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<p>A box full of NodeMCUs turned up today ready for those who signed up to come along to the HackFest we're having in place of our normal monthly meeting. If you want to come along, you'll need to let me know this week so I can ensure any additional kits turn up in time.</p>
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<p>On 2016-06-28 14:22, Scott Bragg wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">We interrupt our normal programming to bring you something different, somewhere else on a different day.<br /> <br /> <strong>The something different:</strong> is a hardware hackfest using NodeMCU; a very cheap ($12) open-source firmware development board featuring the venerable ESP8266 chip. These are an 80MHz microcontroller with built-in wifi and you can program the microcontroller in Lua, Python or Javascript. <br /> <br /> The plan for the event is to build up a device which can remote control some wireless power points (all parts included) so you can control power to your things. Because it's a microcontroller, you can code logic so that power is applied when a certain temperature is reached, or a certain light level is present etc. The options really are endless.<br /> <br /> On the night, from 6:30pm, several TasLUG regulars will give short presentations on assembling the hardware, flashing the chip and writing code for the ESP8266. Following on from that there will be an all in session where everybody assembles the kit of supplied parts into a working prototype. The cost is going to be about $50, payment being cash on the night.<br /> <br /> <strong>Somewhere else</strong> is Hobart Hackerspace, 2 St Johns Ave, New Town TAS 7008.<br /> <br /> <strong>The slightly different day</strong> is Wednesday 20th July (so it won't be our normal 3rd Thursday of the month, it's the 3rd Wednesday this time).<br /> <br /> RSVP: Please reply to this email to me (<a href="mailto:jsbragg@scriptforge.org">jsbragg@scriptforge.org</a>) by 10th July so we can approximate numbers and to have pre-purchaced enough hardware to go around.<br /> <br /> <span class="sig">-- <br /> --<br /> Scott Bragg</span></div>
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