[McHUG] Meet to Eat and Practical Arduino

[Rich Mitchell]

At the club meeting we had a very McHUG like presentation as Dave showed us his weather controlled awning setup using the Arduino.  Dave has now joined the list - thanks for the presentation!

At the meeting some of us were talking about meeting somewhere for a meal to catch up on things microcontroller.  I would be available most any time on Sunday.  Also Monday evening would be okay as I may already be in Westminster Monday afternoon.  Let me know if any of you want to, and what day would be best.

Yesterday my Practical Arduino book came in.  I had ordered it when at Vail in December.  The subtitle is Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware.  One of the authors is Hugh Blemings - VK1YYZ.  He's big into Linux - works at Canonical on the Ubuntu kernel team.  Found an article by him - A Linux users guide to ham radio.  http://www.docstoc.com/docs/22064944/What-is-that-CONFIG_HAMRADIO-thing-anyway--ALinux-users-guide-to-Ham  One of the projects in the Practical Arduino book is a Weather Station Receiver.  Seems to mainly be a receiver shield to listen on 443 MHz which I guess a lot of home weather remotes transmit on.  Of course, I can think of something else to listen to on 443 MHZ.  I wonder if we could use it to keep an Arrow Antenna on target?  Something to talk about at a Meet to Eat.

73s
Rich
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