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Last Sunday Meetup

Here are the pics from last Sunday!

Lakota is working on her locomotion robot project. Walter and I are working on a game based on movement that will use Arduino and accelerometers. We had other guests too!

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Elgin

So back in the old days when we were running the Blink meetups Doug had this kit he made to introduce soldering and Arduino.

There was this one young lady who came and she was a bit reluctant to do the hands-on activity thinking it was too hard. Her name was Elgin. Doug and I insisted it was easy and she had a go at it.

She was ecstatic when the lights came on.

I came across her online yesterday.

She leads soldering and arduino type workshops in BC now and is a Masters Student in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SFU Vancouver).

https://twitter.com/keywordnew/status/985610674419073024

Here’s a drawing robot she made.

I think it’s clear there is a great value in these walk-up activities!

Thanks Doug!

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CNC Machines

Thanks to Doug the 6040 CNC is installed and running in the space! I hope you enjoy the machine. It’s a great cutter!

The other machines are running like a top too.

To use these machines simply contact us to make arrangements for orientation and scheduling.

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Published on: May 15, 2017 @ 15:23

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Ottawa Public Library

I put a little thought into the Wednesday meetups and here are some ideas. We’ve got our Sunday meetup at the library and that’s awesome so why not have the Wednesday meetups there for the longer term.

The pub idea is a bit wearing. There are people who don’t want to drink or spend money and it’s an ongoing fight with noise. The Barley Moe activity was constantly bumped by reservations trashing many of the meetups and discouraging people from coming. Further I’m not convinced the exposure of our group in pubs is the best audience.

All along the library has been right there and that’s exactly what it’s for so why not use it?

I was already thinking about this while walking down the street Friday afternoon a week ago. I decided to go to the library to sit with my computer for a bit. I walked into a super fun workshop on Chinese calligraphy and made a whole bunch of new friends.

This was so heartwarming and so much fun I decided I wanted to run a few walk-up tables myself. I’ve got a some meetings upcoming with the library to work on this. Perhaps we could coordinate the walk-ups and our meetups and make it a party.

Our meetups have been mostly unstructured and I love that but if we ran walk-ups for the public (and ourselves) I think it could make it even more fun.

 

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Nice Day Sunday

I checked the RSVP status for the meetup and there weren’t any so Doug and I decided to do some work on the Hack613 Space Program.  As you can see we’re starting small.

We also did a wire wrap lesson.

We found out after the fact that Andrew was at the meetup location with his daughter.

 

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Carleton U Meetup

We had the meetup in my office (and a bit in the lab). Doug and others gravitated towards all the books on the shelf…

The space program is taking form. We’ll be doing some fun launches within a couple weeks at the rate we’re going!

Steve (rimstar) was in with his autonomous eyeball which tracks motion.

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Sunday Meetup and Vernissage

Last Sunday after our regular meetup we went to the Green Door for vernissage for the new art show on their walls. It was really fun and we were lucky enough for Mayor Jim Watson to come by for the vernissage.