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Show and Tell

27 May

Can There Be a Guelph Demoscene?

Got anything neat on the go? Share it!

We’re looking for unique and cool projects that you’ve been doing as part of your job or in your spare time. In the Coffee and Code group we have hardware hackers, programmers, graphic artists, musicians, and more. There has got to be something cool that you’ve been working on or even something in the planning stages!

Show your stuff and compete!

In Europe, the Demoscene has been going strong for almost 20 years. It’s high time we enjoyed some of that fun over here in Canada. The Demoscene is a subculture of geeks that create beautiful artwork and real-time graphics demos on impossible hardware. Sometimes, they compete amongst each other for bragging rights and other prizes, like at Assembly (the world’s largest LAN party.)

Read up on the Demoscene. If you’re a geek, an interest in something this cool comes by default.

Where and When

This Thursday (May 27) at The Albion in Guelph, Ontario at 5:00pm.

 
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Get your OpenData On!

18 May

Come on in, We're working with OpenData Last week John Rockefeller let the Guelph Coffee and Code group into starting our first [of many] OpenData projects. This week we’re going to continue working on the PHP OpenData Project. If you’d like to come by to see what is underway or join in on the development, stop on in, we look forward to seeing you.

To Learn more about the advantages of OpenData check out the @OpenGuelph Initiative on twitter. To find out more as to why Guelph Coffee and Code is making these applications check out The Last Mile for OpenData.

Upcoming OpenData Projects will include IPhone, .NET, and hopefully a Rails Development.

 
What: Guelph Coffee and Code
This week we’ll be working on the PHP OpenData Project
When: Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Where: The Albion Hotel
49 Norfolk St. Guelph, Ontario
Guelph, Ontario N1H4J1   Canada
 
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Learn to be a Hardware Hacker

11 May

Diyode [@Diyode] is a Guelph Hardware Club that meets at 9pm on Monday nights at The Penny Whistle Pub in downtown Guelph. This group offers hands on learning with simple breadboard electronics building.

Get Your Geek on with an Arduino

The Volunteers of The DIYode Makers Club are putting on an Arduino Workshop.

Venue: 10 Carden Theatre
Location: 10 Carden St. Guelph, Ontario
Date: Saturday May 15th, 2010
Time: 1pm – 3pm 

What is an Arduino?

Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It’s an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.

Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other physical outputs. Arduino projects can be stand-alone, or they can be communicate with software running on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP.) The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased preassembled; the open-source IDE can be downloaded for free.

The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, a similar physical computing platform, which is based on the Processing multimedia programming environment

Where can I find more information?

Find out more about the event, then sign up for the event.

 
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Getting your feet wet with Open Data

10 May

This weeks Guelph Coffee and Code event will be focused on starting up the @OpenGuelph Project.  John Rockefeller will be leading the efforts this week as Cory Fowler will be presenting on Windows Azure at the Toronto Visual Basic User Group [TVBUG].

John will be leading a PHP application to bring an open data feed from Vancouver, or Edmonton and overlaying it on a Google or Bing Map.

If you’d like to join in on the PHP Project here are the details:

Venue: The Albion Hotel
Location: 49 Norfolk St. Guelph, Ontario
Date: Thursday May 13, 2010
Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm

Witness the Power of OpenData

If you’re not too sure what OpenData is watch this TEDTalk, “The Year Open Data went World Wide” by Tim Berners-lee on how Open Data helped the search teams in Haiti after the earthquake.

 
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