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I'm totally OK with there being no scheduled presentation for
November. A focused yak and show and tell session would be a nice
change. <br>
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However, if you'd like to give a talk about something please share
your idea on the list so *the group* can help set the agenda and
coordinate things.<br>
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Speaking of, I want to make some real presentations in the future.
Here are details about two.<br>
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I invested in a Kickstarter that is on track to create a stand alone
speech recognition Arduino shield. It's called "<a
href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/310865303/movi-a-standalone-speech-recognizer-shield-for-ard">MOVI</a>".
I'll be giving a presentation about this assuming the one I get
works half as well as expected. My goal is to make my workshop able
to deal with commands, for example, "Room: give me some light. Room:
more. Room: I'm leaving for two hours." My Odroid C-1 has been
running as a server for over six months without a reboot and should
be able to make sense out of the raw data coming from the MOVI, a
handful of PIR sensors, etc, with additional single board computers
mediating things.<br>
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I guestimate January or February for this.<br>
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I'm also doing some precision time measurements, looping back on a
project I started quite a while back. I have a rubidium vapor
standard, a decent HP counter and other gadgets these days and I'm
exploring a way to leverage software and cheap temperature
measurement to turn cheap clock chips into cheap but precise clock
chips. This could turn out to be a windmill jousting session and
it's really aimed at forcing me to learn how to design 74HC series
logic, but I figure some of the measurements and setups might be
interesting to share. This would be also be aimed at early next
year.<br>
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-Pete<br>
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