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Meetings During the Week 8
- 13 June 2015
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Hello and Welcome,
Details of next week's
meetings are below.
Tuesday 9 June - Programming - N Hoffman - 5:30pm - 8:30pm At the May meeting we heard a suggestion for
designing PCBs as lids for boxes. The idea is to mount your PCB as the lid
of a box. On the top side of the lid board are mounted the parts that need
to be accessible, such as switches, LEDs, in/out connectors. These are
through-hole components. Also on the top are the labels and logos, as a
component overlay. On the bottom side are all the components that do not
need to be accessed, such as resistors, capacitors, ICs, and these are
surface mounted. The PCB is simply screwed to the box in place of its lid.
No additional wiring is required, and the result is a professional look.
For more details see The PCB as a lid.
Alex introduced us to the Mikroelektronika range of click boards. These are compact and powerful boards that plug into Mikrobus and other sockets, adding new functionality to a development board. David and Steve spoke of a device they are working on for retrieving IP addresses. You can see summaries of the previous
meetings at:
The members will have some new
microprocessor applications and programming examples at Tuesday's
meeting.
Neville
Hoffman
Friday 12
June - Friday Forum - 9:30am - 12:30pm
Are you ready to upgrade your
computer and other portable devices to Windows 10 sometime after the end
of July 2015?
At this meeting the group will discuss the details
of what Microsoft is offering and the state your devices must be in to get
the most out of this new operating system.
There will be a question and answer session at the
meeting to discuss any computer problems members are experiencing or to
consider any general items of interest.
Friday 12 June -
Communications - J Lucke - 12:30pm - 3:30pm
At this
meeting the group will explore how a wide range of modern electronic
devices can communicate with each other using their own private wireless networks.
The
group will first discuss the two dominant wireless systems, Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth, to determine what each system can do best.
They will then look at a
number of short videos which illustrate how computers, tablets, phones,
TVs, printers, remote back-up storage etc. can interact wirelessly with
each other.
As always, there will be time for general discussion plus a question and answer session. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
John
Mathews
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held on the
1st Floor, Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney. Sydney
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