Our member Tony Thompson [@tonious] is sporting a new piece of hardware, a wedding ring!
On August 28th Tony and his new bride Sheena had a very nice Ceremony at the River Run Center in Guelph.
We’re very happy for Tony and Sheena and wish them many years of Happiness!
The Guelph Hardware Hacker Community DIYODE has signed up for the Pepsi Refresh Contest in hopes of getting some seed money for a Guelph Hacker Space which will be a space for makers, artists and crafters to access tools that they would normally not have access to.
I hate to say it, but I think we’ve gone off the tracks. We’ve lost our can-do attitude. We are a generation who would rather buy something than make it. Who would rather throw something away than fix it. More kids are swinging Wii remotes than hammers, and the venerable soap box derby has been completely displaced by Mariokart. Is this something that we are going to stand for, or are we going to fight it?
You can help DIYODE by Voting for their submission on the Pepsi RefreshEverything Contest, you may also sign up for reminders to vote on the Diyode site.
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!
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.
This Thursday (May 27) at The Albion in Guelph, Ontario at 5:00pm.
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.
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
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
Find out more about the event, then sign up for the event.
