Meet up summary

[KurtMilne]

Just signed up for this group.

Can someone post a summary of Nov 20 meetup at Tech Shop?

Did folks bring projects to display/show off?

I'll post pics of my 2 arduino projects created since I took the
Techshop class earlier this fall.

1 - animatronic skeleton. Very scary (if you are 4 years old or
under).
2 - Yogurt maker.

Thank you.

Kurt

[Joshua Neal]

I took very limited notes, others can fill in the details and/or
correct me if I have the details wrong. I didn't take an attendance
count, I think it was around 15 people of varying ages, experience and
history with Arduino. Midway through I remembered to grab the
Techshop's camera, and some of the pix are now up on flickr.

Projects:

- I brought an example of interfacing some breadboard-friendly I2C
devices and a (work in progress) robot based on Tamiya parts and an
Adafruit motor shield.

- William Heath brought a tiny low-cost robot based a Google G1 phone:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshop/4131201623/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshop/4131965998/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshop/4131966808/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshop/4131969292/

- Garrett Mace (macetech.com) brought some of his Centipede Shield
boards, and an upcoming wireless project:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshop/4131209581/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshop/4131208289/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshop/4131215139/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshop/4131213055/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshop/4131976260/

Quite awesomely, Garrett decided to hold a drawing and gave away a
free Centipede shield to a lucky attendee!

(I feel like I may be missing a project or two here, what were they?)

Topics of discussion were fairly varied and included robotics,
wireless interfacing including the Xbee and Jeenode modules, camera
input/motion detection for Arduino, pan/tilt motion control of a
sprinkler, and retrocomputing. (I remember a mention of using an
exposed DRAM die as a camera, which seemed like it might be
interesting to reproduce with a modern microcontroller.)

- Joshua