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LAN Party
Ahoy! The more observant among you might have noticed a LAN party on our calendar for this Saturday night. It’s been a while and we need a way to offload the pent-up holiday rage, so let’s make it happen. We’ll have dinner and games, briefly interrupted by a short tournament. 5:00 – Doors open 6:00…
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HAM Radio Night on Friday
Our next Ham Night will be 1/10/14. I look forward to much participation as we plan out our new Year’s activities. Some of the Topics will include: Field Day 2014 Tower Trailer Project. Upcoming HamFest in Odenton 1/26/14. SDR Project. (We need a coil rolling Night to get this kickstarted again.) Repeater Project. Permanent Tower…
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January Minicon tomorrow 1/4/14
So the time has come, the Minicon is tomorrow starting at 2pm. Currently talk list: Mame Arcade, the trials and tribulations – ItsTonyE Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and clock sychronization – Matt Putting the bio back in Cyber warfare! – Wonko “A Sheep in Wolfs Clothing, lessons learned from a security guy” – Wasabi 3…
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Web Night Cancelled 1/2/14 – Snow
Yep, weather sucks and people’s driving in said weather makes the roads even more unsafe. Web Night is cancelled for this evening. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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Beginner Soldering Class (13 Dec, 7PM)
If you’ve never picked up a soldering iron before, but would like to learn the art of soldering then this class is for you. Buddy has made a generous donation of beginner level soldering kits. There will be 18 kits available on a first come first serve basis. We’ll have soldering irons available as well,…
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FPGA Night (3 Dec, 7-10PM)
We will be implementing a Xilinx divider IP core so that our CPUs can divide. If we finish creating and testing the divider, then we will move on to creating a flags register and implementing addca (add with carry). Please bring a breadboard and jumpers so that we can troubleshoot using the three external IO…
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FPGA Night (26 Nov, 7-10PM)
We had planned on adding division and add w/ carry, but there has been a change. Since the divider opcode took quite a while, we will be covering how to get the divider working from the ground up. This will be done using the ISE simulator and simple test bench code. We will cover the…
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FPGA Night (19 Nov, 7-10PM)
Continue work on our custom CPU. We will be finishing the push and pop opcodes and writing test programs to use them with ret and call. If time permits, we will also create the flags register and a new addition opcode that adds the remainder from the last addition operation. The code is up on…
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FPGA Night (12 Nov, 7-10PM)
We will be adding ‘addca’ to add the carry bit from the last addition operation. Additionally, we will be adding ‘call’ and ‘ret’ statements (along with the required stack information) to enable branching. Please bring a breadboard and jumpers so that we can troubleshoot using the three external IO buses. If you cannot bring those…
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EPIC LAN PARTY NOV 16th (7pm-Midnight)
Usako will be hosting an awesome evening of gaming and fragging and fragging gaming. There may even be a space bridge simulator involved (and if you’re feeling like a bit of extra fun – feel free to come dressed for your role on the ship.) Stay tuned for more details on the exciting possibility of…
