Infrared Blaster & Learning Remote – Saturday 1st September @ 10:00
IR Blaster & Learning Remote - Project Day We'll be using any of Raspberry pi, Arduino or ESP8266 to drive some infra-red LEDs and infra-red detectors to build a infra-red transmitter and receiver. This will allow you to learn remote control commands and reuse them, and to control your own infra-red devices. What to bring?...Continue reading→
Throwing darts at balloons in a crowded room with lights off
Photography is an interesting art-form, it allows you to use your artistic eye for knowing what you’d like to capture and allows you to combine technical skills to manipulate the camera to help achieve the vision you have for your shot. If you’d rather keep it simple, you can, as most smartphones will have you...Continue reading→
LTSpice circuit simulation – Wednesday 8th August @ 19:00
The magic of electronic circuit simulation. Long gone are the days when an electronics engineer like me had to build a physical prototype of a circuit in order to test and debug it. Computer simulation of circuits is much quicker, and allows the exploration of more alternatives, leading to more optimal outcomes. LTSpice is a...Continue reading→
High Speed Photography Meetup – Saturday 4th August @ 10:00
High Speed Photography Meetup We'll be using Arduino, a digital camera, an external flash and some cheap electronics components to build a high speed photography rig. Bring along your own camera setup, laptop and Arduino and build your own with us. We're aiming to start from just the components and to have a working setup...Continue reading→
Club Meeting – Wednesday 5th September @ 19:00
September meeting - My Efficient Electric Home Home energy advisor Tim Forcey describes how you can save money and be comfortable by taking steps to transform your home to "all-electric". Say good-bye to gas by using technologies such as heat pumps and rooftop solar PV. And let’s not forget the latest ideas in insulation, draught-proofing,...Continue reading→
Club Meeting – Wednesday 1st August @ 19:00
August meeting - Mars Rover A student team from Monash university was one of only 34 teams world-wide to compete in the 2018 University Rover Challenge (URC). URC is the world's premier robotics competition for college students. Held annually in the desert of southern Utah in the United States, URC challenges student teams to design...Continue reading→
Club Meeting – Wednesday 4th July @ 19:00
July meeting - AI to Deep Learning - The Positives Our special guest speaker for our July meeting is Susie Sheldrick. Susie is a technology communicator at Silverpond, a world class artificial intelligence and deep learning company located right here in Melbourne.
Raspberry pi Meetup Saturday 9th June
Come and check out some of the things Raspberry pi is capable of. Whether you want to use it for a lightweight computer, a remote backup server, a media centre, for home automation or anything else. Come along and check out the power of this small and unassuming device.
Mirror mirror on the wall, you might be the smartest of them all
We all have our favourite room in our homes. Maybe because we like relax with a book or do a hobby project in them. These rooms are often more pleasant when we can get a good dose of natural light into them. To brighten and warm them up. Nothing beats natural light John lives in...Continue reading→