[XCSSA] XCSSA Meeting: Hardware Hacking Night (Mon, Jan 19th, 7pm)

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

I'm sorry to say that the balancing bot will not make it...

It needs to be re-designed once again, the one motor solution did not 
work since the motor is not strong enough which means the reaction time 
is to slow.

Hopefully by the February meeting it will be up and running and it might 
also be upgraded to an accelerometer and gyro combination which means it 
is truly balancing... ;-)

/Fredrik


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> Hey all!
> More exciting demos and presentations this month.  
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> First up.. the show-n-tell presentation:
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> 	Christmas Light Microcontroller Hardware and Software Design
> 	By Charles Strang
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> Charles will be covering how he designed and built his computer and 
> microcontroller controlled Christmas yard light display, and reviewing the 
> technologies used to do so.  He will be touching on:
> 	* d-light AC-8 controller display
> 	* Quick (5-10 mins) show of how the sequencing software works 
> 	* Quick demo of the board working
> 	* Display of a show-ready controller "box"
> 	* Display of the 6432 LED matrix display controller board
> 	* LPFM transmitter display
> 	(links on the web site http://xcssa.org/archives/XCSSA_2009-01-19.html)
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> Other show-n-tell topics:
> 	* "Singing Hard Drive" by Fredrik
> 	* "Balancing Bot" Robot (using propeller uC), By Fredrik
> 	* Demo of running HDloader and Linux on a Sony PS2
> 	* discussions on basic AC/DC electronics and analog power supply design
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> That's about it for Monday night (or all that was reported in).  See the web 
> site link above for related links to the topics being discussed.
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> As always, we'll be at our regular meeting place, int the basement (room 025) 
> of the Nail Technical Center on San Antonio College Campus at 7pm.  Map here:
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> Hope to see you there!
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> Tweeks
> President of XCSSA.ORG
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