Here are pictures of some balsa planes I made with balsa planks (1″x12″) I got from a pallet of donated educational stuff. They were with the expendables marked for the mechanical demonstration ‘modules’ on the pallet. One of the modules probably cracked them under a given load. Now they are planes.
I still have a bunch of planks left too.
Hope you like. Thanks
I recently received a FUNcube dongle SDR for filling in teaching a class. I don’t know much about HAM radio or SDR but I’ve been wanting to learn and now I have a great toy to motivate me to learn.
It took me awhile to get the thing recognized on Lubuntu. Had to add a rule in udev, also had to get qthid2.2 to update the firmware so I could use qthid3.1. Then had to compile quisk and finally started getting lots and lots of static.
Then I started reading more about HAM radio and found about about IF and OF and got far enough to get some garbled non-static from the local NPR station. Then I took a little video on my phone. Then I uploaded it to youtube, then I typed this. So here it is.
Looking forward to spending lots and lots of time learning and playing with this thing.
Maybe by next post I’ll have decoded some telemetry data from an AMSAT. That would be cool.
PLEASE SEE THE NEW BATON ROUGE BUG PAGE, THIS ONE IS SUPER OLD!
—–UPDATE—–
Another great meeting everyone!
Next meeting will be January 21st, 2012 – at the Cajun Clickers HQ – 3:00pm-6:00pm
—–UPDATE-DEC17th—-
Great meeting everyone. I enjoyed sharing Blender with some new folks, and I enjoyed meeting some local BlenderHeads I didn’t know about and as one 3D veteran offered “It’s good to know you’re not in a vacuum.”
December 17th is the date for the next meeting, at the Cajun Clicker HQ. (See below for link to map.)
I’ll probably make another flyer with the new date and send them out so you can send them to anyone you’d like to share Blender with. Or print them and put them up at your school or work or something if that’s appropriate.
I’ll also be working on scheduling a beginners series, and since we had some interest on Game Engine and Texturing we’ll work on putting together some workshops on those too.
So thanks again for the great meeting and feel free to contact me!
—–ORIGINAL POST—–
On November 12, 2011 from 4:00pm – 6:00pm the Baton Rouge Blender User Group will meet at the Cajun Clickers Computer Club. (MAP)
BLENDER USERS
If you’re a Blender user or are interested in learning to use Blender, the free, open-source, 3D content creation suite, then come to this meeting!
Meet other Blender Users in the Baton Rouge area and find out more about the exiting developments in this rapidly growing software!
MEETING TOPICS
At this meeting we will discuss some of the new features in 2.6 and the Google Summer of Code and other branches that include 3D audio, the new photo-realistic rendering engine Cycles, and camera tracking integration in the Tomato branch. We’ll also check out Sintel, and look at some impressive work from Project London.
Baton Rouge area Blender users are encouraged to bring their artwork and demos to show off! Feel free to send it in advance or just bring a thumb drive with some .blends and/or renders.
We will also discuss plans for another Blender introduction class series for beginners and plans for group projects.
MEMBERSHIP
If you use Blender and live in/near Baton Rouge then you’re already a member of the Baton Rouge Blender User Group!
The Cajun Clickers Computer Club offers a wonderful classroom facility for learning Blender and also offers a wide range of other computer related classes.
Blender User Groups members will be encouraged to join the Cajun Clickers Computer Club and enjoy all the classes and opportunities offered for a very reasonable price of $40/year for a whole family.
RSVP
If you plan to attend please let me know through this contact form, or reply to this post, or email. Also if you can’t attend but would like to know about future events, please contact me.
PC’S FOR BLENDER USERS
The system requirements to run Blender are very modest. If you are looking for a PC to run Blender we can work with the CACRC to provide you a PC to be used as capable Blender workstation. The cost may vary depending on need and availability but I will try to arrange for a workable PC (no monitor) for around $180.00. The CACRC has monitors for sale from $60.00. If you are interested in a dual-monitor setup or something specific we can work on that too.
CACRC Blender PC Specs
OpenGL 2.0 Capable Graphics Card
PentiumD 2.8Ghz
2 Gb RAM
80 Gb HDD
Preloaded and tested with Ubuntu Linux and Blender
A class session at the Cajun Clickers.
A NOTE TO ATTENDEES OF THE 2009-2010 CLASSES
If you atteneded these classes and have not heard from me please email me. I am sorry to say I’ve lost some of your email addresses since then so I’d love to hear from you and to get you back on an email list.
Thanks for reading and I hope to see you there. In the meantime and as usual- keep Blending!