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--Bob.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">"Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account)" <aklists@mixdown.ca> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Sep 30, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Chris Craig <<a href="http://kwlug.org">kwlug.org</a>@ciotog.net> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I've got a couple of Arduinos (one's bricked so I bought another)<br />which mostly my kids sometimes play around with, and a Raspberry Pi<br />that I haven't had any time to do anything with.<br /><br />Even though I haven't been able to do a small fraction of what I'd<br />like with what I have, I sometimes go here and salivate:<br /><a href="http://canada.newark.com/dev-kits?ICID=hp-rr-Devkit">http://canada.newark.com/dev-kits?ICID=hp-rr-Devkit</a></blockquote><br />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. <br /><br />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….<br /><br />I’m getting rusty with my Linux skills but driving electronics doesn’t require anyone to know more than the basics anyway.<br /><br />-A.<br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />kwlug-disc mailing list<br />kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br /><a href="http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org">http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>