{"id":2710,"date":"2011-03-16T05:18:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2011-03-16T05:21:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:21:09","slug":"note-from-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/03\/16\/note-from-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"Note from Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/selenamarie\/5530605815\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5530605815_56e5963765-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"prototype\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5530605815_56e5963765-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5530605815_56e5963765.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to catch a meeting of a new Arduino user group in Nashville last night. That picture above is a prototype of a segway-like machine that uses tilt sensors to turn. (Segways use a handle-twist mechanism to turn.) I spent an hour or so reading through code, and helping identify the various constants we need to pull values for off of the equipment Jay used for his project.<\/p>\n<p>We met at in a building that houses a distillery in a building called the Corsair. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5532076580_be22dd4bc4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5532076580_be22dd4bc4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Corsair building\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5532076580_be22dd4bc4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5532076580_be22dd4bc4.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The person demo&#8217;ing was Jay Settle, a brewmaster who, along with his brother, is a tinkerer. Jay showed some videos of projects like this one: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My firepipe is hot\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pBpc_r3ESQo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also automated the work of distilling by modifying some 1920s-era copper stills with Ardiunos and temperature probes. He <a href=\"http:\/\/web.me.com\/jaysettle\/Jay\/Arduino_Equipped_Still.html\">put together a terrific site<\/a> showing his work on it.  Don&#8217;t miss all of the rest of the projects on the links at the top of the page, including my favorite, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.me.com\/jaysettle\/Jay\/remote_mower.html\">the remote mower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the group is awesome, and you should go! If you know any hackers in Nashville, send them to the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/arduino-group-of-nashville\">mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville is not really known for it&#8217;s hacker culture, but it&#8217;s alive and well and finding its center. I have to think that the BarCampNashville has something to do with that &#8211; giving locals a reason and a deadline for showcasing ideas. Now, more conferences like the <a href=\"http:\/\/phpcon.org\/\">PHP Community Conference<\/a> are picking Nashville. Anyway, I looking forward to seeing what comes next from the Arduino hackers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to catch a meeting of a new Arduino user group in Nashville last night. That picture above is a prototype of a segway-like machine that uses tilt sensors to turn. (Segways use a handle-twist mechanism to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2011\/03\/16\/note-from-nashville\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[429,427,428],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-groups","tag-arduino","tag-jaysettle","tag-nashville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2732,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}