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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 12 - 17 March 2012
1st Floor Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney http://www.sydneypc.com Sydney PCUG's Blog UPCOMING SIGs 19 - 24 March 2012 Tuesdays Senior SIG Genealogy SIG Digital Photography SIG Foxit Reader John Lucke created a simple hands-on exercise for annotating PDF documents in Foxit Reader 5.1 for today's Seniors SIG. It can be seen here. Robots Some time ago presenter showed us how a small helicopter could be made to fly around the room at a Main Meeting. You can now see how many robotic helicopters can be programmed to fly in formation and cooperate to complete tasks if you click here.	Hello and Welcome, We have two meeting next week and the details are outlined below. *Tuesday 13 March - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5:30pm - 8:30pm* At the February meeting Lino showed a movie of a Pick & Place machine from the South Australian PIC User Group. He also showed from the same source some pictures of a home-built manual PCB drilling machine. The board is moved on a springy base between a camera above it and a drill below. You align a pad to crosshairs on a screen and press the board down onto the drill. Alex showed Bluetooth wireless 2-way communication between a computer and his Fez Panda II board, using a virtual slide switch on the computer and a rotary switch on the Panda. He also showed how he connected his computer wirelessly to a thermometer inside a fridge, and with some C# programming, monitored and graphed the temperature. Steve showed his completed electrolysis project, all boxed up and with operating instructions. Next Tuesday the group will see some new microprocessor applications and programming examples. *Saturday 17 March - Web Design - R. Hume - 1:30pm - 4:30pm* The group will meet next Saturday to plan and design some pages for their web site. There will be a question and answer session at the meeting at which members can discuss web page construction and any problems they may have encountered during the month. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ P.S. The Club's Web site went off-line sometime today. We are working to restore the service as quickly as possible. Cheers, John Mathews 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 25 Years

Visitors are always welcome

WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 12 - 17 March 2012

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

Sydney PCUG's Blog

UPCOMING SIGs
19 - 24 March 2012

Tuesdays Senior SIG
Genealogy SIG
Digital Photography SIG

Foxit Reader

John Lucke created a simple hands-on exercise for annotating PDF documents in Foxit Reader 5.1 for today's Seniors SIG. It can be seen here.

Robots

Some time ago presenter showed us how a small helicopter could be made to fly around the room at a Main Meeting. You can now see how many robotic helicopters can be programmed to fly in formation and cooperate to complete tasks if you click here.

Hello and Welcome,

We have two meeting next week and the details are outlined below.

Tuesday 13 March - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

At the February meeting Lino showed a movie of a Pick & Place machine from the South Australian PIC User Group. He also showed from the same source some pictures of a home-built manual PCB drilling machine. The board is moved on a springy base between a camera above it and a drill below. You align a pad to crosshairs on a screen and press the board down onto the drill.

Alex showed Bluetooth wireless 2-way communication between a computer and his Fez Panda II board, using a virtual slide switch on the computer and a rotary switch on the Panda. He also showed how he connected his computer wirelessly to a thermometer inside a fridge, and with some C# programming, monitored and graphed the temperature.

Steve showed his completed electrolysis project, all boxed up and with operating instructions.

Next Tuesday the group will see some new microprocessor applications and programming examples.

Saturday 17 March - Web Design - R. Hume - 1:30pm - 4:30pm

The group will meet next Saturday to plan and design some pages for their web site.

There will be a question and answer session at the meeting at which members can discuss web page construction and any problems they may have encountered during the month.

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

P.S. The Club's Web site went off-line sometime today. We are working to restore the service as quickly as possible.

Cheers,

John Mathews

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.