Hi everyone,
I'm a relative newcomer to the PIC-EL group. My main interest is driven by
Amateur Radio and a desire to use the PIC and PIC-EL as a teaching tool in
my Electronics Technology course at the local High School (Santa Barbara, CA
area).
I opted to get the optional toolkit and development tools they
offered.
It was a thoroughly pleasurable training session and gave me a big jump
start into the programming process. In addition to the great support I have
received from Craig (AA0ZZ) with the PIC-EL Project (
http://home.comcast.net/~aa0zz/index.html).
The course was an individual training session and gave me an opportunity to
ask lots of questions.
An offshoot of the time I spent there was to ask if they (instructor, Rob
Stranskey) would be interested in doing a day of courses in the Central coast
area. (Total driving time through LA from Santa Barbara area - round trip
under almost ideal driving conditions was 7 1/2 hours ). He said he would
be comfortable with that idea if we could supply a classroom and some
students. So, we're looking at some time late this year or early next
year, say Dec'07 - April'08 give or take.
If any of you might be interested on a Saturday session which could
include 2 courses, let me know your course preference and I'll start a list of
possible students. I'm pretty sure I can get together a dozen or so
locally and maybe we can add another 20 from SFV and Ventura, San Luis
Obispo Paso Robles etc.
I'm sure you would find it an exciting experience.
Does anyone know of a PIC User group on the North side of LA? I
have to tell you, driving to Orange county from this area is an ordeal, so it'd
be worth it for anyone within 100 miles of SBA.
Usual cost for this sort of event is $49 a course. I'm Thinking of
asking him as a guest speaker at the local radio club meeting (SBARC -
www.sbarc.org ) which would be a 3rd Friday of
the month in evening, followed by classes the next day.
Al Soenke WA6VNN