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UPCOMING SIG'S
13
- 12 December 2010
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Stocks and Shares
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Tuesday Seniors
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Genealogy
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Web Design
The
Committee & Members would like to welcome new
members who joined during the month of November.
CHRISTMAS/FESTIVE LUNCHES
Friday 11
December Tuesday 15 December
ANATOMY OF A WEB
PAGE Web Design Simple tutorial/exercise learn more...
Windows 7 Family Pack
now
available read more...
THOUGHT FOR
THE MONTH
"The
shortest distance between
two people, is a smile."
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Hello and Welcome,
SMSA is monitoring the use of their rental room
start times, members are reminded that access to rooms is not until
30 minutes before the advertised meeting times. Remember that if you are bringing any equipment with you please
do not leave it unattended.
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Tuesday 8 December
- Programming - Neville
Hoffman - 6 pm - 8 pm
At the November meeting
Bob showed one of the projects from micro-examples.com, a PIC based clock
developed by writing on the screen. Andrew showed a disparaging review on
YouTube of the PICKit3 and a response from
MicroChip. Martin showed how he used a single wire from a
10 bit ATMEL processor board to access a 24 bit A to D converter using
interrupts at 100Hz. Matt told us how he used a PIC to display on a PC
a graphical output of the humidity
and temperature readings transmitted by radio from a Jaycar Weather Station. Wayne showed
us the picdev and cpik web pages.
At this meeting we'll see some new
microprocessor applications and programming examples.
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Friday 11 December
- Seniors - Bill
Parry - 10 am - 12 noon
This month Bill will show
the group some web-based tutorials... tutorials in a wide range of
subjects - which will be interesting and
informative.
'Social networking' - we will take a look
at the various websites and their offerings, maybe some of
our members are using some of these sites e.g. Facebook,
YouTube, Twitter and blogs etc. Members are invited to give us a rundown
on their choice of this new phase
of interaction with fellow networkers, or if you do not want to present you
could guide Bill through the area of your choice and give the
group an outline on how these sites work.
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Friday 11 December
- Communications - Terry Eakin - 1 pm - 3
pm
Terry is hoping to be in
attendance this meeting and will bring in his new laptop for Bob to
set up and show those interested how it is done. If Terry is
unable to make it I'm sure Bob will have an interesting
topic for you all to enjoy.
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Until next week, health
and happiness,
Cheers
Elaine
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