Pi-users May 2013

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Meeting report: May 23
by Judi McCuaig 24 May '13

24 May '13

Hi everyone, We had a great turnout at the meeting last night- thanks to everyone who came! Dr. Kremer showed off his prototype 'sailor's coach' that he is constructing from his raspberry pi, Ben showed us his prototype banana piano (there isn't a banana involved yet.. but there might be), and we started to look at a bit of a programming challenge. HOWEVER- we ran out of time, so I'm proposing that we all work on the programming challenge over the next two weeks and bring our solutions to show off next meeting. The challenge was simple: There is a very basic 'shooter' game available here: http://goo.gl/ddDsU complete with explanation and source code. Its written in python. Its lacking in many gameplay features, so the challenge was to download the source and make it 'better' in any way that you define better. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, June 6 at 6:30 pm. See you all then! Judi

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Pi users meeting May 23
by Judi McCuaig 22 May '13

22 May '13

Gentle reminder that our pi-users group meeting is this Thursday (tomorrow. May 23) at 6:30 pm. We'll meet in Reynolds 312 at least initially. We might move next door into my lab to do some actual playing around with the Pis. I have about 10 computers/cables/powersupplies from this week's order that I can sell if you are still wanting a pi. I have a few SD cards and a bunch on order. If they get here by tomorrow I can sell you an SD card too. During tomorrow's meeting we'll do a quick check to see if anyone has found/started something cool with their pi, and then we'll do some actual development to see what we can get done in an hour. I think we'll work in python because that is a faster development environment for prototyping things and we'll start with something relatively simple. I have quite a few Pis here, but bring yours if you have it set up and are willing to use it for some paired-programming tomorrow. See you tomorrow! Judi

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notes about last week's meeting
by Judi McCuaig 15 May '13

15 May '13

Sorry for the delayed update, I should have sent this out last week! We had about 10 people at the first meeting of the pi-users group! I was impressed. We're going to try to meet officially every two weeks for the summer, but there is a smaller group of people who will meet every week- so you're welcome to come each week if you wish. The consensus was that we'd like to be 'doing' things at the meeting, not just discussing, so we'll try to make sure that every meeting includes some actual doing/learning. Until further notice we'll have the meetings in room 312 in the Reynolds building (right beside my office). Kyle has kindly set us up a wordpress site for our website (pi-users.socs.uoguelph.ca/) and it is ready for content. Three people volunteered to handle the website at the meeting- if you have requests or suggestions for the website, please send them my way. We started a list of pi-projects last week (that will hopefully find its way to the website) and I'm interested in finding more projects- including really simple ones. I'm sending in another order for Pi's today- to cut down on complexity I'm just going to order a bunch and will sell them to you if you want them. I should have them in my office by Tuesday I think. First come first served. The prices for individual components (including tax and shipping charges) are: Pi computer: $42 4GB SD card with Raspian preloaded $15 Micro-USB power supply $9 HDMI cable $4 USB Wireless $15 If you want an entire kit, including wireless its $80 If you want everything except the wireless is $65 Finally, our next 'official' meeting will be on May 23, Thursday at 6:30 pm (I was wrong during the meeting last week.... I'm busy on the 30, not on the 23). Hope to see you then. Judi

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meeting tonight- reminder
by Judi McCuaig 09 May '13

09 May '13

Hi Folks, This is just a reminder that our first users group meeting is today at 6:30 pm in the meeting room on the third floor of Reynolds. I'll set up my laptop with skype running so that people who want to participate virtually can. If you want to skype in, contact me today with your Skype id so that we can add one another as contacts. See you tonight. Judi

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first meeting of the summer!
by Judi McCuaig 02 May '13

02 May '13

Lets have our first pi-users group meeting next Thursday evening at 6:30 pm. If you've done a project with your pi already, you should bring it along to show everyone- we'll have a bit of a show-and-tell. Also, if you have some ideas for projects you'd like to do- bring a description along. My goals for this meeting are: a) identifying project interests and maybe forming some informal groups around specific projects b) identifying needs for hardware and figuring out where to order the necessary bits from (wires, leds, switches, resistors, soldering irons, etc) Finally, we *might* have some Diyode pi-cases available for sale that night, giving you the opportunity to bling-out your pi! We'll meet in the Reynolds building, Room 312 for this meeting (the meeting room that is beside my office). I'll make sure that the east stairwell door is open so you can get in. See you Thursday. Judi

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