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South West Makers (Australia)

SW Makers December 2020 Eaton Meeting

14/12/2020

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Another interesting meeting that rounded out the year.  Unfortunately I was too busy enjoying the meeting and forgot to take any photos, so I will try and list them out in words.

We had Peter show up with a number of small projects he has worked on.  One being a magnetic field visualiser: tesladownunder.com/Magnetohydrodynamics.htm#Magnetic%20sensor%20array

As well as a plastic sheet that shows off magnetic fields.

Jonty showed off some of his Blender designs that he was ray-tracing.  There are a few of us who are working on building a photobooth demo project that's based on a Raspberry Pi.  Stephen and Phillip are busy writing software for it and I have thrown some hardware together.  Press a button and the rig will light up a LED ring, take a photo and upload it to twitter.

Ross repaired a 12 year old laptop and Diane was cutting out embroidery stencils.

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SW Makers November 2020 Eaton Meeting

14/11/2020

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Another meeting that just was not long enough to chat with everyone.

A bunch of new people showed up, and one brought along a very cool Lego EV3 based Rubics cube solving machine:
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This beautiful three dimensional art work has been built up from a compost of many materials:
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Lots of new hand made 3D Christmas Cards:
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Pre-Christmas present?  A new flexible stamping platform that was some extra 3D printed supports added to it:
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A 3D printer was kept busy churning out new objects:
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Someone has a bunch of new books to read:
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SW Makers October 2020 Eaton Meeting

12/10/2020

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Due to a number of different circumstances, a lot of people could attend this months meeting, so Phillip and I thought we might actually have some time to work on our projects during the meeting.  We where pleasantly surprised by some new people showing up.

After the library closed, some of us went out onto the front lawn and had a pleasant picnic lunch and continuing the conversations.

Congratulations to Caitlin who has published a Diyode article about her recent Women in Technology meeting that was held recently in Bunbury.  You can read it online:  diyodemag.com/features/model_makers_inspiring_more_women_to_get_into_tech
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Peter dropped by and gave a demonstration of his 1980's dead-bug style electronic art work that incorporates LED's and electronic music synthesis:
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We have a budding junior engineer who is exploring architecture:
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Phillip has acquired an oscilloscope, so he can now see what's going on inside his computer build:
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After a few mods and a few feature creep items, a new revision of the 12V Power Distribution Board is under way
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Likewise with the USB LED board.  The microphone has finally been debugged and tested, so a new revision of the PCB will shortly be sent off for manufacture:
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A new project has been started.  All going well, it will be demo'ed at the next meeting.  This is the core processor and power supply:
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SW Makers September 2020 Eaton Meeting

12/9/2020

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It was great to see so many new people pop in for the meeting.  Lots of Robots on display and new ideas flowing freely!

A dedicated Robotics (free) meeting is starting up and will meet monthly on the 3rd Sunday afternoon of the month:  https://www.imakers.net/events.html

Some new Raspberry Pi powered robots where being tested:
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A PiCar-V had it's vision being tested:
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More pop-out cards with unique folding built in stands:
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and embossed outlines, created by ink topped with a powder, then baked:
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Textiles abounded with colour:
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Version 2 of the 12V Power Management Board:
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A Microbot was flashing away, wrong side up:
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Some home made test Electret ultrasonic amplifiers boards (MAX4466 and LM324):
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The LED Matrix was being played with:
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SW Makers August 2020 Eaton Meeting

13/8/2020

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It was great to see everyone back at the Eaton library.  unfortunately I was engrossed in conversation that I forgot to take any photos of the event.

Some of the conversations centred around ESP32 projects, ultrasonic audio detection, PC building, art and craft, SAP1 computer build: deeprajbhujel.blogspot.com/2015/12/sap-1-architecture.html 
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SW Makers February 2020 Collie Meeting

17/2/2020

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On the 15th of February we visited the Collie Library for the first time and showed off some of our projects to library visitors.

Some of the SW Makers working and chatting around a table:
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A pin-up board with SW Maker Project information:
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Phillip was busy 3D printing a hinged box with his Felix printer:
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Ross was still working on his plane technology.  Testing out an Arduino based  servo motor control:
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Stacy was creating some card art:
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Diane worked on her dress tech and did one of her daily art pieces:
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Rob whipped up an ultrasonic range finder:
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And brought along a few interesting books:
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My Cat Buzzer PCB has arrived back so I soldered on the components:
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and started writing some MBed code for it:
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SW Makers February 2020 Eaton Meeting

13/2/2020

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It was great to see so many new faces at the first meeting of the year.

Chris is designing and building a 3D printed speaker housing:
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Daniel has designed and 3D printed a housing for a demonstration wobble motor:

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It's controlled via a RC flight deck:
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More bead work being done on a Benq LCD monitor thats been converted to a light box:
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Ross has been experimenting with augmenting paper panes with being driven by rubber bands.  He has moved onto 3D printed gliders, but no photo as it's up on the roof:

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He also put together a walking robot kit:
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Phillip is working on some software to extract fire location data from the DFRS website:
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Diane is working on integrating some blue LEDs into a slip:
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Paul has designed and built a simple USB Cable tester:
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and a LED digital candle:

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Reportable a 18 Farad (8KW) 100V Chinese super capacitor:
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The camera-Pi is back on the table:
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SW Makers September 2019 Eaton Meeting

14/9/2019

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A small meeting, but lots of different conversations going on at the September meeting.

Someone forgot a 10 year old HP laptop power supply and another member said they have one of those in the car, and a minute later he was up and working.  He found that TinkerCAD now host a virtual Raspberry and Arduino section on their website.  This means you can be playing around writing code and testing it out with having to purchase any hardware - very cool.  Alternatively, you can test it out on-line while waiting on newly purchased hardware to arrive.

Phillip printed out a replacement spool holder (long peg of red plastic sticking out the lower RH side of printer).  The broken one is on the table below:
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No photos, but we had members doing their Cybersecurity homework, others working in TinkerCAD designing electrical circiuts and another knitted up a full length scaf.

Some other things going on....

A SW Maker luggage tag:
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The mobile gaming rig now has a 3D printed servo mount for a stylus and sports a Raspberry Pi 2GB computer:
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A tiny 5mm long photo-interuptor sensor:
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A Raspberry Pi powered Bubblator Art project in the making:
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SW Makers August 2019 Eaton Meeting

17/8/2019

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Great to see some other people coming in to say hello and see what we are up too.

there were some interesting discussions around mobile phone Apps, GPS Spoofing, 3D Printing, network troubleshooting using phone apps and SQL coding.

A webcam mount design and initial print - love the colour:
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Vase test print:
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Rob brought along his new book:  Leonardo's Notebook.  This guy was very prolific with his projects:
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Lots of late night knitting?
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Someone has purchased a new sewing machine and was too busy reading the manual to start with beading:
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Diane finished her cross stitch:
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A nameless badge has been given a new lease of life with some modifications:
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A Bernina bobbin can now be attached to a thread spool:
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The e-paper Data Display now has a 3D printed housing:
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An early prototype of a mobile phone gaming rig.  It lets the user collect geo-location data along with game data:
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and a handy Pygame interface has been written for the above rig:
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SW Makers July 2019 Eaton Meeting

21/7/2019

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It was great to catch up with everyone again after a few months travelling and visiting Maker Spaces across Asia.

There where no photos taken at the April and May meetings.  Unfortunately only one photo was taken at the June meeting and its displayed directly below - James's 3rd hand:
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Unfortunately, most of us seemed to have left important gear at home, but a 3D printer was present - just not printing:
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From tiny coloured plastic, big beautiful things grow:
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A 9 year olds first sewing practice.  Patches went onto a scarf:
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 4.2" e-Paper display is only 1.3mm thick:
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This Raspberry Pi 3 boots up with out a display working properly.  Thanks to Phillip for the loan cables the spare RPi to help diagnose the issue:
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A very colourful LCD (ST7735) in full flight:
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The butterfly release was back, but missing a controller:
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