Eat-n-Educate

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What?

The same idea as a Lunch-n-Learn except at dinner time. These are ~1hr learning sessions about random topics. Bring a dinner, and an appetite for learning something random. Please look in the session description for any prerequisites that may be needed for interactive sessions.

Calendar

  • June 4 , 2015, 6:30pm - 7:30pm: Eat-n-Educate - Intro to SketchUp with thematthewknot
  • July 2 , 2015, 6:30pm - 7:30pm: Eat-n-Educate - Intro to Wiki Markdown with Benjamin

Yet to be scheduled

  •  ?? , 2015, 6:30pm - 7:30pm: Eat-n-Educate - Intro to Haskell with Shapr
  •  ?? , 2015, 6:30pm - 7:30pm: Eat-n-Educate - Learn you some buspirate with mog

Upcoming Sessions

Intro to SketchUp with thematthewknot

thematthewknot is going to go over basic use and tip for using sketchup for 3D modeling.

  • Have SketchUp installed on your computer before hand.
  • Bring a mouse as touch pads are difficult to use with this application.

Completed Sessions

RTL-SDR with Mog

Mog is going to learn us some Software Defined Radios using DVB-T dongles!

  • May 21 , 2015, 6:30pm - 7:30pm: Eat-n-Educate - Intro to RTL-SDR with Mog
  • Recommended Hardware - http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00SXZDUAQ
  • Recommended Software - Gnuradio Companion and gqrx

Intro to Tasker(Android App) with Tyler

  • April 9, 2015, 6:30pm - 7:30pm: Eat-n-Educate - Intro to Tasker(Android App) with Tyler (link)

Intro to Python with Shapr

Shapr is going to learn us some Python!

  • April 23, 2015, 6:30pm - 7:30pm: Eat-n-Educate - Intro to Python with Shapr
  • Intended Audience - Some previous programming experience, a single college class is fine.
  • Recommended Software - Linux environment (Raspberry Pi, Native Linux install, VM on Windows)
  • Recommended Hardware - Laptop with wifi, or Raspberry Pi with screen and keyboard and mouse.

Intro to OpenSCAD with Phil

Phil is going to learn us some OpenSCAD

  • May 7, 2015, 6:30pm - 7:30: Eat-n-Educate - Intro to OpenSCAD with Phil
  • Please install OpenSCAD http://www.openscad.org/