Sunday Meetup 30th August at the Welshmill Hub

Once again, it’s nearly time for our semi-regular last-Sunday-of-the-month afternoon session! We’ll be meeting from 14:00 til 16:00 on Sunday 30th at the Remakery/Welshmill hub.

Feel free to bring any projects you’re working on, discuss any interesting tech you’ve been looking into, ask questions, or just catch up.

When: 2pm - 4pm Sunday 30th August.

Who: members and prospective members.

Where: The Remakery, upstairs at Welshmill Hub, Park Hill Drive, BA11 2LE . (Park Hill Drive is off Welshmill road, near the Play Park/Bump Track)

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Sending apologies for this month. Unavoidable family BBQ :folded_hands:

Hope to catch you in October!

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I’m going to be away over the bank holiday weekend so I won’t be able to make it to this one, hopefully will see you at the next.

ok! sounds like we might be small quorum this time.

For the September date, we’ll need someone to step up to be keyholder, as I’ll be away…

Quick report on the August meetup - it was small, just three of us, probably in part because it’s the bank holiday weekend.

We discussed 3D printing - Hugo has a new printer which is working well - also helicopters, plane crashes, superguns, humanoid robotics championships, robots in healthcare, the prevalence of scam adverts on youtube.

(Hugo had a thing to show, but I’m not sure if it’s a secret thing, so I’ll leave it to him to comment or not)

I’d set a little programming challenge (on a forum elsewhere) and although I got no takeup, I did manage to write something, so that was a win.

(As you can see, it’s a retrocomputing forum.)

Reading references
Air India Flight 171
Supergun affair
Testing a 777 wing to destruction
Airbus A350 Ultimate Load Wing Stress Test
Weekend coding challenge: Solar Eclipse (this week)
China’s robot games
Sikorsky Aircraft
Autogyro - Wikipedia
Journey to the Moon Jules Verne

Hugo will be the keyholder for the next meet up. Thanks Hugo!

I mentioned that I managed to photograph sunspots during the partial eclipse. It’s all very fuzzy but it worked! Projected with binoculars onto card.

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