DC612

Ethan Galstad has been asked to give a talk to DC612 on for the June meeting.

Ethan Galstad is the creator of Nagios - the industry standard in Open Source monitoring tools. He has over ten years of experience in Open Source development processes and communities, is still actively involved with Nagios development, and has interests in networking, monitoring, and security. Ethan also serves as the president of Nagios Enterprises- a company he co-founded in 2007 to deliver professional services to Nagios users worldwide.

This Thursdays meeting with be run by Chameleous. Heather and VideoMan are taking a break tonight to do some welding.

We will be playing with MAME, and doing some hacking with the Arduino on Thursday night.

For those who don't know, MAME is a multiple arcade emulation environment for older video games, you know the ones that that you had to stick a cartridge into the slot to play!

The Arduino boards are a development kit for doing prototyping, and other fun stuff. They can be used in just about anything, from setting up twitter feeds, to hacking IR codes. If you have an Arduino please bring it, and share your experiences!

UPDATE: New location for December meeting- WBOB Room 140 on the U of M Campus

We will order food around 6:30 depending on the number of folks that attend, either Pizza or Jimmy Johns. If you know that you will be arriving later than 6:30, and would like food please send an email to myself or heather so that we can add you to the order.

Just got word from Joe Grand (badge creator) that he has about 25 or so USB headers that he is willing to donate to us for our hardware hacking night. In addition we are also going to try and workout an intro or quick chat for that night.

As far as badge hacking goes, I will bring at least 3 soldering irons for people to use.

Things that you will need for that night are:

1. Solder
2. Solder wick or "braid"
3. Mini USB to USB cables
4. SD Cards (any size is fine as the programs for the micro controller are very small)
5. LEDS (optional)
6. Piezo Electric Speakers (optional)
7. Other neat electronic or board components.
8. Laptop with free scale micro controller software (optional)

For more information on the technical details of the badge check out his portfolio.
To program the microcontroller you will need to have the freescale developer tools install. They can be downloaded from http://www.freescale.com/lgfiles/devsuites/HC08/CW_MCU_V6_2_SE.exe?WT_TYPE=IDE%20-%20Debug,%20Compile%20and%20Build%20Tools&WT_VENDOR=FREESCALE&WT_FILE_FORMAT=exe&WT_ASSET=Downloads

I would like to give a shout out to Joe Grand by asking that people visit Kingpins Store and check out his tee shirts.

That's it for now- next meeting is scheduled for December 11th.

-VideoMan