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Not too long ago I was fortunate to win a free PCB coupon from Dangerous Prototypes. During one of their Tuesday give aways. I ordered the USB Infrared Toy. PCB because I had almost started to design something similar using an AVR chip before discovering this device. Although the bill of materials is listed on the Dangerous Prototypes Wiki, it took me some time to order the parts I needed. Part of the problem was some confusion over the actual version of the board. The board has. Small Projects Update #1.
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Raspberry Pi - Tech Notes
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Raspberry Pi Holga Digital Camera. I was struggling trying to get a USB capture device working with the Pi. Annoyed by those difficulties, I stumbled upon Kimondo's Digital Holga 119d. Project. I had a Raspberry Pi Model A and a camera module laying around, so I decided to build one myself. I started off with his ideas and went my own direction where I felt necessary. Raspberry Pi Model A. Raspberry Pi Camera Module. Wifi Adapter One with a RealTec 8188 Chipset than can work on 3.3v. As part of the SGVHAK.
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San Gabriel Valley Linux User's Group. APRS is a amateur radio network where small packets of data such as position. Reports, messages or telemetry are transmitted to other radio operators and. Eventually propagated to the Internet. Http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic Packet Reporting System. The proliferation of small, low power and easily hackable ARM devices opens up many possibilities for setting up unobtrusive computing solutions. Amateur. Date: Thursday July 14, 2011 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Mass, shu...
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Writing and Publishing Books with Free Software - SGVLUG
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San Gabriel Valley Linux User's Group. Writing and Publishing Books with Free Software. Thursday July 09, 2015 06:30 PM. Du-Par's Restaurant and Bakery, 214 S Lake Ave, Pasadena. The old saying goes that "everyone has a book inside of them", and advances in technology have made publishing more accessible than ever. The opportunities in traditional and independent publishing are wide open. But writing a book remains a daunting task, and new authors will encounter many steps along the way. I don't want my ...
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San Gabriel Valley Linux User's Group. Topic: Horror Stories and Trouble shooting! The idea is to have a fun meeting with some scary stories and trouble shooting lessons to be learned. Depending on how quickly the presentation goes we may. Have time to share more, so please feel free to bring your horror story and. What you did to resolve it. Date: Thursday January 12, 2012 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Topic: Virtual Private Servers: On a Budget. Many of the benefits of dedicated hardware without the cost thanks to.
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San Gabriel Valley Linux User's Group. Mini Discussions, Python for Scientific Computing. We will have a few mini presentations:. Redirecting stdout and stderr. Using vim registers and visual selection for copy and pasting. Also if time permits there will be a presentation on Python for Scientfic Computing. Thursday, June 13th, 2013 @ 7 pm. Caltech - Downs 107. The Downs building is across from the tennis courts on California at Arden. Use a shared demo. Or try a private, one-click install. Redmine's plu...
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San Gabriel Valley Linux User's Group. Getting Stared With Linux: A Non-Nerd's Guide. Thursday April 09, 2015 07:00 PM. Du-Par's Restaurant and Bakery, 214 S Lake Ave, Pasadena. Dan Buthusiem will help you get an idea of what Linux is, and how to get started with it in a totally non-committal way. Learn how to use Linux the same way you would use your computer of choice to do non-nerd things, like email, along with a few potentially nerdy things along the way. Thursday March 12, 2015 07:00 PM. Streaming-...
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Ansible - SGVLUG
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San Gabriel Valley Linux User's Group. Thursday May 14, 2015 06:00 PM. OpenX , 888 E Walnut Street, Pasadena, CA, 91101. The wonderful folks at OpenX are hosting this meeting and providing pizza and drinks. Consequently, we require RSVPs 48 hours in advance. RSVPs are currently capped at 35. We may open it up if there is demand. Please keep RSVPs up-to-date. We will socialize and eat around 6pm, and the talk will start at 7pm. Big thanks to Bobby at OpenX for making the arrangements. Interacting directly...
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Pixy for Raspberry Pi. Not long ago I purchased a Pixy. Camera for use with the SGVHAK. This camera can be a stand alone object detection device. It can identify objects by color, sending back their location and size at 50 fps. This information can be sent to micro controllers and other devices over SPI, I2C and UART. The kit comes with a cable that plugs into the Arduino ICSP port. Toy Car Arduino Remote. One of my primary goals for my RC Toy Car Project. Page from arduino.cc and . In the beginning I wa...