[Chicago] February Meeting

[Jordan Sherer]

Definitely. I'll bring mine. I have a couple, so if anybody wants to  
play with them, we can fire up a couple IDE's and play with the  
sensors. Maybe we can come up with some new and fun projects.

Best,
Jordan


On Feb 3, 2009, at Feb 3   9:15 AM, Josh Cronemeyer wrote:

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> Hooray for the Arduino + python talk.  I've got an arduino that I  
> should probably do something cool with.  Maybe I can get some ideas.
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> I could talk about a couple of different areas, depending on level  
> of interest:
> - multiprocessing module that is present in 2.6 & 3.0 (and  
> backported to 2.5).  It allows for pretty simple and easy dividing  
> of work into multiple processes.
> - NumPy, SciPy and matplotlib in general, recent developments or  
> some interesting modules that depend on these.  I could take this in  
> a few directions depending on how many people are familiar with  
> these tools and at what level.
> - Controlling and getting data from Arduino (microcontroller) using  
> Python and Firmata. I could do a couple things here, but It'd  
> probably involve visualizing data collected from sensors in real  
> time (maybe an accelerometer) and/or controlling some servos.
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> Any interest in those?
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> -jsnyder
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> ----- "Brian Ray" <bray at sent.com> wrote:
>
> > It's that time again...
> >
> > Who has something interesting to present?  A couple random thoughts:
> >
> >   * Should we ask Brantley to expand on his lightining talk people
> > loved so much.
> >   * I think It would be nice to have a meeting dedicated to Ian
> > Bicking and his contribution to ChiPy/Python in the near future.
> >   * We need to work in more language features in our meetings
> >   * What should we be doing concerning PyCon at ChiPy meetings
> >   * What does the number 42 have to do with Python, anyway?
> >   * Now we are starting to have more scientists in the crowd, should
> >
> > we cater some topics in the scientific realm?
> >   * We covered Python on Mobile, what about python for pure GIS?
> >   * What does accessing shared memory have to do with Python and
> > multi-
> > core systems, anyway?
> >   * What do these modules have in common and where do I get:  
> hotshot,
> >
> > pickle, optparse, urllib, pdb, inspect, subprocess, array, tempfile,
> >
> > heapq
> >   * Topics we have covered in the past that may be worth revisiting:
> >
> > testing, packaging python projects, graphing, gui, threads...
> >   * How do I get the management upstairs to accept Python, or do  
> they
> >
> > already?
> >   * Hey I would switch to Python if it only had ....
> >   * I never realized Python was embedded in so many places  
> including:
> >
> > Games, Text Editors, Database Systems, Wireless, ...
> >   * Python is about as cool as Lisp for AI programming, because...
> >   * I fed my dog with Python... and other projects I did with Python
> >
> > in my garage.
> >   * hehe, my kids thinks I taught them how to program computer games
> >
> > in Python, when actually I taught them inductive reasoning
> >   * Gees, if someone would just make the Python docs like the php
> > ones, I might switch... and why this will never happen.
> >   * I wish I had some way to refactor, test and understand some
> > obsfucated code.
> >
> > What about a venue?  I posted the idea on the North Side bar, but  
> got
> >
> > no comments.  What other venue options should we consider?
> >
> > Yes, there are a lot of seeds. But, really we are just looking for
> > something you find interesting. Chances are if you find what your
> > working on interesting and you want to share, their will be others  
> on
> >
> > this list who may find them interesting, as well. Give it a shot.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brian Ray
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