6:15-7:15pm Official group & committee business 
7:15-8:45pm "Maker's Meetup", show & tell (bring projects!), project talk, fun stuff

Tentative official agenda:

• Strategic Plan review
• Meeting format proposal
• Committee membership & size

See here for complete details, including location and a map.

I have finally posted a video of my HT1632-AVR library in action. There's not a lot to the video but I am sick of trying to get Adobe Premiere to play nice with my (possibly lack of supported) CODECS.

One thing I find myself doing time and time again is dropping a microcontroller into a schematic, then wiring up a crystal, serial port, power filtering, etc.

To save myself (and you!) time, I'm saving schematics with the initial parts already hooked up. To get your project going, grab one of the schematics and delete the parts you don't need for your project.

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You can grab the schematics from out GIT repository:

More progress has been made on MHVlib - I just added support for passive LED matrices and gamma correction. A/D & PWM support were added last week.

Check it out on the MHVlib project page.

(Sorry for the late notice on this one, folks.)

6:15-7:15pm Official group & committee business 
7:15-8:45pm "Maker's Meetup", show & tell (bring projects!), project talk, fun stuff

This week it seems like we have a lot of official business again, so we may run over the one hour limit.

Another (Completed!!) project is a DDR (Dance dance revolution) board for the Dreamcast.

I will let the pictures speak for themselves but it is made of MDF with thin aluminium sheet contact cemented down over the top, L-brackets and polycarbonate squares for the pads. Wiring it up was as easy as soldering to the correct buttons on the control pad.

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Show & Tell, Maker's Meetup

No formal committee part to this meeting, just bring your projects to show and tell, or just bring yourself.

DIFFERENT LOCATION: In the Canberra Centre upstairs food court, next to the escalators to Dendy.

Our lack of clear direction is hampering our progress. We have lots of cool thoughts and ideas but we haven't mapped out what we need to do to make them happen. We need to develop a clear and concise strategic plan and document it on the website. I have planned; and will be running; a brainstorming session at this coming meeting to get the big picture mapped out. I will be providing all the materials needed for this session. Including a stack of bright happy textas! I'll be running a pretty strict time line and there will be no bikeshedding. If you need to know more, jump into IRC and I may answer your questions if I feel they wont give too much away. Your best bet is to show up at the meeting, all will be answered then. If you can't make it or you know your going to be late let me know here, in IRC, on the committee mailing list or my email.

We'll be in the Braddon Club's cottage again and I'll try to stick to our regular meeting schedule (Meeting Details). Get there as close to 6:15 as you can so we can get through the action items from the previous meeting, get started on the stategic planning session and hopefully we won't eat into the project show and tell time. It should be a fun night.

(Sorry for the late notice on this one, folks.)

6:15-7:15pm Official group & committee business 
7:15-8:45pm "Maker's Meetup", show & tell (bring projects!), project talk, fun stuff

Feel free to come to either or both parts of the meeting. First timers welcome.

Our official business this week will be focused on writing objectives and goals.

See here for complete details, including location and a map.

I, like many people, was excited to learn of the Sure Electronics LED Matrix displays going for cheap on ebay. Sure' makes several different LED displays, the most common being the 0832; in red (DE-DP104) or green (DE-DP105) and the 2416; also in red (DE-DP016) or green (DE-DP017).

This is the story of why I wrote my HT1632-AVR library. If that's of interest to you; read on, if you're just after the code; it's in devdsp/HT1632-AVR on GitHub. Read more »