[57north-discuss] Themed Thursdays

[richard.buchan at dbil.com]

Really good ideas !

and really interested in the FPGA talk - can we firm up a date for this
please, this thursday maybe ?


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> Themed Thursdays have kind of fallen off; I'm keen to see if we can
> resurrect them.
>
> I've a couple of things that I'd be willing to run:
>  - FPGA programming - there seems to be a couple of people interested in
>  playing with FPGAs. I could run an evening where we go through the
>  fundamental of designing for FPGAs and get flashing lights (and maybe
>  something more adventurous) running on some dev boards (I think I can
>  provide 2 cyclone II boards and a Spartan 6 (I'd have to have a look
>  and see if I can find them - the cyclone II boards are pretty cheap if
>  we need more) to play with.
> - Basic digital electronics - lets grab some resistors and transistors
> and build basic RTL gates and other things. I think the step from single
> transistor to logic is often fuzzy. Resistor transistor logic is pretty
> simple and we could easily wire up a variety of gates on a bread board
> and build something more complicated (I'd go for an adder (not awfully
> complicated but is useful) but am open to suggestions). We could look at
> some of the other options for building logic too.
>
> Things I'd be interested in/we've talked about in the past if anyone
> would run them (or be willing to do them with others):
>  - Soldering - Soldering is something that is very easy to do wrong but
>  regularly required. There are lots of tips and tricks that can make it
>  easier. Let's set aside some time to exchange tips/tricks/pointers to
>  where such can be found and make everybodies soldering better (world
>  domination to follow shortly).
> - Pointing robot - We have a robot arm with a laser pointer and some
> plans to use it to find where things are kept in the space. There are
> quite a lot of things that need to be done to get it to do all of that:
> a database/list of what's in the space and where it is (or should be), a
> way to get from that to what we want the arm to do to point at
> something, control/sensing of the arm location, an interface to look up
> something for the arm to point at, power supply for the arm + control
> stuff, probably more stuff that I've forgotten about.  I'd like to work
> on this as a group project.
>  - 3D printer/mill - Ed donated most of the parts needed to make a 3D
>  printer or CNC mill. Could we have an evening to have a look at what
>  the plans are to build it?
>
> Is there any interest in any of the above actually happening? Would you
> like something else? Are you willing to run something?
>
> Robert
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