[sudo-discuss] Microcontroller Hacking Night - Tomorrow night!!!

[Naomi Most]

Anybody have a robot arm?  I want to build something to turn the tape over
in the radio room.



On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:

> It's that time again folks!
>
> Come one, come all, experienced "i-can-solder-while-eating-a-burrito" and
> "what's-a-breadboard?" types alike, to the 3rd bi-weekly Microcontroller
> Hacking Night @ sudo room.  I'll be there around 5:30 and plan to stay
> pretty late - not 2AM like last time though...i hope.  Feel free to come
> and go at your convenience since there will be many projects going through
> various phases.  If there are a few people needing to build controllers to
> get started, once critical mass is reached I can guide people through the
> process of building a controller on a breadboard ala the Real Bare Bones
> Board schematic.  There are a few projects that are ongoing for people to
> join, including adding a keypad for the doorman, various 2-axis servo
> control applications (solar panels, camera, radio dish, dare i say
> laser???), a semi-automatic beer brewing controller, onboard camera for a
> model rocket, Raspberry Pi to Arduino interfacing and more!  Also I have
> some raw ingredients that can be used to make contro
>  llers from scratch, so even complete newbies can come and with a little
> bit of assembly time start working up the learning curve independently if
> they choose.
>
> We also have an etherpad for jotting down project info.  This is intended
> as a way for people to flesh out what subsystems are relevant to each
> project and encourage collaboration where there might be overlaps in
> technology.  You don't have to be interested in the entirety of a project
> to get involved - just help solve the one facet you're interested in, and
> everyone can fold it back into projects more relevant to their own work.
> https://pad.riseup.net/p/microbotics
> Last time there was a small discussion on compatibility between projects -
> i think it would be interesting to come up with some hardware and software
> standards that we can use in projects at sudo room to give more modularity
> and minimize the rework required to port a subsystem over to a new project.
>  Like common pinouts, connectors, libraries, and communication protocols
> for drop-in compatibility.
>
> Calendar Info and Facebook link below:
>
> https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/microcontroller-hack-night/?instance_id=55282
> https://www.facebook.com/events/330870340348721/
>
> Hope to see y'all there!
> Hol
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