Sydney PC User Group Incorporated
Visitors are always welcome
Meetings During the
Week 13 July - 18 July 2015
1st Floor
Sydney Mechanics'
School of Arts
280 Pitt Street, Sydney
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20 - 25 July 2015
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Hello and Welcome,
Details
of next week's meetings are
below.
Tuesday 14 July - Programming
- N Hoffman - 5:30pm - 8:30pm
At the
June meeting Andrew presented a paper on the pros and cons of using Forth.
His paper was adapted from several web sources including Howard Oakford's
Forth vs C. Forth is a tiny computer language used in the days when
computer memory was small, and was bypassed by C and other languages when
memory increased. As microcontrollers have small memories there is a case
for running them on Forth.Andrew showed a
program he wrote in both Basic and in Forth, for
comparison.
Steve spoke about Internet Protocol addresses.
An IP address is an identifier for a computer or a device on a network. By
using an IP Address Lookup tool such as IPGP you can trace the location of a
computer that contacts you or visits your website. If you have been
bothered by illegal spammers and hackers you can report them to their
Internet Service Provider and get them stopped.
Martin showed some of the hardware he has been
using as peripherals to microcontrollers in projects he has designed. He
showed stepper motors, clock modules, GPS, PIR, LED displays, ultrasound,
current transformers, Nordic radio links, RFID tags to open doors, RC522
ID cards, PM532, SIM card holders, and light sensors. These were just a
sample of the hardware he has been able to control with
microcontrollers.
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
Saturday 18 July
- Web Design - S South - 1:30pm -
4:30pm
On Friday the
Web Design group will be hosting a meeting at The City of
Sydney Customs House Library and if some of the audience attend the
meeting on Saturday, Steve South will discuss some of the basics of building a
web site to build on what they learnt
at the library the previous day.
If not,
then Steve will show a detailed video on what is needed to make images truly
responsive and the group will have some hands on work to see if they can
put the information into practice.
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John
Mathews
Information for Members and Visitors:
All Meetings, unless specifically stated above, are
held on the
1st Floor, Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney.
1st Floor, Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney.
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