[ANNOUNCE] LinuxSA October 2006 Meeting

[Geoffrey D. Bennett]

Hi all,

Time for the LinuxSA October Meeting announcement (it's this
Tuesday)...

The usual details:

  When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
          Tuesday, 17th October, 2006
  Where:  Senior Secondary Assessment Board
          of South Australia (SSABSA)
          Boardroom (1st floor)
          60 Greenhill Road
          Wayville SA
  Cost:   FREE
  Who:    Anyone and everyone.
          No pre-registration necessary.

Presentation:

  Geoffrey D. Bennett will be presenting a talk on how to build an
  open-source Segway(R):

    Building a self-balancing scooter like the Segway(R) has
    previously been shown to be "not actually very hard" by Trevor
    Blackwell.  I have replicated his experience by building my own
    two-wheeled self-balancing ride-on robot using only off-the-shelf
    parts, and open-source hardware and software.  Some info, a video,
    and source can be found here:
    http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/meta/

    The presentation will go through how my scooter was built and the
    theory and practicalities of keeping it upright, along with a
    demonstration.

Pizza:

  After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
  Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).

For more information:

  Email:        organisers at linuxsa.org.au
  Web Page:     http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
  Mailing List: linuxsa at linuxsa.org.au

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Geoffrey D. Bennett, RHCE, RHCX               mailto:g at netcraft.com.au
Senior Systems Engineer                          sip:g at netcraft.com.au
NetCraft Australia Pty Ltd        http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/