GatorLUG - Hackerspace, Electric Cars

Event Details

GatorLUG - Hackerspace, Electric Cars

Time: June 17, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: Virtually Cuban
Street: 409 Southwest 13th Street
City/Town: Gainesville, FL
Website or Map: http://www.gatorlug.org/node/…
Phone: clintc@bebr.ufl.edu
Event Type: meeting
Organized By: Clinton Collins
Latest Activity: Jun 12, 2009

Export to Outlook or iCal (.ics)

Event Description

(Photo from the Maker Faire '09, Oakland, CA - it's a Tesla!)

GatorLUG Meeting Agenda for June 17, 2009

6:00 - 6:20 Announcements / General Discussion

Palm Pre (Did you get one?)

Hackerspace Update - skillhouse.org

6:20 - 7:40 Presentation - Building An Electric Car | Joseph DiPietro,
Richard Johnson

Southern Electric Cars is a local company right here in Gainesville,
Florida. They do custom electric conversions on your vehicle. These
gentlemen will be at the next meeting to give a presentation on Electric
Vehicle (EV) conversions and answer questions. They will bring their
most recent conversion vehicle for inspection.

Joseph M. DiPietro
An electrical engineer with more than 30-years of experience in
high-power electrical design, fabrication and repair.

Richard A. Johnson
A master fabricator with more than 30-years of experience. As owner of
Chassis Dynamics he specialized in customizing, modifying and building
street and high-performance automobiles.

More information about Southern Electric Cars here:

http://www.southernelectriccars.com/


7:40 - 8:00 Tech Talk - all you can eat!

See you there,

Clinton Collins, President
GatorLUG, Gainesville, Florida
http://www.gatorlug.org

Comment Wall

Comment

RSVP for GatorLUG - Hackerspace, Electric Cars to add comments!

Join Codetown

Attending (1)

Happy 10th year, JCertif!

Notes

Welcome to Codetown!

Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.

When you create a profile for yourself you get a personal page automatically. That's where you can be creative and do your own thing. People who want to get to know you will click on your name or picture and…
Continue

Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.

Looking for Jobs or Staff?

Check out the Codetown Jobs group.

 

Enjoy the site? Support Codetown with your donation.



InfoQ Reading List

Podcast: Building the Muscles for Critical Thinking

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dannielle Pearson about the importance of critical thinking in technology.

By Dannielle Pearson

.NET Aspire Preview 6: Enhanced Security and Testing, New Features, and More

This week Microsoft released Preview 6 of the .NET Aspire project. Significant changes have been implemented to enhance the security and reliability of the platform. This release, version 8.0.0-preview.6.24214.1, introduces several noteworthy additions, like changes related to templates, components, dashboard, testing and more.

By Almir Vuk

Presentation: Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla

Lily Mara, Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it.

By Lily Mara, Hunter Laine

Article: Is Your Test Suite Brittle? Maybe It’s Too DRY

One important design principle in software development is DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself. However, when DRY is applied to test code, it can cause the test suite to become brittle — difficult to understand, maintain, and change. In this article, I will present some indications that a test suite is brittle, guidelines to follow when reducing duplication in tests, and better ways to DRY up tests.

By Kimberly Hendrick

Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% After Switching to XFS

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

By Rafal Gancarz

© 2024   Created by Michael Levin.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service