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http://www.ingenuitymicro.com/company-news/netmf-gadgeteer-workshop.aspx

Before i get totally sick of the English winters and finally up sticks and head back to New Zealand i thought it might be fun to host a NETMF focused workshop to geek out for a day.

If there is enough interest then the agenda could also include building some hardware?

The idea is to congregate in Stevenage and play electronics, talk rubbish and generally have fun.

Date: July? August?

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Tentative date: July 26th and July 27th
Ideas
[ul]Build a G120 based Gadgeteer main board (apply solder paste to PCB, place parts, cook, test, take it home)
IoT - WiFi, BLE, 2.4Ghz radio
Wheeled robots
Project Chameleon
Other cool stuff[/ul]

Pipe up if your interested or drop me an email to discuss: justin at ingenuitymicro dot com

I will see if i can get some sponsored products from the office, and maybe reveal some cool new stuff of my own ;D

Cheers
Justin

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Is there a french speaking workshop ? :-[

Anyway, why choosing winter for such event ? :whistle:

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Lol - Bon point monsieur

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I have some mittens and wool cap, so I may be in !

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@ Bec a Fuel - bon homme :slight_smile:

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I live in the Cotswolds, so would be interested a workshop. What dates are you thinking of in July or August?

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Planning on doing one in Calgary on your way back to Kiwi land?

Or any other Calgary area Gadgeteer folks just want to do one sans Justin?

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@ kiwi_stu - i was thinking late July or early august, open to a date that suits.

@ duke isnā€™t Calgary colder than the UK? :whistle:

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@ Justin lets not go there as we just strung up half a dozen Global Warming Preachers as summer isnā€™t coming to Calgary this year, but on the positive side, all the ski resorts will be open year round and I donā€™t have to worry about tuning up the lawn mower this year.

Iā€™d like to get some of those cool bolt modules, but I have my doubts that it will get warm enough this year to have lighting, unless blizzards start having a light shows.

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There is this: Thundersnow - Wikipedia

Iā€™ve experienced it, quite wild, and such a cool name. I think itā€™s going to be my new super hero alias 8)

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@ ransomhall what the describing graphic is missing is terms like ā€˜Air so cold I think my nts just fell offā€™ and on the right ā€˜Air so cold it hurts to breathā€™, and above 'Elevated convention in btching frozen hunks of ice so nothing is movingā€™. Global Warming dudes are advised to skip Calgary on their speech tour at the moment as the natives are more then just a bit miffed. Friday we sacrificed a weather forecaster to the Sun God just in case he could be persuaded to show up and bring at least spring with him.

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Iā€™m in if itā€™s late July. Iā€™m planning to go to riat the weekend of 11-13 July so after that is cool.
Sounds like it will be a load of fun.

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@ HughB - good man.
will start pencilling in the last Saturday of July as a possible date.
how does building your own G120 based Gadgeteer main board sound as one thing to do?

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@ Justin - sounds like a plan :slight_smile:
Looking forward to it already.

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[quote]building your own G120 based Gadgeteer main board sound as one thing to do?[/quote] sounds like it could almost be worth the flight there.

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That sounds very interesting!

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Probably cheaper than the me send one to you via Royal Snail.
Besides this board will only be for people than come and make it for themselves ;D

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Updated the first post with suggested time and topics

Tentative date: July 26th
Ideas
[ul]Build a G120 based Gadgeteer main board (apply solder paste to PCB, place parts, cook, test, take it home)
IoT - WiFi, BLE, 2.4Ghz radio
Wheeled robots
Project Chameleon
Other cool stuff[/ul]

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Hi Justin,

the timing is almost perfect ā€¦ start of vacation ā€¦ no final go though ā€¦

Suggestions:
[ul]Porting

  • Web services
  • UDP, TCP, UPNP
  • Security
    • [/ul]The future of .NetMF in general with maybe some assist from the producers

    Cheers

    Peter.

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    [quote=ā€œJustinā€]Project Chameleon[/quote]???