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Halloween Projects Meetup

Blinking LED Project

Let's blink an LED using the 555 timer ic. You can do all sorts of things with this chip but we'll be focusing on one of the easier projects to get started. By the end of the meetup you should have a working circuit that blinks an LED. You can use this as spooky ghost eyes, or inside a pumpkin. You can look further into the 555 IC and build alternating blinking eyes! After halloween? Use it as a fake car security system ;)

Links relevant to the project and it's components.

East Troy Computer Club Meetup Notes

Notes, minutes and scratch space for our second meetup set to take place on Wednesday, October 16th, 02013 at 7pm to 8pm located at 2894 On Main (Cafe) on the historic East Troy town square. Many thanks to 2894 On Main for staying open extra late!

http://www.meetup.com/The-East-Troy-Computer-Club/

Club Hangouts (on and offline)

How about IRC?

Server: irc.freenode.org

East Troy Web Sites

Here is an on-going list of East Troy-related web sites. Feel free to contribute!

East Troy Computer Club Meetup Notes

Notes, minutes and scratch space for our initial meetup set to take place on Wednesday, September 25th, 02013 at 7pm to 8pm located at 2894 On Main (Cafe) on the historic East Troy town square. Many thanks to 2894 On Main for staying open extra late!

http://www.meetup.com/The-East-Troy-Computer-Club/

Club Hangouts

How about IRC?

Server: irc.freenode.org

Friday 02011-06-24 at 04:17:21 PM

Started new and improved diary file. Now in markdown format!

A good UNIX date string (used for my TextMate diary now macro):

date +"# %A 0%Y-%m-%d at %r"

Wednesday 02011-08-24 at 04-10-31 PM

HOWTO: Using FileMerge (opendiff) with Git on OSX

FileMerge (opendiff) can really come in handy when you need to visually compare merging conflicts. Other times it's just a nice visual way to review your days work.

The following method works by creating a simple bash script (git-diff-cmd.sh) that sets us up with the proper command line arguments for Git to pass off files to FileMerge.

	"""Iterate over User Profiles and push some fields to MailChimp.

	This script assumes you already have a (lenghty) list setup on
	mailchimp.com. It also assumes that you have a Django project utilizing
	the Auth app and the User object's UserProfile (MemberProfile here).

	It's all too custom to drop in and go, but have a look. This is how I
	managed to push our Membership data into MailChimp. Learned a bunch of
	stuff in the process.

	# PROJECT_NAME.conf - run PROJECT_NAME gunicorninstances
	#
	# This runs gunicorn_django for PROJECT_NAME; to install:
	# * sudo ln -s <this file> /etc/init/PROJECT_NAME.conf
	# * sudo initctl reload-configuration
	# to use:
	# * sudo start/stop/restart/reload/status PROJECT_NAME
	#
	# For a full list of configuration options: http://gunicorn.org/configure.html

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dsq="http://www.disqus.com/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:wp="http://wordpress.org/export/1.0/"
	>
	<channel>
	<item>
	<!-- title of article -->

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	import datetime as dt
	import dateutil.parser as dparser
	import urllib2
	from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

	print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"
	print "<articles>"

	# Loop through each prediction and bet URL.