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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/09/2013 10:41 AM, Charles West
wrote in a behind the scenes logistics msg:<br>
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<div>I am also bringing my Arduino (simple) laser data
transmission demo (hello world with a laser pointer). It got
splashed with salt water, but I rinsed it off and hopefully it
can still work.<br>
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I think it's worthwhile for the group to see this to help us get
pumped.<br>
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If somebody has a Parallax Homework board or whatever the Radioshack
equivalent is called perhaps they could show it to Brian, and folks
in the know could share how far he can get with something like this
without a Windows dependency. <br>
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And if somebody has played with Basic on Arduino, that might be fun
too. Here's a pointer to one implementation:<br>
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One breakout group might find it fun to discuss "Raspberry Pi
competition" (and whether those boards are really, in fact in
competition with RPi. I contend that the others are out to make
money: the RP foundation effort is not primarily about money).<br>
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See yas,<br>
Pete<br>
919 270 9433<br>
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