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You're right, Kevin, there are lots of subjects that relate to the
embedded system label. For the benefit of new list members that may
not have seen it, here is the archive of past meeting presentations
(sadly, many meetings are missing artifacts).<br>
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<a href="http://triembed.org/blog/?page_id=62">TriEmbed Meeting
Archives</a><br>
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Everything you write below gets a big A-OK from me, and I'm happy
for you to drive the agenda for September's meeting. I'm earnestly
wanting you and others to take charge of any and all aspects of
TriEmbed while reminding us of the informal verbal contract Paul
MacDougal and I made when we decided to try to rescue the meetings
about two and a half years ago. That contract was simply to not
forget relative beginners and make them sit through meetings wishing
they could talk to somebody about the itch they're trying to
scratch. I'll leave it to Paul to add fill in the details from his
perspective.<br>
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-Pete<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/30/2015 06:34 PM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kschilf@yahoo.com">kschilf@yahoo.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_2816"><span>Hi Pete,</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_2957" dir="ltr"><span
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_2956">Embedded systems are a
mix of hardware and software to tackle a specific
application with unique constraints of power, size, etc;
otherwise, just throw a server rack at the problem. :-)<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_3807" dir="ltr"><span
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_2956">There are many
interesting topics beyond the Nuts and Volts: machine to
machine IOT stuff, mesh networks, image processing, computer
vision, security, tracking, motor control, filtering, etc.
I have only been to a few meetings, but I am impressed at
the number of people willing to share their expertise. I
enjoyed the presentations last month especially from
Maniacal Labs because I am contemplating my own
Kickstarter. How can you say no to blinking LED's? LED's
are to Geeks as donuts are to Homer Simpson. :-)<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_4622" dir="ltr"><span
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_2956">Many technical groups
are hard-pressed to find anyone to talk at their meetings.<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_3849" dir="ltr"><span
id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_2956">My input would be to
setup some blocks (20 to 30 minutes at your discretion) in
the next few months for member presentations. Watch the
clock, if the presentation goes long, it can always spill
into the adhoc discussion at the end or re-appear at another
meeting. If we run out of slots, have the presenters submit
a brief outline and have the group vote on what they want to
hear about.</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_2956"></span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_3902" dir="ltr">I am
disappointed that I will miss the the pump presentation next
month. Please make the video available. I will plan on
talking in September, but I am happy to do it later if that
makes more sense. :-)<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_3904" dir="ltr">Sincerely,</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1438289843104_3905" dir="ltr">Kevin Schilf<br>
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Soper via TriEmbed <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org"><triembed@triembed.org></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Thursday, July 30, 2015 2:43 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [TriEmbed] EE tutorial talks<br>
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On 07/27/2015 12:36 AM, Ryan Schuster wrote:<br>
> Pete, that's too bad to hear you won't be there. :(<br>
><br>
> My big worry is that there won't be enough time for a
lot of this. <br>
> Even skipping the math and only focusing on basics
and things that are <br>
> relevant to embedded systems, there's still a lot of
stuff to talk <br>
> about. And I don't want to cut into the face-to-face
time/other <br>
> talks/demos. It sounds like August could be a test
run, to see how <br>
> much we can get through in a meeting.<br>
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This is an excellent point. Balance has to be maintained
or the meetings <br>
will be warped away from an embedded development charter,
and conveying <br>
even a sliver of what an EE learns for their degree would
be trying to <br>
shoe horn days into minutes. Bite-size chunks of tutoring
lasting a few <br>
minutes to get across one narrow concept or set of facts
at a time would <br>
have multiple advantages. The water
flow/pressure/restriction demo could <br>
go a long way toward helping folks get a gut feel for I =
E/R, for <br>
example, but any use of the word "integral" during the
first session <br>
might be problematic. :-)<br>
<br>
I think one way to view this is to remind us that there
have been <br>
various little tutorials at meetings over the past few
years. The only <br>
thing knew is the effort to systematically cover enough
electronics to <br>
help beginners to make progress and more experienced folks
to maintain <br>
interest. So I think there should be advanced topics too,
but narrow, <br>
short presentations about them.<br>
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But finally, we don't want to be rigid and inflexible. So,
for example, <br>
unless I've forgotten a previously planned presentation
for the August <br>
meeting (and I'm sorry to say my brain is itching as if I
have), here's <br>
the agenda so far:<br>
1) Usual announcements, have a job/need a job, etc<br>
2) Ryan's water/electrical tutorial<br>
3) Shane's transistor tutorial<br>
4) Missing presi here<br>
5) Open discussion for the rest of the meeting<br>
<br>
So Ryan and Shane could share almost an hour, but I think
we'd be wise <br>
to have Kevin share the September meeting with a non-EE
tutorial presi <br>
of some sort so we can maintain balance. Dan Struckman,
Kevin, Ryan (and <br>
others) and I can target later meetings for further
tutorials. If we <br>
feel like this is just not adequate we could consider a
special meeting <br>
or two (e.g. a Wake library in north Raleigh) for the sake
of getting <br>
more tutoring accomplished.<br>
<br>
This is all just my two cents in the hopes of us
approaching closure <br>
while remaining relaxed.<br>
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-Pete<br>
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