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Dec 10: Don Law's Christmas Lights - On Location at Don's House!

Posted by Adam Glass on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 6:07 PM

IMPORTANT! This month we will be meeting at Don Law's house! Do not go to our usual meeting place!

About the Presentation:

In the summer of 2007 Don Law gave two talks to the FLUX group on how he built Linux-controlled Christmas lights - synchronized to music - using various FOSS (Free Open Source Software) components. (The slides from that presentation are still online at flux.donlaw.com). For the December meeting, Don and Barbara have invited us to meet at their house to enjoy the final product. This is mostly a social event, but Don will give a brief whiteboard talk on the new features that have been added since the last presentation.

The house is located off University Drive, between Broward Blvd and Sunrise Blvd (near Motorola) at 7730 NW 11th Place, Plantation, FL 33322. Directions and a Google map are available at the website for the light show, lights.donlaw.com

Extra parking is available at a vacant lot about 50 yards to the northwest (see diagram on site).

Don Law has been a Unix developer in South Florida since 1984 and has worked on software for mobile phones, mainframes, high availability clusters, operating systems, storage controllers, nuclear power plants, missile simulators, and security appliances. He sometimes modifies his computer systems with a hacksaw. He has been an electronics hobbyist since middle school. To demonstrate his partial lack of sanity, for fun in college he wrote an arbitrary precision arithmetic program in assembly for a 12 instruction single register CPU that required self-modifying code using punch cards. Don has a BS in Math and Computer Science from Furman University and a MS in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and FAU.

Mark your calendar! See you THURSDAY DECEMBER 10th at Don Law's House!