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South West Makers (Australia)

SW Makers March 2018 Busselton Meeting

25/3/2018

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A quiet meeting.

Diane brought along some dresses she has made:
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Diane wanted to scan in all her fabric squares that people had drawn and written on at the 2017 Shenzhen Makers Faire:
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To do this, she used the Doc-Pi camera rig:
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And by closing the glass lid, automaticly kicked off the LEDs and photography process:
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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:
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Once the photo has been taken, a OpenCV based Python script locates the block edge:
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this can then be applied to the photo:
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Then the internal edges can be excluded:
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From the rough block edge outline, you can find each of the four corners (green box):
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Next the block image can be cut out, auto-rotated horizontal, resized and saved to a USB flash drive:
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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.
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SW Makers March 2018 Eaton Meeting

18/3/2018

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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:
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Stephen has also been out flying quad copters and testing out mapping and creating point clouds:
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As well as 3D imagery:
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Phillip was writing programs for his environmental WeMOS sensor platform:
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WeMOS and a Raspberry Pi:
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Rob was comparing two different milli-ohm meters:
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Stacy has branched out into 3D card making:
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Going Sailing?  There is a card for that:
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A baby girl?  Yep, that too:
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Diane couldn't make the meeting, but she has a story about unicorns and zebras merging to become a unizebra:
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Eunny's (met at Shenzhen Maker Fair) 3D Printed unizebra:
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Paul's LED cabling samples have expanded:
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SW Makers February 2018 Busselton Meeting

3/3/2018

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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?
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Lots of sewing to be done:
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Playing around with a Lolibot:
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Playing around with lighting up Dragons teeth:
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A close up:
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and integrated into a flower:
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Now, how can I integrate the above onto a linear actuator?
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