One of the Paul’s that regularly attend the Electronics Meetup asked: What’s a good program to use to learn Python? He’d tried https://replit.com/, but hit some frustrations with how it works. My suggestion was to continue the free Introduction to Python course he had found on https://www.saylor.org/, but to try Jupyter notebooks instead. Jupyter provides […]
Travis is under the weather, so unfortunateley today’s board game session is cancelled.
Sept 22, 2024: CANCELLED: Today’s Clockwerk Corps Board Game Group Read More »
CANCELLED- September 17th, 2024- Electronics Linux and Retrogames Read More »
Everything Electric Show 2024 From electric planes, to logging truck, tonnes of cars, and interesting talks. I had lots of fun, and bumped into a few people from the Valley at the event. I even got a few selfies with the hosts! 😁I took quite a few photos, some video, and tried to record the
Format Change! – Electronics/Linux/Retro gaming Meetup today (September 10th, 2024) Read More »
This week is a very, very short week for me: Labor Day yesterday, and I’m heading to Vancouver on Thursday to attend the ✨Everything Electric Show✨! It looks like it’s going to be a fun and informative couple of days- with lots of vehicles to admire (listed in the first few minutes of the linked
No Meetups (Electronics or Blender) This Week (Sept 3-6, 2024) Read More »
Our WIC (Women Igniting Creativity) is taking a hiatus – possibly returning in September. If you’d like to see it come back sooner, and can help organize and host sessions, get in touch!
We’re moving the Blender meetup to THURSDAY evenings (from Wednesdays)- same time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm. This is a temporary change. We will be returning to the regular Wednesday evenings late June/early July.
Day Change for the Blender/Game Dev/VFX/… Meetup Read More »
Adrian is looking for some more games and activities to play on his creation! To speed up the creative process, Adrian has been using the WokWi interactive microcontroller simulator. This allows you to quickly create a virtual microcontroller and add other simulated components, such as LEDs, servos, and more. You create real code and can
Community Challenge: Create Activities for a Life Size Game Board Read More »
I was asked for some (more) resources to learn about electronics, especially those that include some details about analog circuits. Here are some personal favorites and others that have been recommended. Dick Smith’s Funway into Electronics This was my way into electronics, and one of the only books I was ever allowed to take scissors
I was recently asked How do you learn Python for system automation?
