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South West Makers (Australia)

SW Makers April 2017 Eaton Meeting

9/4/2017

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This months Eaton Makers meeting had a real mix of projects being worked on.

Some things that where discussed:

http://hackaday.com/2017/04/07/platformio-and-visual-studio-take-over-the-world/  a new programming IDE that came up last week on Hack-A-Day

http://sirlagz.net/2017/04/03/exagear-deskop-2-0-review/  a Raspberry Pi based addon that allows you to run some Windows based GPU based programs.  
https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/exagear-desktop-features-and-prices/  it's not free, but looks promising if you're  looking to run older Windows games on a RPi.

There was mention of the different 3D CAD packages that we use, here is a list of free-to-use:
  • http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/students-teachers-educators  ; there is a free Makers version available
  • https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/home 
  • https://www.tinkercad.com/
  • https://www.freecadweb.org/
  • http://www.openscad.org/
  • https://www.blender.org/


No flying inside the Eaton Library, but it comes with a 4K video stream - very nice piece of kit
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A very pretty kaleidoscope Raspberry Pi Unicorn Hat
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The Pi-Cluster is having an assortment of surface mounted boards created:
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A close up of the above boards.  These PCB's have been milled with a CNC router, then hand soldered:
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Someone has a wedding coming up, so some prototype wedding cards where made up:
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The ROS based robot is now moving and is currently controlled via a Bluetooth network connection.  It's being powered form an old laptop battery:
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I haven't seen a spinning wheel in action for quite sometime, but some people where testing it out:
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An Arduino Mega being put through it's paces to see if it still worked - yes, it does:
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more patchwork and fabric art being worked on:
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A willow tree woven with wool basket was being worked on:
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an ePaper/Arduino Nano based Temperature sensor/display:
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an order for 10 ePaper displays arrived last week:
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I didn't get any photos for the M & M colour sorter project that was being fleshed out in a 3D CAD program.  Nor the discussion on designing computer game layouts.
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