Feb 12, 2013

Meetings
Previous Meeting: Feb 5, 2013	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: Feb 19, 2013

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Old Business

• Hodapp RasberryPi presentation.

New Business

• MakerFaire proposal from Jim
• To take a vote of the membership for HIVE13 to be identified as the official host organization for the event
• To form an event-specific steering committee consisting of Dave Menninger, Chris Davis, Jim Dallam, and others
• Open an event-specific checking account at PNC bank as HIVE13 [501(c)3 status] with Jim Dallam and Chris Davis as authorized signers
• Work with Jason to open and run a Kick-starter for seed donations to enable the event
• Based on income into the account, disburse funds to execute the MAKE event license agreement
• Based on income into the account, disburse funds to reserve the venue (Washington Park) for the day of the event (Oct. 12)
• To contact other potential event sponsors and acquire additional sponsorship contributions
• And other such actions as necessary to proceed with organizing and implementing the event

Attendees

• Jim
• Drew (Guest)
• Shadoxx
• Jordan
• Nancy (Guest)
• Adam (Guest)
• Vance (Guest)
• Vance's (Guest)
• Jason (Guest)
• (Guest)
• Hodapp (Guest)
• Mike (Guest)
• Meteo (?) (Guest)
• Brent Shields
• Barry (Guest)
• Tifany
• Ian Wilson
• Craig
• Matt Robins (Multi time guest)(Guest)
• Jon Cairnes (Guest)
• Patrick (Guest)
• Bill Steele
• Brian (Guest)
• Mike w/ Tiff
• Mike
• Jason Vancleeve (Guest)
• Vijay (Guest)
• Shawn (Guest)
• John Clark (Guest)
• Joe (Guest)
• (Guest)

Minutes

• Business from Jim see above
  • Looks like it passed.

Chris's Talk of Epic Proportions

• There is a display over the door in the bathroom that is driven by a RasberryPi
  • The rasberryPi greatly simplified things.
• Went over a list of links with some usefull information for working on projects
  • Low level ARM programming course
  • Low level configuration information
  • PWM Control software, PiBits
• Other Distros
  • XBMC, OpenElec.tv
  • Android 4.0 (ICS, badly)
  • Debian, Slackware
  • Acorn, RISC OS
  • Plan 9
  • FreeBSD
• ???
  • GPU is fast, twice as fast as iPhone 4s
  • Motorola Lapdock, they are cheap and have a battery, keyboard, mouse, and an LCD screen
  • COLO for RasberryPi for free
• Code for Glass Block Display
  • http://github.comHive13/RPi-ShiftBrite
• GPU doing Ray Tracing
• QA
  • Can it run a JVM
    • Yes, it can run Java
    • In the repositories, needs to be installed
  • How about logging in the GUI?
  • Can you overclock?
    • Yes, up to about 900 Mhz, sometimes more.
    • Supported up to 1 Ghz
  • Anyone have an active project w/ an RiPi
    • OpenFrameworks gui, Open CV
    • Vimeo demo videos
  • Can this be used for a Pac Man cabinet? Is there analog video out?
    • Yes, there is a MAME software build, and there is Composite video out, could get an adapter for the Video out
  • The glass block display, how are you controlling the LEDS?
    • We are using shiftbrite modules which you can control over a type of SPI, RPi has SPI in the kernel, but Shiftbrites do not use real SPI so it is being bitbanged.
  • PiFace
    • Module that has buffers the GPIO, couple of relays, $30-$35
  • GertBoard
    • PiFace w/ some additional stuff.
  • I got stuck writing the image to the SD card...
    • He is on Windows, did not bring his SD card (sadness)