April 2021 MeetRpt

ANDREW showed his recent purchases from Core Electronics with plans to learn CircuitPython:

-an Adafruit QT Py SAMD21 dev board https://core-electronics.com.au/adafruit-qt-py-samd21-dev-board-with-stemma-qt.html

-a Raspberry Pi Pico https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi-pico.html

He also spoke about his sensor board which uses 2 bell wires to provide power and comms to a sensor network.

Alex spoke about a cheap small parts storage using a shoe rack and baking tins https://thehardcoder.weebly.com/tooltips

-Also showed a simple gamepad for video games https://thehardcoder.weebly.com/projects/simple-gamepad-for-video-games

John mentioned an interesting book called The Dragon and the Snakes by David Kilcullen, an Australian soldier-scholar regarding military conflicts.

General discussion regarding efficacy of various COVID-19 vaccines, K-pop, Python, current affairs.