Using the quiet room for Arduino Hackspace group - Friday 5th Oct 7pm

[marc - HackTheMedia]

Hi all

As expressed in this discussion, lots of members are interested in having an Arduino Hackspace group where everyone is welcome to meet, demo, discuss their projects, learn skills and organise training. 

We'd like to have our first meeting in the quiet room on Friday 5th Oct at 7pm, calendar shows the space as available. Any objections?

Many thanks

Marc

[Charles Yarnold]

Sounds awesome :)

[marc - HackTheMedia]

You should drop by Friday Sol!  

Forgot to mention I wrote a rough draft for the group on the wiki:

http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Arduino-Hackspace

please contribute!

[Akbal Randhawa]

I'll be there, hope no one objects if i bring my son he's interested too.

[Jasper Wallace]

Not really an objection but we'll be moving servers and bits around on
friday afternoon as part of the ebaying of stuff, we shoud be done by 7pm,
i'll try to make sure there are no clashes.

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[jt]

Presumably if stuff still needs to be moved, then there'll be plenty more hands to help :)

[Morris]

I'm a little bit concerned with the name of the meeting, only because
there are people who are interested in microcontrollers generally but
not fans of Arduino or like me who loves Arduino but also wanting to
explore than plethora of options out there. Recently discovering that
I have a need to write in assembly language for a microcontroller in
order to do what I have set out to achieve, I will probably ditch
"Arduino" altogether in this situation.

For example I have just ordered a pickit2 to program PIC
microcontrollers. I have also ordered an AVRisp programmer to write
directly and bypassing the Arduino bootloader. There are many many
starter boards and kits available for so many different
microcontrollers that are much cheaper than regular Arduino that
perhaps the group could be generalised to be about Embedded systems be
it full blown processors like you find on a raspberry pi or
beaglebone, right through to PIC and MSP430 etc.

Hope you don't mind the little rant, just was expecting there to be a
meeting to discuss the meeting and worried it's being setup fully as
Arduino when really that's quite limiting.

:)

On 1 October 2012 20:10, jt <jto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Presumably if stuff still needs to be moved, then there'll be plenty more
> hands to help :)

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[Billy]

I think that this first meeting is the discussion stage, to sort out
what we're going to do.

And yes, the arduino is the micro-controller, that most of us have
easy access to, but there are a whole range of others out there. I
know that i don't know the full range of them or what they are capable
of.

On Oct 1, 10:57 pm, Morris <a.turntabl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a little bit concerned with the name of the meeting, only because
> there are people who are interested in microcontrollers generally but
> not fans of Arduino or like me who loves Arduino but also wanting to
> explore than plethora of options out there. Recently discovering that
> I have a need to write in assembly language for a microcontroller in
> order to do what I have set out to achieve, I will probably ditch
> "Arduino" altogether in this situation.
>
> For example I have just ordered a pickit2 to program PIC
> microcontrollers. I have also ordered an AVRisp programmer to write
> directly and bypassing the Arduino bootloader. There are many many
> starter boards and kits available for so many different
> microcontrollers that are much cheaper than regular Arduino that
> perhaps the group could be generalised to be about Embedded systems be
> it full blown processors like you find on a raspberry pi or
> beaglebone, right through to PIC and MSP430 etc.
>
> Hope you don't mind the little rant, just was expecting there to be a
> meeting to discuss the meeting and worried it's being setup fully as
> Arduino when really that's quite limiting.
>
> :)
>

[marc - HackTheMedia]

Billy said it all before me in his reply (tks), it will be indeed a meeting to discuss about the group and what we want from it.

Hope you don't mind the little rant, just was expecting there to be a 
> meeting to discuss the meeting and worried it's being setup fully as 
> Arduino when really that's quite limiting. 

It's shorter and catchy-er to say Arduino Hackspace but the full name of the group is Arduino Hackpace (and all microcontrollers). If you read the other thread

you'll see my 1st post was all about opening the group to all microcontrollers.

[Morris]

Okies, thanks for taking the time to reply and inform me guys. :)