[TriPython] TriPython July 2018 Meeting: Lighting Macro Photographs with CircuitPython

[Calloway, Chris]

Stacy Morse will bring it again next week for our monthly featured speaker meeting.

http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/july-18-mtg

When: Thursday, July 26, 7-9pm
Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room, 5th Floor, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 590, Chapel Hill
What: LED lighting rigs are expensive. Worse, they have little to no controls aside from on and off. Most are not dimmable and the only way to change color is to use gels (colored sheets of plastic). In this talk Stacy Morse will present how she used CircuitPython in conjunction with LEDs and microcontrollers to make a custom LED lighting rig. Macro photography is very small scale and the standard LED light arrays are too much for a given composition. LED arrays for photography are expensive and featureless. Use CircuitPython to control LEDs using microcontrollers to light macro photography. Our speaker, Stacy Morse, is a time traveling immortal who programs with Python and builds things that blink. She is a freelancer/contractor building web applications. This allows her to work on her personal Python project, a hand-held programmable LED array for lighting photographs. Stacy's talk will also be featured at PyCon Australia in late August. Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Lightning talks are for you to "show and tell" something you've learned about Python recently, no matter how small. We all use Python, therefore, we are always learning something new about Python that we can tell others. Plenty of free parking is available in the RENCI parking deck. The meeting will be followed by our usual after-meeting at a nearby tavern for food and beverage. Come join us for a fun and informative evening.

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Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
Applications Analyst
University of North Carolina
Renaissance Computing Institute
(919) 599-3530

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   Stacy Morse will bring it again next week for our monthly featured speaker
   meeting.



   [1]http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/july-18-mtg



   When: Thursday, July 26, 7-9pm

   Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room,
   5th Floor, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 590, Chapel Hill

   What: LED lighting rigs are expensive. Worse, they have little to no
   controls aside from on and off. Most are not dimmable and the only way to
   change color is to use gels (colored sheets of plastic). In this talk
   Stacy Morse will present how she used CircuitPython in conjunction with
   LEDs and microcontrollers to make a custom LED lighting rig. Macro
   photography is very small scale and the standard LED light arrays are too
   much for a given composition. LED arrays for photography are expensive and
   featureless. Use CircuitPython to control LEDs using microcontrollers to
   light macro photography. Our speaker, Stacy Morse, is a time traveling
   immortal who programs with Python and builds things that blink. She is a
   freelancer/contractor building web applications. This allows her to work
   on her personal Python project, a hand-held programmable LED array for
   lighting photographs. Stacy's talk will also be featured at PyCon
   Australia in late August. Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute
   duration are also welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Lightning
   talks are for you to "show and tell" something you've learned about Python
   recently, no matter how small. We all use Python, therefore, we are always
   learning something new about Python that we can tell others. Plenty of
   free parking is available in the RENCI parking deck. The meeting will be
   followed by our usual after-meeting at a nearby tavern for food and
   beverage. Come join us for a fun and informative evening.



   --

   Sincerely,



   Chris Calloway

   Applications Analyst

   University of North Carolina

   Renaissance Computing Institute

   (919) 599-3530



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