT? Enter the VPN (Virtual Private Network).
In this talk, we’ll show you how to use a VPN to get to the IPv6 Internet, but also share it with your friends (using an OpenWrt router)
Craig’s presentation can be found here. Your IPv6 web funny, Toads, can be found here. (IPv6 required).
The IPV6 utility, IPvFoo, is a Google and Firefox extension/addon, the github version can be found here.
Apr 13, 2019 – Spring Project Update
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.
March 23, 2019 Let’s Encrypt
“Let’s Encrypt” is a free, public usable Certificate Authority that makes encrypting your web server’s
Camosun College
Bldg: Technology Bldg, Room: Tech 177 – 4461 Interurban Rd, Victoria, BC (parking at lot 8 for park users)
Download: Using Let’s Encrypt As A Certificate Authority on a Raspberry Pi
Sat, May 11, 2019 – Useful Tools
Useful Tools (git, sshfs, bash, etc)
Over the years, we have found certain software tools, which not only make our life easier but make the project more fun to do. In this meeting, we’ll share some of these software tools, and ask the group for other tools that they have found useful.
Presentation Notes Here:
http://drsol.com/~deid/pi/gitCraig/index.html
Saturday, May 11, 2019
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Q-CollegeSuite
303 771 Vernon Ave · Victoria, BC
March 9, 2019 – Nzola Part 2 and Oled Display
VicPiMakers will be supporting Projects in 2019. Nzola will present part 2 of his Email Project, and
See Nzola’s presentation slides here.
March 2, 2019 – Linux Sig
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Quality Foods, Upstairs Large Boardroom
27 Helmcken Rd · Victoria, BC
Eagle Creek (near Victoria General Hospital)
Get together, enjoy coffee, and talk Linux. Everyone is welcome
February 23, 2019 – Linux Containers on the Pi: A Server Farm in the Palm of your hand
Camosun College
Bldg: Technology Bldg, Room: Tech 177 – 4461 Interurban Rd, Victoria, BC (parking at lot 8 for park users)
Another container technology which can also run on SBCs is Linux Containers (LXC/LXD). Each LXC Container appears to have its own network stack. And therefore is much more flexible than Docker.
We’ll run 20
See Craig’s documentation here.
February 9, 2019 – Project Day
VicPiMakers will be supporting Projects in 2019. What are Projects?
George Bowden – Timed Lock
Heidi Bada – Intro – https://badadigitalmarketing.com/piprojects/
Ideas
Phillips Hue – timed dim/
Weather Sensors
Wearable Sensors in sport
Home Safety –
Flow sensor in
Launchpad pro using python – Open Firmware project
Environmental Sensors – birdfeeder motion (
Pi version of “the clapper”
Eileen & Cody – Space Station Light & Sound – https://github.com/cozyhost/
Plan on lighting Neo Pixels
Peter Sprague – Packet Radio Satellite tracker
Portable, run in
Moved from
Dan Willis – LED running as a Canadian flag flying
Weatherproof boxes outside
10:00am
Q-College, Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
Contact projects at vicpimakers dot ca to share your project on our next Project Day.
January 26, 2019 – Pi Cam and Python
Explore the Pi Cam and motion detection in Python
Get Deid’s presentation material here.
Camosun College
Bldg: Technology Bldg, Room: Tech 177 – 4461 Interurban Rd, Victoria, BC (parking at lot 8 for park users)
January 12, 2019 – Nzola’s email project
Open source email caching project in Africa
also … random misc info from Deid and Craig
10:00am
Q-College, Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
December 8, 2018 – Who’s knocking?
Setup an IP Camera at the front door, and a Pi with a nice 7″ screen to see “who’s knocking”.
10:00am
Q-College, Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
presentation pdf
November 24, 2018 – Docker and a webserver on rpi
Camosun College
Bldg: Technology Bldg, Room: Tech 177 – 4461 Interurban Rd, Victoria, BC (parking at lot 8 for park users)
10:00am
Docker is a computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization, also known as “containerization”. A Container is a lightweight application component including all the required elements (libraries, config, etc). Containers can be quickly started up without polluting your file system with libraries, and config files, and easily upgraded with one command.
In this presentation, we’ll install docker on the Pi, and get nginx webserver up and running in a container. The presentation material can be found here.
Docker Software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)
November 10, 2018 – Lights Out!
Saturday, November 10, 2018
10:00am
Q-College, Suite 303 – 771 Vernon Ave, Victoria, BC
Hosted by George Bowden and Craig Miller
LIGHTS OUT, a possible life saver. An acquaintance fell in the washroom and was unable to raise attention for thirty hours, and never fully recovered. The monthly cost ($50) of wearable alert bracelets and the habit of not wearing them is a large risk to seniors living alone. This alarm system, based on an ESP8266 and a php web app, alerts friends that a bathroom light has been left on for way too long. The link to the presentation docs is here.