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The PIC Club

The PIC Club is the current format of the Programming Special Interest Group of the Sydney PC User Group.

A PIC is a Programmable Interface Controller, or microcontroller. Many similar devices have become popular, such as PICaxe, Atmel, Arduino, ARM, and we are interested in them all.

We discuss programming, particularly microprocessor programming, and electronic project design.

The PIC Club meets in Sydney on the second Tuesday of each month.

Come and show your projects, or see some others. We have a computer with a projector and a webcam, so bring along your project, or pictures of it on floppy, CD, USB flash drive, mobile phone, digital camera, or laptop and we'll project it on a screen. We have a broadband internet connection, so discussion can be wide ranging. Everyone is welcome, and there is no fee for a first time visitor.

January 2012 meeting

Written by Neville Hoffman

At the January meeting Martin demonstrated a clamping ammeter he bought from Seeed Studios. He uses a microprocessor to calculate and display the power consumption.
John showed an open source debugger for Freescale microcontrollers.
Christopher told us of a USB to RS232/TTL UART/RS485 converter he bought. It provides an easy method of connecting a USB port on a PC to RS232 signals.
Steve showed us oscilloscope traces of a spurious signal on his project and described how he eliminated it.
Anthony told us of his experiences in first trying to make a PCB.

Next Meeting

At the next meeting we'll see some other new microprocessor applications and programming examples.

That will be on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, February 14, 2012 at 6pm at:

1st Floor, Sydney Mechanics School of Arts,
280 Pitt Street, Sydney.

It is one block from the Sydney Town Hall train station in George Street.

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