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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 11 - 16 MARCH 2013
1st Floor Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney http://www.sydneypc.com Sydney PCUG's Blog UPCOMING SIGs 18 - 23 March 2013 Tuesdays Seniors SIG Genealogy SIG Digital Photography SIG Would you like a cheap way to recover deleted files? You can find a couple of ways here. PhraseExpress Download... Vale Mila Vaughan Members will be saddened to learn of the death of our former long-time member Mila Vaughan.	Hello and Welcome, Details of next week's meetings are below: *Tuesday 12 March - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5:30pm - 8:30pm* At the February meeting Andrew lead a discussion on overcoming the practical obstacles in programming a PIC, citing ambiguities in data sheets, conflicts in commands, inaccuracies in timers, and other perversities. Wayne reviewed the Color Maximite, featured recently in Silicon Chip magazine, and recommended the Commstick at around $30. Johnny showed his circuit design for an electric car. Power from a battery is put through an inverter to supply alternating current to the motor. He simulated its operation under varying loads and speeds with Matlab. Julian recommended an open source Matlab-like simulator, Scilab. For symbolic logic, he suggests the Euler Math Toolbox at euler.sourceforge.net. Members of the group will demonstrate some new microprocessor applications and programming examples at Tuesday's meeting. Visitors are always welcome. Neville Hoffman *Saturday 16 March - Web Design - R. Hume - 1:30pm - 4:30pm* At the last meeting members started to learn how to build a web site. At this meeting the members will first decide whether to continue the exercise by creating their own individual sites or building a site for the whole group or one with a page for each member. They will then: - choose a suitable webpage design based upon a chosen sample page template or from a site on the Internet which displays "20 Awesome Responsive Templates and Themes". - try changing some "Cascading Style Sheets" online; - review the software on the CD distributed at the last meeting; - discuss the selection criteria for choosing a web page editing program; - examine and compare some different editing programs; and - select some online web-design tutorials. A short report of the last meeting can be found in the attachment sent with this e-mail message. The "Build a web site in 10 minutes" exercise mentioned in that message can be viewed here. It is not too late for you to join this interesting learning exercise. Just come to the meeting and enjoy the experience! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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Tuesday 12 March - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

At the February meeting Andrew lead a discussion on overcoming the practical obstacles in programming a PIC, citing ambiguities in data sheets, conflicts in commands, inaccuracies in timers, and other perversities.

Wayne reviewed the Color Maximite, featured recently in Silicon Chip magazine, and recommended the Commstick at around $30.

Johnny showed his circuit design for an electric car. Power from a battery is put through an inverter to supply alternating current to the motor. He simulated its operation under varying loads and speeds with Matlab. Julian recommended an open source Matlab-like simulator, Scilab. For symbolic logic, he suggests the Euler Math Toolbox at euler.sourceforge.net.

Members of the group will demonstrate some new microprocessor applications and programming examples at Tuesday's meeting. Visitors are always welcome.
Neville Hoffman

Saturday 16 March - Web Design - R. Hume - 1:30pm - 4:30pm

At the last meeting members started to learn how to build a web site.

At this meeting the members will first decide whether to continue the exercise by creating their own individual sites or building a site for the whole group or one with a page for each member.

They will then:
- choose a suitable webpage design based upon a chosen sample page template or from a site on the Internet which displays "20 Awesome Responsive Templates and Themes".
- try changing some "Cascading Style Sheets" online;
- review the software on the CD distributed at the last meeting;
- discuss the selection criteria for choosing a web page editing program;
- examine and compare some different editing programs; and
- select some online web-design tutorials.

A short report of the last meeting can be found in the attachment sent with this e-mail message. The "Build a web site in 10 minutes" exercise mentioned in that message can be viewed here.

It is not too late for you to join this interesting learning exercise. Just come to the meeting and enjoy the experience!

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

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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