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

[William Park]

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.