[McHUG] Mason Dixon Hamfest Seminar

[Rich Mitchell]

McHUGgers,

We've been real quiet for real long - BUT the Mason Dixon Hamfest at the end of the month is featuring a seminar entitled "Microcontrollers and Ham Radio".  That's a good time for us to get rolling again.  My thinking is that the seminar should focus on one microcontroller and one way of programming it and ideas for using it in ham radio.  That way participants could take away something that they could get up and running easily, rather than just general ideas about microcontrollers.  We could focus on Freeduino hardware and the Arduino IDE.  The outline might look something like this.

A. Hardware Atmel Atmega 168
   * Barebones Board kit Rev 4
   * Serial adapter P4
   * USB cable
   * Really Barebones Board kit 

B. Software:  Arduino 0012 IDE
   * programming - how to program blink - actually do it before their eyes.
   * libraries - how to use other people's code - actually do it before their eyes.
   * mention possibilities with C and assember.

C. Ham Projects

Take away:  CD with Arduino 0012 IDE and other PDFs from the World Famous Index of Arduino & Freeduino Knowledge.

Available to buy:  If we buy in bulk we could make available a Barebones Board kit and P4 serial adapter for about $14.  With the CD all someone would need (other than soldering equipment) would be a serial cable, some type of breadboard and of course a computer.

How do you guys think that may work as a seminar?  If you have done any ham related projects, bring them in.  We certainly could show them an interesting PICAXE related ham project. Any thoughts and ideas on any of this would be appreciated.

Rich
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McHUG - Physical Computing ;) 
MicroController Ham User Group
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