Meetings Program and Reports

MEETINGS: Normally 2nd Friday of each month, except Jan (none), Dec and some public holidays.

TIME: 7:00 pm unless advised otherwise.

PLACE: WEA , 223 Angas Street, ADELAIDE unless advised otherwise.

FEES: $5-00 per year due in February.

Future Meetings:

• January 8, 2001 No Meeting.
• February 9, 2001 AGM plus talk on tricks and traps of DVD by Rick Matthews.
• March 9, 2001 Digital TV by Barry Williams and Rob Harman
• April 20, 2001 Digital Photography by Ian Fisk
• May 11, 2001 Linux Update by Mike O'Connor
• June 8, 2001 Telecommunications at the Sydney 2000 Olympics - Rick Matthews
• July 13, 2001 Epixtech iLibrary by Mr Peter Gheude
• August 10, 2001 Teaching programming to 5 year olds (Uni of SA)
• September 14, 2001 Universal Serial Bus (USB)
• October 12, 2001 General Discussion
• November 9, 2001 ADSL by Mr. Simon Hackett of Internode
• December 7, 2001 Intelligent Logic Circuits!! by Mr David Warren Smith
• February 8, 2002 AGM + Atmel Microprocessor Design - Peter Gheude
• March 8, 2002 MP3 music file control designed for radio station use - Mr Howard Harvey
• April 12, 2002 Giving Microelectronics Smell & Taste - Prof Malcolm Haskard
• May 10, 2002 Grid connect solar power systems
• June 14, 2002 Solar Cars - Peter Pudney
• July 12, 2002 Halcro $50,000 Audio Amplifiers - Extraordinary Technology
• August 9, 2002 Sony's Artificial Intelegence Dog "AIBO"
• September 13, 2002 Remedies for Crisis in Electronics Industry/Education by Mr Ron Grill
• October 11, 2002 PHP web scripting by Mr Andrew Braund
• November 8, 2002 Computer Games Development - Ratbags
• December 6, 2002 Tivo Video Recorder
• January, 2003 No Meeting
• February 14, 2003 AGM and Viruses, Malicious Code, Hacking, & members experiences
• March 14, 2003 Analog TV Revision & Intro to Digital TV, Macrovision - Howard Harvey
• April 11, 2003 Visit to Levels FedSat Satellite Control Centre
• May 4, 2003 Running the Penalva ISP - Clive Pearson
• June 13, 2003 Atmel Microcontrollers.
• July 11, 2003 Electric Bikes/Cars - PIC Group
• August 8, 2003 Wide area wireless networking - Air Stream
• September 12, 2003 Fighting Spam Email
• October 10, 2003 PicAxe MicroController - Eric Patching
• November 14, 2003 WiFi, Citilan, PICAXE, Linux, robotics, solar cars, electric bikes etc
• December 5, 2003 RatBag Games - an update on their computer games
• January, 2004 No Meeting
• February 13, 2004 AGM and protecting intellectual property by Kevin Mc Namara
• March 12, 2004 Tarong Wind Farm Development at Starfish Hill - Jeff Ware
• April 16, 2004 ETSA's Playford Museum Visit
• May 14, 2004 Australian Microelectronics Network and Spider Silicon Ltd
• June 11, 2004 Video Editing
• July 9, 2004 Video Editing (Continued)
• August 13, 2004 Cliff's trip
• September 10, 2004 Programming with VBA etc.
• October 8, 2004 Introduction to C programming and possibly some Java and PHP.
• November 12, 2004 Knoppix 3.6 from a "live CD" and getting a simple test program to work.
• December 3, 2004 Programming continued - Knoppix 3.6 from a "live CD" and getting a simple test program to work.
• January, 2005 No Meeting
• February 11, 2005 AGM and Podcasting MP3 players etc
• March 11, 2005 Radio Controlled Electrically Powered Model Aircraft
• April 8, 2005 Broadcasting Techniques, especially Digital TV and Radio Broadcasting
• May 13, 2005 TBA
• June 10, 2005 GPS: review of lots of good theory and plenty of software on the net
• July 8, 2005 Scienceweek test run plus other possibly including Voice over IP
• August 12, 2005 National Science Week
• September 9, 2005 Nanotechnology visit to Flinders University
• October 14, 2005 Spyware and some other coding such as modifying dates on Windows files.
• November 11, 2005 Steganography and some other coding such as modifying dates on Windows files.
• December 2, 2005 Wireless networking.
• January, 2006 TBA
• February 10, 2006 AGM and Voice over IP (VoIP)
• March 10, 2006 Maths Tricks
• April 21, 2006 APANA presentation
• May 12, 2006 Very low light-level remote-controlled security camera demo.
• June 9, 2006 Electronic Printing by Research Labs Aust.
• July 14, 2006 MIME (email encoding/decoding) code breaking & other security issues.
• August 11, 2006 HP iPAQ
• September 8, 2006 Ajax
• October 13, 2006 Visit to radio station 5MBS, 99.9.MHz
• November 10, 2006 PCB CAD Software
• December 1, 2006 BBC Electronic Music
• January, 2007 No Meeting
• February 9, 2007 AGM + Transit of Venus properly described
• March 9, 2007 Developments in detecting and removing malware
• April 13, 2007 Beyond PICAXE - Programming PICs in C
• May 11, 2007 No meeting
• June 8, 2007 Next G^TM network
• July 13, 2007 No meeting
• August 10, 2007 Amazing Recent Linux Developments.
• September 14, 2007 And now a segue to a Segway
• October 12, 2007 Group project discussion
• November 9, 2007 ADSL at the telphone exchange end
• December 7, 2007 Short talks
• January 11, 2008 No Meeting
• February 8, 2008 AGM +
• March 14, 2008 ELECTRIC CARS - TALK & DEMO.
• April 11, 2008 Peter Reed explained the Capacitor Paradox
• May 9, 2008 MAY 9 MEETING - FUEL CELLS
• June 13, 2008 TBA
• July 11, 2008 TBA
• August 8, 2008 TBA
• September 12, 2008 TBA
• October 10, 2008 TBA
• November 14, 2008 TBA
• December 12, 2008 TBA
• January 11, 2009 No Meeting
• February 13, 2009 AGM +
• March 13, 2009 Virtualization
• April 10, 2009 No Meeting (Easter)
• May 8, 2009 David Tilbrooke's talk on Turing Machines
• June 12, 2008 Ian Fisk will talk on Python
• July 10, 2009 -
• August 14, 2009 TBA
• September 11, 2009 TBA
• October 9, 2009 TBA
• November 13, 2009 TBA
• December 11, 2009 TBA
• January 11, 2010 No Meeting
• February 13, 2010 AGM +
• March 13, 2010 TBA
• April 10, 2010 TBA
• May 8, 2010 TBA
• June 12, 2010 TBA
• July 10, 2010 -
• August 14, 2010 TBA
• September 11, 2010 TBA
• October 9, 2010 TBA
• November 13, 2010 TBA
• December 11, 2010 TBA

Future meeting possibilities:

• Weather Satellites, Malicious Code,WiFi Antennas Embedded Computer Systems - JED (Melbourne) using Internet Video Conferencing MP3's, CD/DVD, PIC, Scitec Voice/IP, Legend SMD/Boards, Cable/ATM/Frame Relay, technical details of CU See Me/IRC, Multimedia developments, Advanced Web authoring/editoring, image compression formats, Games night, New Phillip's PLD's, Speech enabled Word processing, Adelaide Uni Music Centre revisit, Apple machines demo (power MAC etc), Sound Blaster, wearables.unisa.edu.au (David)

Past Meetings (R indicates that there is a report on the meeting)

• 2000
• December 8 No Meeting.
• November 10 Development of special alarms for the aged and physically disabled
• October 13 Programmable Logic Devices
• September 8 No Meeting
• August 11 Modem troubleshooting and MOLDS testing.
• July 14 No Meeting
• June 9 No Meeting
• May 12 Modem troubleshooting and Internet connectivity by Mr Colin Huckel.
• April 14 Sneak Preview - Red Cross Opportunity Shop
• March 10 Introduction to Web servers, HTML and XML.
• February 11 AGM plus discussion of Club projects.
• 1999
• December 10 Zatec - PIC microcontroller family by Jason Moss.
• November 12 Integrated Electronic Systems - IC Wafer fabrication, Short run and prototyping.
• October 8 Web controlled camera mounted at Ngapartji by Dave Sag
• September 10 Member experiences with Linux.
• August 13 C++ Builder and POP and SMTP email protocols by SAMG members.

• July 9 CAE MRAD; PCI bus DSP board and Linux Drivers

• June 11 Electronic labelling system for baggage, equipment, vehicle and people tracking

• May 24 Capri Theatre computer controlled Wurlitzer organ

• April 9 Clipsal C-Bus energy management system by Mr. Barry Walker

• March 12 - The Automation of Wool Sorting and Classing by Mr Mike O'Connor.
• February 12 - AGM plus Satellite Phones by Mr P. Gheude.
• 1998
• December 4 - Webworms - Software for Kids, Pam Fitzgerald
• November 13 - MineLab - Metal Detectors, Mine detection etc
• Oct 9 - Satellite Communications by Prof. Steve Seumahu
• Sep 11 - GNU Linux OS by Mr Geoffery Bennet of LinuxSA
• August 14 - Surface Wave Radar , John Wilson-Smith
• Jul 10 - Programming with Visual Basic , Aust Visual Basic Users Group SA  
• Jun 12 - Ngapartji MSN9 hosting and Microsoft - Mr Brian Jarman.
• May 8 - Mapping Systems, GPS aware - Anthony Stephens and Mike Brinkworth from The Map Shop.
• Apr 3 - Encryption by Rick Matthews and Andrew Braund
• Mar 13 - Life and Communications in the Antarctic - Mark Spooner - Gilles St School
• Feb 20 AGM PLUS Mawson Lakes & Smart Cards : High Tech City - Tony Leverenz 
• 1997

• Dec 5 - Dove ISP - Bob Rooney

• Nov 14 - Telemedicine - Bob Hancock / Kevin Zeitz at the RAH 
• Oct 10 - PIC Micro-Controllers by Eric Patching
• Sep 12 - Magneto Resonant Imaging at RAH
• Aug 8 - Traffic Control System at Department of Transport Control Centre
• Jul 11 - Year 2000 problems by Howard Harvey
• Jun 11 - Motorola DSP chips by J Eccleston, Motorola Scotland
• May 9 - Introduction to Delphi programming by Cliff Hignett
• Apr 11 - Introduction to Java programming by Andrew Braund
• Mar 14 - Networked computing system, Radio LANs and links by ADC.
• Feb 14 - AGM, plus Internet Web authoring by Kirt Hignett
• 1996
• Dec 6 - Motorola Software; Communications and Real Time systems plus hardware software!
• Nov 8 - Rockets by Dwight Van Roy and Colin Biggs at the Box Factory.
• Oct 11 - Video/Audio conferencing over networks by John Ingham at Adelaide TAFE.
• Sep 13 - Programmable Logic Devices by David Warren-Smith at the Box Factory.
• Aug 9 - Electronics in Music by Chris Cumming at Future Music 55 Belair Rd. Kingswood.
• Jul 12 - Packet Radio by Grant Willis
• Jun 14 - Camtech, Internet Service Provider by Mr Neil Collins and Mr Iain Lockyer
• May 10 - The Internet by Beavis Mead
• Apr 12 - Robotics by Rick Matthews