Over the past year, DACS has undergone a reorganization. As part of this process, the workshops, formerly known as Special Interest Groups or SIGs, have been discontinued. Some may be resurrected as separated groups operating under the Danbury Hackerspace. Contact the former SIG leader if you are … [Read more...]
April 2018: Single Board Computer Workshop
As the DACS organization changes, the SBC SIG will reorganize in the Fall when we can restart under the Hackerspace umbrella. Meanwhile there is a new ever faster Raspberry Pi now with both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth built right in. Play on and enjoy the summer! … [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...]
May 2017 Single Board Computer Workshop Notes
The project this month was to set up a website on a Raspberry Pi3 and then put that website on the “Dark Web”. The project creates the website content using Joomla and adds other functionality that likely makes care and feeding easier. I'm still working on my version of this project and will soon … [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...]
February 16th: Single Board Computer Workshop
Our January agenda was to discuss what form the workshop would take for the coming year. After some discussion, we decided: We will pursue individual projects rather than a common group project. Members would present their projects whenever that seemed like a good thing to do based on … [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
Here is our schedule for the remainder of the year. October - no meeting November - we'll meet and discuss what we want to do next 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? December - no … [Read more...]
June & July: Single Board Computer Workshop
The workshop is on vacation this month. … [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...]