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| === CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER! <strike> Social Ice: Thursday February 7th, right after the Technical Presentation </strike> ===
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| Looking for a host to choose a time and location, and preferably at least one other person to commit to meeting up then/there, for this to happen yet tonight. Please email the list.
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| | As some of you know I have working with my brother on his river water quality monitor project. He is the director of the Prairie Waters Education and Research Center near Valley City North Dakota (http://www.vcsu.edu/prairiewaters/). One of their programs is River Watch (http://www.vcsu.edu/prairiewaters/river-watch) where high school students monitor a river in their area. |
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| | The monitor system is a solar powered data logger recording timestamp, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen and conductivity. |
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| We're headed to Social Ice (aka SocialICE), an [https://www.downtownrochestermn.com/events/socialice outdoor ice bar on the downtown Peace Plaza], which if the -25 degree windchills as I'm writing this is any indication, will have no issues with melting or crowding this year (it's Minnesota, that may change).
| | Last fall I sent out a message asking what parts of the project people were interested in. I got 2 responses one asking how we picked components and one asking about solar power. |
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| For those of you who also love photography, note that SocialIce 2019 is holding a photo contest, each of 6 winners will receive a $50 gift card, details on the SocialICE Page.
| | To cover these, the presentation will describe the history and evolution of the project over the last couple of years. It will be at a high to medium level. (I already covered specifics of the Bluetooth and WiFi interfaces in previous talks.) |
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| When and where? The group attending the technical meeting will head there whenever it's a good time to have wrapped up the presentation, and they'll have their own meet up location chosen. So plan to attend the technical meeting first.
| | I will also go through some of the problems and data that was collected last fall. Finally I'll demo the current WiFi interface using the actual hardware. |
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| === CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER!! <strike>Technical Meeting: Thursday February 7th <- Note date change! </strike> ===
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| Due to weather, RCTC is closed, so there will be no technical meeting tonight. Rescheduled for the usual 2nd Thursday, but in March.
| | 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's H1411 (note: For those of you that have been coming for a long time, we are still in the same place, the rooms in the Heintz Center were renumbered. Prior to March 2019 this room had been known as HA108. If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.) |
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| | Also, annual KLUG officer elections, and PCIG officer nominations. |
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| <strike> This meeting has been moved to avoid Valentines Day! I don't want to be in trouble with anyone's spouse or significant other.
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| Arhelger, on Wifi and Home Networking.
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| Everyone asks Kevin what he recommends for Wifi routers, so he's going to put all of his thoughts into slide form to document it for posterity. He'll cover the explosion of options over the past few years to help you figure out what the best option for your situation. If you're looking to upgrade, have complaints about Netflix constantly buffering, or want to make sure your network is secure, this ones for you.
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| This presentation will be recorded, FYI if that bothers you. For those of you who don't make it, look for the recording afterwards.
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| We may also have a mini-presentation by someone new to town, on wifiphisher, we'll let you know when we have more details ironed out.
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| Immediately afterwards, at whatever time the meeting wraps up, those interested will go to Social Ice downtown on the Peace Plaza for our February social, led by Arhelger. So if you want to attend this social, make sure you attend the meeting, or have coordinated communication with Arhelger in advance. See the separate Social Ice posting below too.
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| More presentation details expected to be posted on Friday February 1st.
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
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| [https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus] | | [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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| Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know - but Tina won't be running this meeting, I'll let you know when I know who will be. | | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know. |
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| === "January" Social: Saturday February 2nd ===
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| 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.
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| Park along the road on Salem Road, the sleigh rides are north of the road behind the History Center.
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| Plan to gather around the Schmidt family. Sorry, no easily identifiable blaze orange to gather around this year.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 10th, 2019 ===
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| Dennis DeLorme on his Garagenator (that's garage doing the work of a refrigerator), involving WiFi/Web based temperature sensor/logger:
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| KLUG officer nominations and elections (president, vice president, treasurer).
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| PCIG officer nominations.
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
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| [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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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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Technical Meeting: Thursday January 9th, 2020
Dennis DeLorme, on monitoring current and voltage in his river project.
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As some of you know I have working with my brother on his river water quality monitor project. He is the director of the Prairie Waters Education and Research Center near Valley City North Dakota (http://www.vcsu.edu/prairiewaters/). One of their programs is River Watch (http://www.vcsu.edu/prairiewaters/river-watch) where high school students monitor a river in their area.
The monitor system is a solar powered data logger recording timestamp, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen and conductivity.
Last fall I sent out a message asking what parts of the project people were interested in. I got 2 responses one asking how we picked components and one asking about solar power.
To cover these, the presentation will describe the history and evolution of the project over the last couple of years. It will be at a high to medium level. (I already covered specifics of the Bluetooth and WiFi interfaces in previous talks.)
I will also go through some of the problems and data that was collected last fall. Finally I'll demo the current WiFi interface using the actual hardware.
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6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's H1411 (note: For those of you that have been coming for a long time, we are still in the same place, the rooms in the Heintz Center were renumbered. Prior to March 2019 this room had been known as HA108. If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.)
Also, annual KLUG officer elections, and PCIG officer nominations.
Directions to Campus
Campus layout
Heintz Center Building Map
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
Older News
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