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    Quelab at ACE!

    April 22nd, 2012

    Look for us at the Albuquerque Comic Expo (ACE), June 8-10 at the ABQ convention center, we will have a booth.

    Members: Think of stuff you can bring for show and tell. Remember that the public is drawn to flashing lights like moths.

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    Arduino April

    April 5th, 2012


    Quelab is offering an introductory course on making things with the Arduino microprocessor development platform in April. Classes will be held Wednesday evening, 6-9:PM, April 11, 18, and 25. Cost is $65 ($40 for members), and includes an Arduino Uno development board, prototyping board, and support electronics like LED’s, switches, transistors, and wires. Class participants will granted admission to the lab, including all hacknights. Members will be present to help you with your Arduino projects and coursework.

    Bring in a computer to use as your development host. Almost any fairly recent LINUX/Windows/Mac netbook, laptop, or Desktop should support the Arduino IDE. The first session, April 11, will be dedicated to getting the Arduino development environment running on your computer, while the remaining sessions will take you through several tutorials and project examples.

    The course will be limited to the first 15 students to sign up.
    Registration is closed. Class is full.
    See http://arduinoapril.eventbrite.com for details.

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    Course Notes

    Parts are in for projects, so come to Sunday or Tuesday Hacknights to get started on your build.

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    Streamlining Android with Peek

    February 15th, 2012

    Peek is a project to streamline Android to run on lower cost devices, and run more smoothly.
    I am an Android user and supporter, but am often embarrassed by the sluggishness of the OS as delivered by my phone carrier. I hope that some of the Peek work will bring user responsiveness to a par with iOS. If you are interested in playing with Peek hardware, they are making older production systems available to hackers.

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    Mini Maker Faire/ISEA Sept. 23 2012

    February 15th, 2012

    Charel reports that the mini maker faire will co-locate with ISEA 2012. It will be at the Civic Plaza from 10-6.

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    February Chocolate Event

    February 6th, 2012

    See the Chocolate Forum for discussion of activities we are planning for the February 25 Chocolate Event(s).

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    Installing the Arduino Development Environment on LINUX

    January 14th, 2012

    After a few of us discovered how needlessly complicated many of the setup guides were for Debian/Ubuntu systems, we decided to do a quick tutorial on the steps to get started with Arduino as a public service.

    Quick install directions for people using a Debian based LINUX distro, like Ubuntu:
    sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre gcc-avr avr-libc
    Then get the package for your platform from http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software, 32 or 64 bit linux.
    Unpack the archive:
    cd
    tar xvf Downloads/arduino*.tgz
    Put a symbolic link to …/arduino???/arduino on your path:
    cd /usr/local/bin
    sudo ln -s ~/arduino-0023/arduino

    Open the IDE, arduino& on the command line, and select the correct serial port possibly ttyACM0.

    Bam Done!

    Install a launcher for /usr/local/bin/arduino if desired.

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    ABQ Sprout

    January 11th, 2012

    ABQ Sprout
    sponsors a dinner where people present grant proposals.
    The winning proposal takes home the bulk of the money charged for the dinner.
    The winning proposal usually has some “benefit to the community”.

    The deadline for proposals is Sunday, Jan 22 (extended one week). They do not have many proposals!

    If you want to propose, go for it!

    If you have an idea that Quelab can propose, please let us know, and
    perhaps we can work together on a Quelab proposal.

    Either way, I hope some of us can attend, and if any of the proposals
    seem like they could be assisted by Quelab, we can offer support.

    They need volunteers, contact them if you can help.
    Support kitchen staff is needed, and if you are not “certified”
    you will need to attend a food service training which is being
    offered for free to volunteers.

    They also need donations of dishes, glasses, and flatware.
    If you have dishes, or know of a restaurant changing their
    settings, PLEASE let them know.

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    Bacon

    January 9th, 2012

    Planning to cure some bacon week after new year’s. If you want to join, get those pork bellies in brine NOW, and follow:
    Bacon Forum

    Kellers got bacon this AM, 1/9/2012. Act fast to reserve some before they freeze it!

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    Brewing

    October 30th, 2011

    Interested in doing some brewing? See the
    brewing discussion.
    We will coordinate a date with those interested.
    We should be able to accommodate about 4-6 people.

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    BEAM bots

    October 30th, 2011

    Who is interested in BEAM bots? Biology Electronic Aesthetic Mechanics? These are small, simple robots, built from a small number of discrete components. Part of the Aesthetic of these robots is to make a robot from a very simple analogue circuit. This is NOT something people are likely to be able to finish in a single event or hacknight. Two hacknights, perhaps. If we do this as an event, or just a way to increase hacknight participation we would want people to reserve a spot. We may want to order some slightly more expensive parts like solar panels or 555s.

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