[TriEmbed] March meeting video and announcements & April planning

[Pete Soper]

The first pieces of Monday's meeting are on the TriEmbed archive page 
<http://triembed.org/blog/?page_id=62> now. The final, "highly focused 
and orderly discussion" part of the meeting will uploaded tonight and be 
available tomorrow.

Thanks to Ian Kilgore, Antonious Iskander, and Vikram Ulaganathan for 
representing NCSU at the meeting during spring break.

Two announcements worth repeating:

    1) The regular meeting of "Raspberry Pi Geeks - Durham 
<http://www.meetup.com/splatspace/events/220895229/>" will be at 
Splatspace this month (as usual) on the 26th starting at 6:30pm. This is 
the fourth Thursday and that's intended to be the permanent meeting day 
going forward. This meeting is oriented toward folks at any experience 
level.

    2) The biggest hamfest in this part of the country, RARSFest 
<http://www.rars.org/rarsfest/>, will be taking place Saturday, April 
4th, starting at 8am at the NC fairgrounds. It's a sea of tables and 
booths of stuff folks like us find interesting. TriEmbed will have at 
least one table, most likely close to Splatspace and TriLUG and/or other 
groups and organizations (Anibit? Maniacal Labs?)  if that can be 
coordinated. If you've got anything you'd like to sell, bring it with a 
label (and tell me how much table space you need).  An end of one table 
will have TriEmbed info. A sign, handouts, and hopefully some business 
cards will be crafted between now and the hamfest. A first cut of 
content for a handout is here <http://triembed.org/blog/?page_id=21>: 
comments for making this better are welcome! And it sure would be nice 
to loop back and settle on a logo.

There are some presentations penciled in for next month, but room for 
more. Anybody got their meters of group-buy smart pixel strips winking 
and blinking yet? I intend to bring a Raspberry Pi 2 and Odroid C1 to 
briefly show a few contrasts and similarities between these two $35 
multi-core boards running side by side via VNC. I might also have a new 
Controleo2-driven reflow oven 
<https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1471240030/controleo2-reflow-oven> 
to show, and maybe a magnetometer-based metal object movement detector. 
I'm guessing Chip McClelland may be in a position to give us an update 
about his IOT project <http://triembed.org/blog/?p=959>, and Charlie 
West might have time to share more about his QRcode-based 
range/direction software 
<https://github.com/charlesrwest/QRCodeStateEstimation>. And Paul may 
have his robot upgraded. If you'd like to share something in April or at 
a "future meeting" send a short description to the list (or directly to 
me if you'd prefer).

-Pete



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