[McHUG] Mason Dixon Hamfest Update

[Rich Mitchell]

McHUGgers,

So far I've got Arduino 0012 IDE up and running on my Demo machine.  It's working fine with a BBB Rev C and P3.  I need to solder up a BBB Rev D and P4 so it will match the give aways.  

I got a note from Paul Badger that 15 BBB Rev Ds and 15 P4 had been shipped priority mail so should easily be here by hamfest time.  I currently have on hand 9 BBB Rev Ds in addition to the one I want to solder up - so we should have about 24 for the seminar.  We should  be able to give one to anyone who doesn't have one.

I want to spend most of my time just showing how to use the Arduino IDE, so that people can go home, build their BBBs and have something running on them right away.  Maybe I should get a dozen or two LEDs with resistor from Anderson so people can do blink.  They will be able to do serial communication directly to the IDE.

Steve, would you explain and demo your CW receive program so attendees have an idea of where you can go with micro controllers and ham radio.  Pat, I think we should present something about PICetSat since that sure is a ham application of a microcontroller, and could easily be implemented in the Arduino.  Pete, anything you have to demo would be welcome.  I'm thinking about trying to turn some of your CW send code into an Arduino library, if I get a chance.  If anybody else has microcontroller projects they'd like to demo, let me know.

Right now I'm not sure about the time of the seminar.  If the testers will be using the same room, we wouldn't be able to start until closer to noon.

Rich

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