[sdiy] Atlanta SDIY/AH type meeting?

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, john mahoney wrote:

>> My senior-level special topics class proposal, "Theory and Design of Music
>> Synthesizers," has been approved for Spring 2006! Hooray hooray!
>> [snip]
>
> Congratulations, Aaron!
>
> So... Maybe you can get Tech to sponsor an SDIY meeting in early spring?
> Simply to inspire the students, of course! ;-) All we really need is a room
> with a lot of tables and electrical outlets. Think about it, if you please.

Actually, I was thinking of doing something along those lines (I e-mail 
chatted with some folks about the possibility a year or so ago, but never 
had time to give it more thought)...

If I did, what would be a good time to have it that it wouldn't conflict 
with other AH/SDIY type meetings?

I can readily get a space with tables, outlets, etc., and can negotiate a 
hotel block, etc... we also have relationships with various chip vendors, 
I might get some to come out and give talks on their products, etc. Could 
probably talk Marshall Leach into showing off his amplifiers...

I've got 26 students signed up right now at the Atlanta campus. I would 
have more if I didn't require microelectronics (ECE3040, which is 
transistors, op amps, diodes, etc.) as a prereq; I have a lot of students 
in my intro to signal processing class that want to sign up, but they 
haven't seen circuits yet... but I really wanted it to have a heavy 
circuits component, so I had to put the prereq in. (Of course, I barely 
understand transistors myself - I'm a DSP/math guy.) I have several 
students interested in just sitting in to learn stuff - that's almost 
unheard of among undergrads.

GaTech has a Regional Engineering Program, where we send classes via 
video. I have 1 signed up at our Armstrong Atlantic/GTREP campus, and 7 
signed up at our Georgia Southern/GTREP campus. I may go out to Savannah a 
couple times to do hands-on demos, but mostly it will have to go over 
video, which is less than ideal, but they've gotten the two-way video 
links working better than they did the last time I did a video class.

So, that's 34 students signed up so far, which is enough interest that the 
dept. would let me run it again sometime...

- Aaron

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