A quiet meeting.

Diane brought along some dresses she has made:

Diane wanted to scan in all her fabric squares that people had drawn and written on at the 2017 Shenzhen Makers Faire:

To do this, she used the Doc-Pi camera rig:

And by closing the glass lid, automaticly kicked off the LEDs and photography process:

Doc-Pi is a Raspberry Pi 2, Raspberry Pi Camera and Display  based system.  Below is a view of the electronics board and 3D printed stands from behind the RPi:

Once the photo has been taken, a OpenCV based Python script locates the block edge:

this can then be applied to the photo:

Then the internal edges can be excluded:

From the rough block edge outline, you can find each of the four corners (green box):

Next the block image can be cut out, auto-rotated horizontal, resized and saved to a USB flash drive:

A special voltage reference board was used to compare different multimeter's, across four different voltages.  The worst meter, was the $7.00 yellow meter, at 0.3%, with the best at 0.05% out.  Both are not too bad.

It was great to see a new person swing by to ask about how to get into electronics.  The Dardanup Shire President popped in for a chat and an update on the new Shire building process and possible Makespace.

Stephen showed of some new IoT LoRaWAN gear that he will be installing soon:

Stephen has also been out flying quad copters and testing out mapping and creating point clouds:

As well as 3D imagery:

Phillip was writing programs for his environmental WeMOS sensor platform:

WeMOS and a Raspberry Pi:

Rob was comparing two different milli-ohm meters:

Stacy has branched out into 3D card making:

Going Sailing?  There is a card for that:

A baby girl?  Yep, that too:

Diane couldn't make the meeting, but she has a story about unicorns and zebras merging to become a unizebra:

Eunny's (met at Shenzhen Maker Fair) 3D Printed unizebra:

Paul's LED cabling samples have expanded:

The first meeting of the year in Busselton.  Lots of sewing and electronics and sometimes meshing them together.

Is this a star or a flower?

Lots of sewing to be done:

Playing around with a Lolibot:

Playing around with lighting up Dragons teeth:

A close up:

and integrated into a flower:

Now, how can I integrate the above onto a linear actuator?