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"January" Social: Saturday February 2nd

Sleigh rides! We will go for a sleigh ride at WinterFest for our "January" social. This is an annual favorite with the smaller geekazoids. In fact I think we've even made the advertising photo for this public event, I suspect that mini-Schmidt is in pink on the top of the snowpile and my own blaze orange snowpants can be seen behind the horses to the right of mini-Schmidt.

Saturday, February 2nd, at 10 am.

Park along the road on Salem Road, the sleigh rides are north of the road behind the History Center.

Plan to gather around the Schmidt family. Sorry, no easily identifiable blaze orange to gather around this year.

Technical Meeting: Thursday January 10th, 2019

Dennis DeLorme on his Garagenator (that's garage doing the work of a refrigerator), involving WiFi/Web based temperature sensor/logger:

Did you have the family gathering at your place for Thanksgiving? Did you run out of space in the refrigerator? Did you wonder if the garage temperature was safe for overflow food storage? If so you needed the GARAGERATOR - the WiFi/Web solution to garage temperature monitoring.
In this presentation I'll describe how to use an under $10 WiFi module as a web server to monitor and log temperature. The "user interface" is via a web browser on a laptop, tablet, or cell phone. No special hardware or software is needed on the user side.
I will demonstrate the web server as an Access Point (a stand alone network) to collect and download data. This requires no additional networking, so it is not dependent on a local network.
It can also be connected as a station on a local network and accessible to any device on the local network. I will describe how to do this (it is only a few lines of code difference). I don't know that I will be able to demonstrate this on the RCTC network - as I recall they had some additional interactions to sign on to their open network.
I will cover the hardware and software used in the project. For those that want to get a head start - the hardware is an ESP8266 module, a DS3231 rtc, and a DS18B20 temperature sensor. The software is developed using the Arduino IDE with extensions for the ESP8266 (https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino).
NOTE: This is not an "Internet Of Things" (IOT) presentation. It could be connected directly to the Internet, but I lack the security knowledge (or, alternately, the level of stupidity) required to do that. It can, of course, access the internet via a local network - like other devices on a local network.

KLUG officer nominations and elections (president, vice president, treasurer).

PCIG officer nominations.

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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-=== Social:  Tuesday May 15th ===
+=== "January" Social:  Saturday February 2nd ===
-Disc golf! Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6:30 pm.
+Sleigh rides!  We will go for a [https://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/events/sleighrides sleigh ride at WinterFest] for our "January" social.  This is an annual favorite with the smaller geekazoids.  In fact I think we've even made the advertising photo for this public event, I suspect that mini-Schmidt is in pink on the top of the snowpile and my own blaze orange snowpants can be seen behind the horses to the right of mini-Schmidt.
+Saturday, February 2nd, at 10 am.
+Park along the road on Salem Road, the sleigh rides are north of the road behind the History Center.
-=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 10th ===
+Plan to gather around the Schmidt family.  Sorry, no easily identifiable blaze orange to gather around this year.
-Arhelger, giving us a preview of his MongoDB World presentation.
-pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
+=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 10th, 2019 ===
+Dennis DeLorme on his Garagenator (that's garage doing the work of a refrigerator), involving WiFi/Web based temperature sensor/logger:
-[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
-[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
-[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
-Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.
-=== CITO Social:  Thursday April 26th ===
-Our annual clean up a corner of the world event, helping de-litter a local park as a part of Litter Bit Better.  As usual we're teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7KHXD_10th-annual-cito-and-rochesters-litter-bit-better geocachers who get CITO credit].
-Parking is [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'25.3%22N+92%C2%B029'52.8%22W/@44.0237038,-92.500194,17z here] or [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'24.7%22N+92%C2%B029'36.1%22W/@44.0235278,-92.4955498,17z here], in the SE or SW corners of the park.  The official group gathering location is on the SE corner of the park.
-pm start time.
-Bags and trash are provided, you need to provide your own gloves and a sense of civic duty. If anyone has some waterproof boots and/or grabbers for cleaning the marshy stream edge, that'd be great too.
-=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday April 12th ===
-No speaker, we'll have "show and tell", socialize, and spectate the PCIG officer elections.
-pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
-[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
-[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
-[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
-Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.
-=== Social:  Monday March 12th ===
-Early PI day, with pie at [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bakers+Square+Restaurant+%26+Bakery/@44.0063638,-92.4830637,15z/ Baker's Square (the one by Apache Mall)].  7 pm so you can have a healthy dinner at home first, for health and cost reasons (of course, if you wanted to go to Baker's Square and want to use this for an excuse, you're welcome to blame me).
-=== Technical Meeting: March 8th, 2018 ===
-Cancelled due to no speaker.  The PCIG elections will happen at the April meeting, beware!  ;)
-Volunteers or request for an April+ speaker, or the March+ social, would be appreciated.  Please email Tina.
-=== Technical Meeting: February 8th, 2018 ===
-Dennis DeLorme, "Arduino at Sea".
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-The original plan was to update the "Solar UV Intensity" project I did three years ago on a Pacific island cruise. I presented some of the Arduino to Android interface changes last July.
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+Did you have the family gathering at your place for Thanksgiving? Did you run out of space in the refrigerator? Did you wonder if the garage temperature was safe for overflow food storage? If so you needed the GARAGERATOR - the WiFi/Web solution to garage temperature monitoring.
-But what else does an Arduino addict do when faced with an 80 day Asia/Pacific cruise? Put a bunch of extra Arduinos and I/O modules in a box and put it in his carry-on "just in case".
+In this presentation I'll describe how to use an under $10 WiFi module as a web server to monitor and log temperature. The "user interface" is via a web browser on a laptop, tablet, or cell phone. No special hardware or software is needed on the user side.
-In addition to the UV measurement results I will talk about 2 other projects...
+I will demonstrate the web server as an Access Point (a stand alone
+network) to collect and download data. This requires no additional networking, so it is not dependent on a local network.
-) A scrolling Halloween message on an LCD display - they did some Halloween themed things on Oct 31. I used the user defined character feature to build a pumpkin image as part of the message.
+It can also be connected as a station on a local network and accessible to any device on the local network. I will describe how to do this (it is only a few lines of code difference). I don't know that I will be able to demonstrate this on the RCTC network - as I recall they had some additional interactions to sign on to their open network.
-) A temperature data logger that recorded the temperatures in 6 min intervals for several hours to document problems with the A/C in our cabin. I uploaded the data from the Arduino to our laptop via Bluetooth and used LibraOffice to to graph the data.
+I will cover the hardware and software used in the project. For those that want to get a head start - the hardware is an ESP8266 module, a
+DS3231 rtc, and a DS18B20 temperature sensor. The software is developed using the Arduino IDE with extensions for the ESP8266 (https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino).
-I will talk about the hardware and software for these projects and do a couple of demos.
+NOTE: This is not an "Internet Of Things" (IOT) presentation. It could be connected directly to the Internet, but I lack the security knowledge (or, alternately, the level of stupidity) required to do that. It can, of course, access the internet via a local network - like other devices on a local network.
+</blockquote>
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-Also, PCIG officer nominations.
+KLUG officer nominations and elections (president, vice president, treasurer).
+PCIG officer nominations.
 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
-[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
-[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
-[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
-Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.
-=== Social:  Saturday February 3rd ===
-We will go for a [https://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/events/2018/2/3/sleigh-rides sleigh ride at WinterFest] for our February social.  That's Saturday, February 3rd, at 10 am.
-[https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B000'14.4%22N+92%C2%B030'46.4%22W/@44.0040188,-92.5150877,17z/ Park along the road on Salem Road], the sleigh rides are north of the road behind the History Center.
-Plan to gather around the Schmidt family.
-=== Social:  Saturday January 20th ===
-pm - Ice skating!  On the Soldier's Field track oval (same place where recent RochesterFest summer lunches have been).  Plan to gather around the Schmidt family.
-https://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/events/2018/1/20/ice-skating-on-the-oval
-=== Technical Meeting: January 11th, 2018 ===
-Discuss job hunting, from local options, to telecommute jobs, current interviewing strategies, networking, build your own job, build your own company.  No specific speaker, we'll go around the room and let people talk about what's worked for them and what hasn't.
-Special thanks to our mini-speakers who turned out despite the bad weather, here are the presentations given by [http://k-lug.org/images/8/85/Survival_in_technology.pdf Matt Bruzek] and [http://k-lug.org/images/7/7e/Job_Hunting_Options.pdf Mike Fallenstein].
-Also, K-LUG officer elections, and PCIG officer nominations.
-pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
 [https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
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