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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 7 - 12 March 2011
1st Floor Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney http://www.sydneypc.com Sydney PCUG's Blog UPCOMING SIGs 14 - 19 March 2011 Stocks & Shares SIG Tuesday's Senior SIG Genealogy SIG Web Design SIG Speccy download...	Hello and Welcome, Last month our youngest prospective member attended a meeting of the Programming SIG to witness a video showing her design work. Next week, young and not so young will meet again at the Programming, Seniors and Communications SIGs. Details are below. *Tuesday 8 March - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5:30pm - 8:30pm* At the February meeting we linked by Skype to Martin, who is visiting Indonesia. He showed us photos of electronics shops in Jakarta, where everything is cheap. By screen-sharing, he was able to watch and hear the proceedings at our meeting. We discussed the PIC LICK-1, a Talking Electronics kit. It is a PCB containing a PIC16F84, with its inputs buffered with resistors and its outputs buffered with transistors. It is a template for PIC projects; when you get an idea working on the PIC LICK-1 the circuit can be drawn as a new PC board. Andrew described a problem in programming PIC24 chips. Christopher showed us a Peltier TEC1-11710 , and we discussed his idea of using it to measure wind speed. David showed us a video of an LED mobile designed by his daughter Bianca, 4, who also attended the meeting. Neville Hoffman *Friday 11 March - Seniors - Leader - 9:30am - 12:30pm* Graham Grant will lead the group on Friday. Graham will hold the usual question and answer session before demonstrating some small utilities. Members are also welcome to demonstrate any utilities they think the group will find interesting at this meeting. *Friday 11 March - Communications - J. Lucke - 12:30pm - 3:30pm* This meeting will begin with a question and answer session and general communications discussion. John will then test an interesting website for exposing the source of those seemingly authentic but dubious emails we all receive. After the coffee break, the group will compare all the popular web browsers and their special features. The group will also look at customizing browsers with all manner of add-ons and toolbars. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John Please remember if your e-mail address is changed for any reason at all, unless you tell me your new address you will not receive these weekly updates! Any change of address should be notified to changedetails@sydneypc.com
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At the February meeting we linked by Skype to Martin, who is visiting Indonesia. He showed us photos of electronics shops in Jakarta, where everything is cheap. By screen-sharing, he was able to watch and hear the proceedings at our meeting.

We discussed the PIC LICK-1, a Talking Electronics kit. It is a PCB containing a PIC16F84, with its inputs buffered with resistors and its outputs buffered with transistors. It is a template for PIC projects; when you get an idea working on the PIC LICK-1 the circuit can be drawn as a new PC board.

Andrew described a problem in programming PIC24 chips.

Christopher showed us a Peltier TEC1-11710 , and we discussed his idea of using it to measure wind speed.

David showed us a video of an LED mobile designed by his daughter Bianca, 4, who also attended the meeting.

Neville Hoffman

Friday 11 March - Seniors - Leader - 9:30am - 12:30pm

Graham Grant will lead the group on Friday.

Graham will hold the usual question and answer session before demonstrating some small utilities.

Members are also welcome to demonstrate any utilities they think the group will find interesting at this meeting.

Friday 11 March - Communications - J. Lucke - 12:30pm - 3:30pm

This meeting will begin with a question and answer session and general communications discussion. John will then test an interesting website for exposing the source of those seemingly authentic but dubious emails we all receive.

After the coffee break, the group will compare all the popular web browsers and their special features. The group will also look at customizing browsers with all manner of add-ons and toolbars.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

John

Please remember if your e-mail address is changed for any reason at all, unless you tell me your new address you will not receive these weekly updates! Any change of address should be notified to changedetails@sydneypc.com