[kwlug-disc] (question) What embedded board do you have?

Paul Nijjar paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca
Thu Oct 2 01:58:07 EDT 2014


Or you could hold it as part of a KWLUG meeting. Monday, Jan 5 2015
is available. 

- Paul 

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 05:44:43PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> Yes, that would definitely be worth the drive to KW.  You could probably
> hold the meeting at Kwartz Lab (Computer Recycling closes at 5pm).
> -- 
> William
> 
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:18:25AM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) wrote:
> > Years ago I was the ?featured guest? at the local Perl Mongers and had
> > a kind of ?intro to hardware? meeting. Simple stuff to start really:
> > driving I/O, basics of transistors and mosfets for switching/level
> > translation/etc., rules of thumb for things like pull-ups and LEDs?
> > that kind of thing. 
> > 
> > Would there be any interest in a revisit of that kind of thing? It can
> > be kept fairly generic so that people using their arduini,
> > ${animal}boards/bones and various dessert boards could benefit from
> > it. I can talk about PWM (for servos, or analog outputs), ADC rules of
> > thumb, driving large loads without letting the magic smoke out, etc?.
> > 
> > I?m getting rusty with my Linux skills but driving electronics doesn?t
> > require anyone to know more than the basics anyway.
> > 
> > -A.
> 
> 
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