Date: Tuesday, September 4th, 2018, 7:30 pm Location: Danbury Hospital Creasy Auditorium For our September meeting we will have an introduction to Raspberry Pi minicomputers and Arduino microcontrollers. Raspberry Pi is a $40 computer that fits in your hand but has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, run Linux, … [Read more...]
September 21: Single Board Computer Workshop
Well, the summer has flown by (I think someone owes us a summer) and it's September already. Last month Will volunteered to demonstrate one of his toys and hopefully he is still willing. I will talk a little about hosting a website on a Raspberry Pi. This site is running in my basement on a Pi … [Read more...]
March 2017 Single Board Computer Workshop Notes
March was ‘Show and Tell’. It seems that David Wilkinson has been into home theater technology for some time. He brought in several Raspberry Pi-based setups. These devices run Kodi, software to create a media center computer on various devices. It was not possible to demonstrate Kodi without a … [Read more...]
International Pi Day at Microsoft Store (rescheduled)
Saturday, March 25, 2017, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Rescheduled due to the storm on the actual Pi Day, the Danbury Microsoft Store is having a Raspberry PI show and tell. They want to invite anyone in the area to bring their Raspberry PI projects and show them off. They plan to have a prize for the … [Read more...]
Single Board Computer Workshop
We missed the planned November meeting (entirely my fault) so January will be devoted to planning out the new year. What boards do we want to target? Should we discuss individual projects? Should we have a group project that we can all do together? A possible group project might be a Raspberry … [Read more...]
Single Board Computer Workshop: April 20, Raspberry Pi 3
The topic this month will be the new Raspberry Pi 3. Reviewers say it's fast enough to substitute for a desktop computer. We'll see if it really is twice as fast as the Pi 2 while looking exactly the same. Bring your questions and concerns. … [Read more...]
February 18th – Single Board Computer Workshop
In February, we’ll look at some purpose-built Linux distributions available for the Raspberry Pi. Our January meeting was devoted to two projects. First we discussed how my fuel oil tank gauge had failed in testing. When the transducer head of the distance sensor was located in the pipe, the … [Read more...]
August/September 2015 Single Board Computer Workshop
Windows 10 IoT on the Raspberry Pi 2 Is IoT the NBT? If you said “Yes!”, then Microsoft might have something in a version of Windows 10 that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2. If your answer was “Huh?”, well that’s ok. We'll learn together. “IoT” means the Internet of things. No matter what that is, … [Read more...]
June 2015 Single Board Computer Workshop Notes
Home Automation Home automation has been a fascination of mine since someone said a computer could control a thermostat. At the May meeting Tom Gerhard showed us several years’ worth of his home automation projects. I was disappointed when we ran out of time just as Tom was going to get into the … [Read more...]
Single Board Computer Workshop Notes
At our May 21st meeting Tom Gerhard blew us away with his extensive home automation projects. After a review of each of the major areas of automation, he showed us how he has used several Raspberry Pis to glue together the various projects. His presentation spurred interesting discussion of how the … [Read more...]