Now is the time to join the Computer Society

It's the last week to take advantage of half-year membership pricing. http:// bit.ly/O2AC3D Join this week so you can vote in the election for the local chapter's officers the first week in December or run for office yourself!

Don't forget we have a technical meeting today.

The Aug. 14th Computer Society Tech Talk is at The Box Jelly with HiCapacity.org.
We are joining forces with HiCapacity for this event.
We'll gather at 6pm today and all IEEE members are welcome.
Come check out the cool new Box Jelly and the HiCapacity maker-space!
Learn how to program an LED light strip! This particular LED strip is individually addressable and can make 4 million different colors. If you haven’t seen it in person, it is really impressive! The talk will discuss how to do different cool effects on the LED strip and incorporate data from sensors. We will go over some basic Arduino programming as well to help you get on running quickly. This is the LED strip that we will be using. You do not need to buy one, we will have several there to play with although you may need to share them. If you have an Arduino and/or a laptop please bring them! http://adafruit.com/products/306

Address: 307 Kamani Street Honolulu, HI 96813. Map

.Parking is either on the street or at Sports Authority. Start time is 7pm. You don’t need to print out the tickets. Google street view link: http://goo.gl/maps/r7Cdq
When: Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Where: The Box Jelly – 307a Kamani Street, Honolulu, HI (map)
RSVP: http://hicap-arduino-ledstrip.eventbrite.com

August 14 Technical Meeting at the Jelly Box

The Jelly Box street view

We have as technical meeting Aug. 14, 2012  at The Box Jelly with HiCapacity.org.  We are joining forces with HiCapacity in putting on this meeting.  We'll gather at 6pm Tuesday at 307 Kamani Street Honolulu, HI  96813.  All Computer Society and  IEEE members are welcome. Come check it out and join us.  See their cool new location at The Box Jelly in person with the HiCapacity maker-space!  Here is the link to  The Jelly Box on Google+.

Here's how Matthew of HiCapacity describes it:

"HI Capacity will be going over using an Arduino with a digitally addressable RGB LED strip. The Arduino IDE runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. We will begin with a short Arduino discovery session before we move on to the LED strip. Each strip is 1m long and has 32 LEDs that can display upto 2 million colors per LED. We will be going over how to connect an Arduino to the strip in 1m and 5m lengths. We'll have all the necessary materials and equipment on hand, but everyone is welcome to bring a laptop. Using the strip will require a bit of math but we'll simplify it so that you can get it up and running quickly."

A New Website Competition

IEEE Hawaii Section Online - Our new website competition jointly sponsored by the Hawaii Section and the Hawaii Section Computer Society Chapter.

This competition is open to all Hawaii Section Student Members (as
individuals or in teams). The goal is to create a modern, useful,
secure site to be the online presence for the Hawaii Section.
Templates that comply with the IEEE National guidelines are
available (for Wordpress). Other frameworks are acceptable (such as
Drupal or xAMP+HTML). The judging will be held in November, so
student members should form teams and begin work early in the Fall.
Contact Dave Morse for details: david.morse@ieee.org.

Call for Nominations

The Hawaii Chapter of IEEE Computer Society is calling for nominations so we can have an election of new officers by the end of the year.  Get involved on the local or national level and make IEEE more relevant to your needs and the needs of your colleagues.

On April 25, 2012, we had an excellent dinner meeting with Mr. Walz, President of the Computer Society at Willoughby’s Restaurant in the Ohana Airport Hotel.  Here is his latest message to our members: