[McHUG] Welcome and Where We might be Going

[John Chesley]

Rich,

I am using Redhat Linux 5 and processors are Intel Pentiums.  I will have to
learn about the equipment you have listed below so this will be a great
opportunity for me.



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On Behalf Of Rich Mitchell
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:06 AM
To: McHUG Reflector
Subject: [McHUG] Welcome and Where We might be Going

> Thanks for the link.  I've signed up.  Please let me know when you guys
are
> meeting (experimenter committee) because I would like to join you!!  I am
> working with microprocessors at work right now so it falls in line with my
> job. I am ready to start building projects again.

John,

Thanks for signing up and welcome.  There are now 8 of us on the list:
John AK3Z
Dick K3KWL
Bill W3STG
John K3KWO 
Chuck KJ4GU 
Steve N3SB 
Pete W3GVX
Rich N3III

We had a meet to eat last Friday at Stables with 4 McHUGgers showing up.  We
are looking at Saturday, April 19th as a time to get together to melt some
solder (workshop).  We seem to be gravitating toward the Atmel AVR
microprocessor.  I have ordered a number of the Bare Bones Boards from
Modern Device which contain the ATmega168.  Those can be programmed with
Arduino (a C++ based package that does all the complex stuff behind the
scenes using their own header files) or with plain old C, both for free.
According to the tracker these left Frederick this morning so I should get
them today or tomorrow.  We'll try them out as a platform for workshops.  We
are also playing with Butterflys (ATmega169) and Atmega128s.

Several of us are playing with frequency generators like the DDS60 or the
Si570.  One project that I am trying to do is an Atmel chip controlling a
frequency generator into a rockless RockMite.

What microprocessors are you using at work?  And what language are you
programming in?

73,
Rich, N3III

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