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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 13 - 18 June 2011
1st Floor Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney http://www.sydneypc.com Sydney PCUG's Blog UPCOMING SIGs 20 - 25 June 2011 Tuesday's Senior SIG Genealogy SIG Digital Photography SIG Tech Support Package Some people at Google have prepared a Tech Support package "to help keep tech support a family business". It might help someone you know who is new to computing. You can view it here.	Hello and Welcome, The Stocks and Shares SIG will not be held on Monday because of the public holiday. The Programming and Web Designs SIGs will meet on Tuesday and Saturday respectively as indicated below. *Tuesday 14 June - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5:30pm - 8:30pm* At the May meeting Alex showed us some more of the Picaxe Virtual System Modelling program. He used it to verify the power supply circuit Martin showed us at the April meeting. He also applied it to a PWM voltage step-up circuit using a diode pump and a Picaxe-08M. We revisited the Picaxe VSM homepage at http://www.picaxevsm.com. Martin showed us the Bus Pirate he bought. It is a PCB circuit that interfaces a computer with various chips, including AVRs and PICs. You can program and run them, simplifying prototyping. Steve demonstrated GotoCamera's free software that shows a webcam's images on the internet. You are welcome to come and see some new microprocessor applications and programming examples at the June meeting. *Saturday 14 June - Web Design - R. Hume - 1:30pm - 4:30pm* The Web designers will be beavering away again next Saturday. There is still some work to be done on the topic index for the monthly newsletter and this will be done at this meeting. You are welcome to come and participate in the discussion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cheers, 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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Sydney PC User Group Incorporated

Members helping Members for over 24 Years

Visitors are always welcome

WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 13 - 18 June 2011

1st Floor
Sydney Mechanics'
School of Arts
280 Pitt Street, Sydney
http://www.sydneypc.com

Sydney PCUG's Blog

UPCOMING SIGs
20 - 25 June 2011

Tuesday's Senior SIG
Genealogy SIG
Digital Photography SIG

Tech Support Package

Some people at Google have prepared a Tech Support package "to help keep tech support a family business".

It might help someone you know who is new to computing.

You can view it here.

Hello and Welcome,

The Stocks and Shares SIG will not be held on Monday because of the public holiday.

The Programming and Web Designs SIGs will meet on Tuesday and Saturday respectively as indicated below.

Tuesday 14 June - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

At the May meeting Alex showed us some more of the Picaxe Virtual System Modelling program. He used it to verify the power supply circuit Martin showed us at the April meeting. He also applied it to a PWM voltage step-up circuit using a diode pump and a Picaxe-08M. We revisited the Picaxe VSM homepage at http://www.picaxevsm.com.

Martin showed us the Bus Pirate he bought. It is a PCB circuit that interfaces a computer with various chips, including AVRs and PICs. You can program and run them, simplifying prototyping.

Steve demonstrated GotoCamera's free software that shows a webcam's images on the internet.

You are welcome to come and see some new microprocessor applications and programming examples at the June meeting.

Saturday 14 June - Web Design - R. Hume - 1:30pm - 4:30pm

The Web designers will be beavering away again next Saturday. There is still some work to be done on the topic index for the monthly newsletter and this will be done at this meeting.

You are welcome to come and participate in the discussion.

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

Cheers,

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

Information for Members and Visitors:

Sydney PC User Group's FREE newsletter: Subscribe Send to Friend Un-subscribe

Go to Sydney PC User Group's: Website Events Calendar

Please note that all Meetings, except where specifically stated, are held on the
1st Floor, Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney.

DISCLAIMER: This Newsletter is provided “As Is” without warranty of any kind.

Each user or reader of this Newsletter assumes complete risk as to the accuracy and subsequent use of its contents.