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What do you think about when somebody mentions “amateur radio” (also know as “ham radio”)? If a mental image pops up in your head of a truckers talking in a microphone in his cab about “the bear in the sky”, or old men doing morse code using a vintage radio with vacuum tubes, be prepared to have that idea challenged! The International Telecommunication Union (the “radio” organisation of the UN) described hamradio as “a service for the…

What do you think about when somebody mentions “amateur radio” (also know as “ham radio”)? If a mental image pops up in your head of a truckers talking in a microphone in his cab about “the bear in the sky”, or old men doing morse code using a vintage radio with vacuum tubes, be prepared to have that idea challenged! The International Telecommunication Union (the “radio” organisation of the UN) described hamradio as “a service for the…

What is Aquaponics Aquaponics (pronunciation: /ˈækwəˈpɒnɨks/), or pisciponics, is a sustainable food production system that combines conventional aquaculture, (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks), with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. In aquaculture, effluents accumulate in the water, increasing toxicity for the fish. This water is led to a hydroponic system where the by-products from the aquaculture are broken down by…

Language This workshop will be given in French and English. Arduino and microcontroller : Crash Course N°001 For this first session, we’ll start by setting up our workspace and install the tools that will be used during the series. Those suggested tools include : ** Replit ** : an online IDE that support c and c++ among numerous other languages ** Tinkercad ** : a user-friendly, online CAD editor that will be used for circuit design and simulations

Language This workshop will be given in French and English. Arduino and microcontroller : Crash Course N°002 This time we’ll… Find a non-infected version of the MinGW-W64 compiler Finish setting up our CodeLite dev environment Learn a bit more theory about microcontrollers build a simple music player with our arduinos that may or may not play the DOOM E1M1 theme on a buzzer :metal: NOTE : for all those who couldn’t make it to the first session, worry not.

Language This workshop will be given in French and English. Arduino and microcontroller : Crash Course N°003 Program : Replicate our DOOM music machine on simulators (TinkerCAD & Wokwi) Create a game of Simon with Arduino

Language This workshop will be given in French and English. Arduino and microcontroller : Crash Course N°004 Program : First implementation of our Simon game project : 4 buttons controlling LEDs and a buzzer Second implementation : add gameplay with incrementing light and sound sequences + validating user inputs

Language This workshop will be given in French and English. Arduino and microcontroller : Crash Course N°005 Program : implement gameplay on the Simon game introduce the seven-segment display that we’ll use for showing the score : what’s inside the box ? how to display a specific digit ? how to convert a serial signal into a parallel signal ?

Language This workshop will be given in French and English. Arduino and microcontroller : Crash Course N°006 Program : tbd after session 5

Language This workshop will be given in French and English. Arduino and microcontroller : Crash Course N°007 Program : Finalize our Simon game with two digits score display CELEBRATE ! Discuss plans for future workshops